A Controversial Opinion on Tiger

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  @blumpfreyfranks8863 · 7 years ago (edited)

  How about a family favourite as a T-shirt<br><br>&quot;Oh my god, the tank is on fire&quot;

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• TH

  @Thunderplunk · 7 years ago

  I would absolutely buy a mug with &quot;Oh bugger, the tank is on fire&quot; on it.

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• AF

  @AFnord · 7 years ago (edited)

  I suspect that part of the Tiger hate is more of a response to the tiger worshiping that came before it. After having been hyped up to the skies, people started realizing that it really did not deserve all the hype, and then instead of going &quot;well, it might not be the best thing ever, but it had its strengths&quot; it suddenly turned into trash in their minds. Opposite to what happened with the French tanks. After having been known as &quot;trash&quot; for a long time, people realized that they had some strengths, and suddenly they were the best things ever (hint: they were not, but some of them had rather thick armour, so they were not easy to knock out if you were shooting at them from the front).

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• YO

  @YouTubeIsRunByMarxists · 2 years ago

  You need to sell Chieftain Action Figures. 12&quot; and 5&quot; models. The &nbsp;12&quot; model will have a pull string and say up to 200 Chieftain Things, such as &quot;Oh, bugger,&quot; &quot;Significant Emotional Event,&quot; and &quot;Here is the oil reservoir, which for this model holds 6 gallons of 5w-30 oil...&quot;

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• JO

  @jordananderson2728 · 7 years ago

  The Tiger, when used as designed, was exceptional. The issue with the Tiger in &apos;44 onwards was that it couldn&apos;t be used in its design capacity, as Germany was doing the magical thing of &quot;losing&quot;. A lot.<br>Have I about got it?

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• AG

  @aggopian · 7 years ago

  Porsche Tiger tank image with caption:<br>Fahrvergnugen! (your mileage may vary)

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• NO

  @Novous · 6 years ago

  &quot;Controversial opinion: The Germans lost WW2.&quot; &nbsp; &nbsp;[fleet of angry armchair warriors take to their keyboards.]

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• AL

  @alvaroasi · 7 years ago

  I have the book &quot;Tigers in the mud&quot; and think that Carius will agree with you.<br><br>He says that the Tiger was a &quot;mobile pillbox&quot; that was sent from the biggest emergency &nbsp;to the next new really big one emergency... and as you say, that was not the design concept.

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• CL

  @cleanerben9636 · 7 years ago

  Controversial Tiger opinion ooooo ima get my popcorn Chief.

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• TA

  @tankolad · 7 years ago

  It&apos;s great that Operation Think Tank is still a relevant resource for insights from all the big tank historians, but it&apos;s a shame that it&apos;s the only one of its kind. Why isn&apos;t there an Operation Think Tank 2?

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• TH

  @thomasellysonting3554 · 7 years ago

  Exactly. If people want to see how a Tiger should be used, they need to look at Third Kharkov and Kursk where the Tiger battalions were used as intended to batter holes through defense lines still largely reliant on 45mm ATG.<br><br>Instead all the Internet warriors keep citing fairy tale tank vs tank battles in 1944 that the Tiger fought against imaginary allied tank units, when in reality the guys taking on the Shermans and T-34s were primarily Panzerjager and Stug units that were designed to take on masses of enemy armor. And sure, a Nashorn may have paper thin armor, but the best armor is a camouflaged ambush position in the first place.

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• RR

  @rrobb9853 · 7 years ago (edited)

  Something that we should bear in mind is that these weapons (all weapons) were not used in isolation. The wider context of infantry, artillery and air support [tactically]; operational planning and decisions; and sheer numbers, is sometimes overlooked in a direct &apos;Let&apos;s compare tank A to tank B&apos; contest.<br>In Russia - where the majority of Tigers were deployed - there was more wrong in the German plans, numbers, decisions, etc than one tank design - even a very good tank - could solve.<br>Great video as usual. Thank you.

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