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The Herman Jagtiger tank destroyer was the heaviest armored vehicle produced during World War II. It weighed 72 tons and had a 128 mm gun. It was powered by an engine originally intended for a Tiger I tank.
The engine, powerful as it was, was the Jagtiger’s weakness – it was too weak for this massive vehicle. It was assigned to only two units, the 653rd, and 512th Heavy Panzerjäger Battalion, and only 80 were built.
The 512th Battalion was formed at Dollersheim in February 1945, with 20 tank destroyers. By 1945, the Allies were invading Germany itself, both from the east and the west, and the Germans needed powerful weapons to resist the Allied tanks.
It fought at the Battle of Remagen in 1945 and fought successfully, though it took ten days to reach the front on account of communication breakdowns and plane attacks.
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Another dumb ass that thinks the Nazi's should have won "'Cause dey had beeter weepons or sumtin'" First German WW2 tanks SUCKED. They had great guns. So So ammunition, LOUSY drive trains, tracks, boggies and sprockets. The armor was just awful. Often shattering like glass , when hit with HVAPDS, (yes we has them in ww2) or other Kinetic Energy rounds. The engines were worthless with a + 60% fail rate OUTSIDE combat. The Germans had NO recovery to speak of. So lost armor was lost forever. The Germans built one tank for every 400 American tanks, and if you factor in The Britts and Russians that rises to one German tank built to 4000 allied tanks. Two. Neo Nazis are for the most part idiot fan boys of one of the worst performing military's in history. An army that lost 90% of its battles after 1941 and was 90% horse drawn and foot marching in 1939, and 99% horse drawn and on foot six years later when they LOST. Your boy is trapped in a child's fantasy of a German army that wasn't real. What has always amazed me is that they lasted as long as they did with the tiny handful of modern weapons tacked onto an antique, horse drawn , 19th century army--Ray
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DeleteMore than one article has mentioned that Germany would have been better off not not going for bigger/better tanks as they could have produced many more tanks comparable to the allies' inventory. That said "the King Tiger was superior to nearly every Allied or Soviet tank in a one-on-one confrontation, but poor mobility, speed and reliability limited its use."
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one of the worst performing military's in history.
I don't agree and they were fighting 1/2 the world.
The German army was in retreat on every front from the end of 1941 on. The US had a population 39 million in 1941 and from mid 1942 on crushed the combined army's of its enemy's over the whole globe. Germany and Japan lost, and they both lost for the same reason. They went to war with 19th century army's supplemented with tiny amounts of modern equipment that they could not replace or maintain. America won not only because we could out produce the rest of the world combined, but because the German leadership and Japanese logistics SUCKED. Also. The "King Tiger" as well as the Tiger were so big because of the piss poor steel that was being made in the Nazi slave labor factory's. They needed thick steel to make up for the poor quality of the German armor. Want to know how many "King Tigers" actually faced off with US crewed Sherman's? ZERO. ALL OF THEM broke down or ran out of gas before combat in the west. Want to know how many Tiger one's faced off with US crewed tanks? TWO. One near the Anzio canal during the battle of Anzio that was killed by a US 90MM AA gun being used as an AT gun, and one in Germany that knocked out an M26 Pershing with the first shot, before being knocked out(the kraut) by APC and WP rounds from an M4A3E8 at 800 yards. Only 400 Tigers ever got built. Almost all of them went to Russia. They got beaten by one of the worst tanks in history. The T-34. A tank that was wiped from the battlefield in 1950-51. By the M-4 Sherman. --Ray
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