Heaviest Burden | Jagdtiger (Sd.Kfz.186)
56K views · Feb 4, 2024 · Education
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@brennanleadbetter9708 · 2 years ago
“Hans, we need a better transmission”<br>“More armor, you say?”<br>“Nein, better transmission”<br>“Bigger Kannon you say?”<br>“Goddamnit Hans”
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@dannyzero692 · 2 years ago
The mere fact that the latest Challenger III variant with all the electronics and armor packages have reached the Jadgtiger's weight just shows you how heavy this thing was, Germany didn't even have the logistical support necessary to supply their smaller tanks with spares and gas yet they still venture on with even crazier project like the Maus.
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@sonanerikov1 · 2 years ago (edited)
"Jagdtiger, Tortoise, T95, they were known as the <b>big</b> three!"
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@FrankJmClarke · 2 years ago
Interesting to see the machine guns being removed on surrender, I often wondered about the lack of MG on museum pieces.
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@seanmckenna228 · 2 years ago
Fuel though.......
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@anthonysabine823 · 2 years ago
With better engines and transmissions, this could have been an awsome fighting vehicle
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@mattbowden4996 · 2 years ago (edited)
When evaluating the Jagdtiger, one needs to remember the Germans were not planning on losing in 1945. Although obviously a failure, the Jadgtiger was a fairly logical development in the gun/armour arms race of the late war. We know that the Soviets were set to introduce the IS-3 and that the western allies were developing heavy assault guns like the T28 and Tortoise which they had every intention of fielding if progress into Germany had proved more difficult. The Germans would not have known the precise details of these vehicles but they must have suspected that something of their ilk was in the pipeline and likely to be fielded before 1946 came around, so the Jadgtiger makes sense as an attempt to stay ahead of the arms race.<br><br>Again, there's no dispute that the vehicle was a failure - but the notion that it was a completely irrational and unnecessary development bears reconsideration.
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@viking4130 · 2 years ago
When commander Otto Carius surrendered his platoon of Jadgtigers it was caught on film. The looks on the American soldiers faces was shock, terror.
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@johnlansing2902 · 2 years ago
Weight ….. the effort necessary to move it over rivers would have caused it to be a logistical nightmare .
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@GaZ-204 · 2 years ago
Improving the Elephants could have been a wiser decision, probably, or just making jadgpanthers and stugs, just from my experience playing Panzercorps.
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@josephpercente8377 · 2 years ago
Read tigers in the mud. The author commanded a unit of these.
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@tekis0 · 2 years ago
Respectfully, I think that the JagdPanther filled the same role and was much more practical. Or, alternately, how many Stug IV's, Jagdpanzer, Panthers, or Mk IV's could've been manufactured instead; all with "off the shelf" parts.
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