See Inside King Tiger | Tank Chats Reloaded

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  @thetankmuseum · 3 years ago · pinned

  Hi Tank Nuts, we hope you enjoyed seeing inside King Tiger. Let us know in the comments below what tank interiors you'd like to see next!

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  @michaelbruce6190 · 3 years ago (edited)

  I was a 19K tank crewman on the M1A1 Abrams and I tell you what man.....the King Tiger was a hell of a lot more intimidating in every way than an Abrams....that absolutely beautiful Panzer was an absolute beast, from the end connectors up to the muzzle brake.....OUCH! Yes, the transmission, engine, and final drive problems were a major part of it's downfall, but I can't even imagine being a Allied tanker and coming up against this monster in any aspect, especially with that laser beam gun.....but that was very true of most German tanks and the guns they mounted........the 88 in all it's iterations was just stupid deadly....can't even imagine it if they had gotten up to mounting the KwK L/68 105mm. Also, the Tiger 2 never approached 850,000 Reichsmarks, the vehicle averaged a cost of around 322,000 Reichsmarks, a little more for command vehicles. The only tank the Germans had that would scare me more was the Jagdpanther...that thing had a gun just as big as the Tiger II, but was a friggen sports car compared to it's bigger brother....and don't even get me started on the smaller killing machines StuG and Hetzer.

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  @NurkePL · 1 year ago

  Many years ago I was at a tank day at Bovvy, you had a Sherman being driven arount the ring and there was an older gentleman on the commanders cupola, he was apparently in WW2 on the Sherman's, he was telling us that the problem with the Sherman when facing a Tiger was that 'We were firing 'these' at them (holds up a Sherman round) and they were firing 'THESE' at us (holds up up an 88 round next to it) The size difference was staggering!

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  @RexsHangar · 3 years ago

  Counting down the days until I fly to the UK and finally see this thing again, it has been YEARS

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  @thomascolbert2687 · 3 years ago

  I met a fellow who fought in Pattons army. He commanded &nbsp;a half track with howitzer mounted to it. He said he had a Royal Tiger cross his &quot;T&quot; at about 400 yards. It was going fast, all buttoned down.<br>He said they laid shells on it, but they bounced off. He figured they were either out of ammo, or low on fuel, or both. Otherwise, it could have easily knocked them out.

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  @nakotaapache4674 · 3 years ago

  my Grandpa was driver of that kind of vehicle. He told me he survived five tiger tanks. He has driven bicycles, Trucks, Tiger and King Tiger at the east front. He was about one year in sovjet prison before he came back and has founded a family where a my mother is from.

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  @jimleffler7976 · 2 years ago

  I&apos;m not a little man ,but I stood in front of one of these when the Patton Museum in Ft Knox had one, and it was a behemoth. Ungodly. I think it had more of the purplish looking camo on it and they had made a cutaway covered in lexan so you could get a side view of what it looked like inside... incredible

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  @MaxTSanches · 3 years ago

  First time I saw this tank at The Tank Museum I was amazed at how tall it was. &nbsp;It was about six foot to the front deck. &nbsp;Massive!

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  @vikingpowered868 · 3 years ago

  As a side note: In the video you can see clips of King Tiger 300. You can read about King Tiger 300, 313 and 314 in the memoirs of panzer commander Richard von Rosen in &apos;Panzer Ace&apos;.

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  @ddraig1957 · 3 years ago

  The King Tiger really does have a presence. You could almost imagine it operating without a crew like a very big proto-Terminator.

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  @jammiedodger629 · 3 years ago

  It might sound daft, but I&apos;m looking at the quality of the welds on the interior as Chris gives his talk. for an industrial high output and mass produced bit of kit, they actually look like they&apos;ve been done by machine, but as far as I know they were done by hand, so that is some pretty damn high quality ARC welding done in the factories.

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• VV

  @vvr881 · 3 years ago

  Check out the intro...the one tank has a bent barrel as it comes out the forest

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