See Inside King Tiger | Tank Chats Reloaded

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Going into a tank war!?!!! Eff that!! Why do you think the navy exists??

If these weapons had been deployed above the D-Day beaches on 6th June 1944 the landings might have been seriously challenged. Hitler was the only person who could release their deployment but fortunately he was sound asleep at this critical moment and no one dared wake him!

Love these more in depth chats. Look forward to more of them

1st Tank Bn,1st Marines here. We had M-48's in the 70's,but it'd be a helluva fight between an M-48 and a Tiger. The Tiger was very advanced.

You have to wonder how much better the Germans could have done in the late stages of the war if they had just concentrated on producing Panthers.

There is one at Le Gleize Belgium….where Pieper gave up the fight and stumbled his way back to German lines at the Bulge

I used to be a Kings Tiger 2 Crewman in War thunder. Let me tell you the things ive seen… the tiger offers great survivability. We would put fear through the boots of our enemies by the rattling of the ground whenever our beasts would enter the Objectives…

The French musée des blindés has started a donation campaign to fund the restoration of their Tiger I. They own the only running Tiger II so they know their stuff. The goal is to make it a runner ! It's the most original Tiger in the world (engine, transmission, tracks, the lot !). I can't link here, it but if anyone wants to help go to "Ulule"'s website and search for tiger tank. We're at 34 000 euros as of 11/30, and need at least 150 000 to make it run. Thank you to anyone who will donate !

Does best engineer and designation during World War Two history? I believed so!!!! Fantastic things as armor materials!!!

The problem with German war machine, imhao, is the fact that they had waaaay too many different weapons to produce, with what ever this means! Something that is not efficient during war!
Also, tanks like Tiger II, was developed during war and was not fully tested, as it should, or better say, they had NO proper engine or other secondary systems at the time to carry that weight without problems.
Now, if they had like 5 years, before the War to develop those tanks proper, and focus on producing a specific number of different models (cause in the end, quantity is what won the war, NOT quality), this would have been a HUUUGE problem for the "Allies". Just imagine this: Instead of various small tanks, not very efffective, having double or triple the numbers of a Tiger 1 model (NO King Tiger), more adavanced than what they actually produced.😉

I love this and everything about tanks but there's just one thing i have to point out. If i hear 1 more person call a jagdpanzer 38t a HETZER, I might just slap them in the face. Not one person during the entirety of ww2 called it a HETZER. Not even in any german tank records was it call a HETZER. Just ask the Chieftain. He rants about this too. For the love of god everyone, please just stop calling it a HETZER just a Jagdpanzer 38t.

Chris does a great job. The one area where the Germans were leaders was in optical quality and tech. Leitz, Leica and Zeiss lenses, sights, rangefinders etc had given the Kreigsmarine an edge of sorts over the Royal Navy during WW1 in WW2 tank sights and optics wete superb especially compared to the Soviets. Post WW2 Stalin seized the Leica and Zeiss works, factories, workers and machine tools and shipped them all to the USSR as reparations.
These factories went on to produce optics gor the Soviet military but also kept manufacturing the superb pre war consumer cameras. As a result, Zeiss and Leica lenses were made, branded with names like 'Jupiter' up until the 1980s. These lenses are still available sevind hand and take superb photos when mounted on a modern digital chassis. Fujifilm X series cameras are an ideal match.

The barrel is bent and crooked on the first tanks @0.11

Thank you for this informative and interesting post!

In fact, I can't understand why the Allies still held on to their clearly inferior tanks. Z. For example, the M4 has a kill-to-loss ratio of 2:1, the M18 Hellcat 2.4:1, the Tiger I 5.5:1, the Tiger II even 6:1, the Jadgpanzer 38 "Hetzer" 9:1, the "Elefant" 10:1 and the Sturmgeschütz III an incredible 16:1!

They paid for this decision with human lives. Of course, the tactics were different, but the fact that they were able to refuse to build a tank that was at least equal in all aspects is what I would call quite a waste of trained personnel.

It's kinda of a catch 22. For so much great engineering and design the tiger just wasn't effective enough.

"Taken out" - where?

Allied tank crews were not bothered about the Tiger 1 at all. It did not exist.
It was the Tiger, still is.

That's a big boy😮

How much times is he going to say "um"....my pet peeve

“See inside the King Tiger”. Proceeds to waste half the video on the exterior

I'm making a kit with interior.I wanted to see more of the interior paint scheme.

It may have been a waste of resources considering Germany's situation in the war, but GOD it looks cool

The Germans had the best, most complicated war machines about. Fastest firing machine gun. First operational fight jet, biggest tanks v1 and V2 rockets which went on to become nuclear bombs. They paved the way through war to live on in future country's through innovation

If only porshe put all his resources into making more powerful regular engines instead of this complicated expensive fantasy.

Imagine having this in your garage…….you will have very friendly neighbors :3

Men want one thing and it's absolutely disgusting.

"Time for the field trip to the Tank Museum!"

Great episode and wonderful to see the Porsche/Henschel myth (if that’s the correct term) properly explained and debunked.

Just one slight correction though, Tiger 213 at La Gleize didn’t run out of fuel. Whilst true Peiper’s supply lines were cut and most vehicles did, 213 was knocked out by Sherman’s of the 3rd US Armored Div when it’s front third of the barrel was shot away.
It was moved by US engineers to its current place in the spring/summer of 1945 when they were tidying up the battlefield and was purchased from the Americans for the village at the cost of a bottle of Cognac!

Great information! Very well made video, definitely a sight to see eve with him saying “um” well over a 150 times

Absolute beast of a tank.

In practical terms, it was a waste of resources. Germany was doing poorly by the end of the war and they needed reliable quantity, not quality. Hitler got obsessed with his pet projects.
It must have been pretty intimidating, though. Like a steelclad knight on the battlefield.

the problem with the king tiger was, that, at the time they produced him, the steel they could use, was not of the quality of that of the tiger 1. hence, even if the shell, that hit the king tiger, could not penetrate its hull, the shock wave produced by the shell hitting the hull of the king tiger caused splinter of steel flying around in the interior of the tank, being life-dangerous for the crew.

The crew must have drawn straws to fire that cannon with the recoil cylinders drained when abandoning it! I know I wouldn't want to be in that turret when that happened -- yikes!

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The Tiger is a monument to Hitler's focus on size. He wanted bigger and bigger everything. Some of the planes he had built were enormous and of course, Gustav the largest cannon ever built, and the two monster battleships. As it turned out if they had produced more Panzers of the latest design they would have been a lot more formidable. What's really a shame is the waste of German inventions and technology that could have been used for its own people and the wealth of the country.

The rear turret door is also for removing the main gun

Fascinating.

the interior of this tank is clean and looks amazing

Germany should get all its relics back, every other peoples want their stuff back so Germany should get all it’s made stuff back.

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Did the tank coming thru the trees at 0.16 have a bent barrel?

Tiger-II, aka: the Crap-yer-pants and run away from it-Wagen!

Love Bovvy - try to get down there at least once a year when we're visiting my brother in law in Blandford.

New tanks dont seem that intimidating then the good old ww2 tanks.

The Tank Chats Reloaded is always a great in-depth with narrator Chris leading it.

These chats which is such a important part of the overall experience here, Chris makes that go by too quickly means it isn’t long enough Tank Museum?

Can this tank resist a javelin missile?
Ore is it to weak for that?

Now i know the King Tigers weakspots

They would still be bigger than the biggest farm equipment made in 2023.