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The Tiger I ( German: [ˈtiːɡɐ] ⓘ) was a German heavy tank of World War II that operated beginning in 1942 in Africa and in the Soviet Union, usually in independent heavy tank battalions.
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The common name of Nazi Germany's heavy tank is "Tiger II" but it is also known under the informal name Königstiger, which often is translated as Royal Tiger, or somewhat incorrectly as King Tiger by the Allied soldiers.
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The Tiger (II) was the heaviest tank used during World War Two, weighing 57 tons, and its engine was so powerful that it could keep pace with tanks less than half its weight, at 40 kph. However, this weight posed a problem when crossing bridges. Early Tigers were fitted with a snorkel allowing them to cross rivers up to a 13 feet depth, though.
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Among the best known tanks of the Second World War, the German Tiger and the American Sherman tanks have since become icons of armored warfare and the subject of many a heated argument between enthusiasts of the subject. By Seth Marshall. During the Second World War, dozens of tank designs were developed by all of the major combatants in the.
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The Tiger II was a German heavy tank of the Second World War. The final official German designation was Panzerkampfwagen Tiger Ausf. B, [notes 1] often shortened to Tiger B. [8] The ordnance inventory designation was Sd.Kfz. 182. [8] ( Sd.Kfz. 267 and 268 for command vehicles).
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Tiger II or 'Konigstiger' (King Tiger) was first used during the Normandy campaign in 1944 and was the most powerful tank on the battlefield at that time. Known variously as the Tiger Ausf.
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And yet, the first Tiger II tanks were still built before the turn of 1944. The first prototype, V1, was completed in October, followed by V2 and V3 in December. Series production started in January, but ongoing problems with the new Olvar B transmission, kept Henschel struggling to meet their Tiger II quotas.
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The Panzerkampfwagen VI Tiger tank was a German heavy tank that served on the Eastern Front, Western Front, and in North Africa during World War II. The final version of the tank weighed.
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The commander's cupola began to be bolted, rather than welded, onto the turret, beginning in August 1944. The weld seam, a prominent feature on earlier models, obviously is absent from the tanks with the cupola bolted in place. That same month, Tiger II tanks started to roll off the assembly line wearing a three-color factory camouflage scheme.
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The Tiger II, also known as the King Tiger, Royal Tiger, Königstiger, and Tiger Ausf.B, was an enormous, 69.8 tonne German heavy tank. Clad in armor between 25 mm and 180 mm thick and armed with deadly 88mm KwK 43 L/71 gun, the Tiger II was one of the deadliest tanks of the Second World War.
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The Tiger II, on the other hand, was the VK45.03 (H), making it the third design. The missing step is therefore obvious when understood in these terms: VK45.02 (H) - the second design for a 45 tonnes vehicle from Henschel. So what was this mysterious vehicle and what did it look like? April to October 1942
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The tank took out the Tiger II first - also hitting their old Sherman as it was still stuck to the former. The Germans fired back, so Gorman gathered his surviving crew and retreated. The Military Cross Photo Credit. He received the Military Cross. He was also awarded the French Croix de Guerre, but that is another story.
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The Tiger II, often referred to as the King Tiger or even Bengal Tiger (Königstiger) was the largest and heaviest operational tank fielded by the German Army in WW2. Developed as a replacement for the Tiger I, its role was to be the heavy tank capable of breaking through an enemy line and smashing their defenses and tanks in the process.
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The Tiger II was an extremely powerful tank combining heavy armour (virtually impenetrable front armour) and a lethal 88mm gun, but it was slow to build and very difficult to maintain. As the Germans started to concentrate on building only two tank types by autumn 1944, the Panther became the main production model as two could be built for.
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The most massive and heavily armored tank of World War II was the Panzerkampfwagen VI Tiger II (military designation, SdKfz 182), which the Nazi Germans called the Königstiger (King Tiger) and the British termed the Royal Tiger.