JAGDTIGER from 1945 in action!
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- Опубліковано 23 сер 2024
- This Jagdtiger was captured by the British in 1945. After the war was over the British military filmed this vehicle in action to study both the strong and weak points of its design.
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This tank is a monster, the gun (12.8cm) got a muzzle velocity of 935 m/s and can deliver a 1000 000 joule solid steel shot to an ailed tank. Witch means the bullet would go through 3 Shermans.
Hey, Werner ! How's that Heavy Water Program going ?
You do know we need the bomb more than those amazing JagdTigers don't you Werner?
Heinz Guderian Herr General ? Oh Mein Gott !! Freud Mich !!
if you said this tank was a monster then what about landkreuzer 1000t and maus , titans?
the landkreuzer 1000t never existed.
Impressive that it can still move that well despite being short two road wheels.
are u still alive
@@imurdad1161 probably not after 10 years
seriously i expected this to move a lot slower...
In germamy, big dosen't mean slow, big means powerfull
michael2011148
yeah, well in WW2 that was pretty true. I mean look at the performance the Tigers gave. now, it seems e North Korea and America think like that.
Nazimelon a heavy tank that is faster (and somewhat more manuverable, neutral steering as an examlpe) than thier mediums, there is a reason we have the saying "german engineering"
+Nazimelon It has an underpowered engine though ^^
+Valentine The Tiger 2 family had a lot of problems.
If a farmer needed his field plowed all he had to do was have a Jagdtiger drive across it a few times.
A few? Only once per line and that shit would be done
No if he wants a field useless you just need to drive over it with this because of all the compression
Here's sir, your payment of 500 gallons of diesel fuel
No, you can do it only ONCE with Maus. Much greater idea 👍
Wow if the farmer uses the jagdtiger to plow his field hell pay 10x more in gasoline than a normal plowing machine.
Fun fact :- the JagdTiger was the heaviest operation vehicle in ww2. And the heaviest land vehicle ever to see combat.
Mause : am i joke to you ?
@@chloroside9433 Maus never saw combat
@@Alice24000 it kinda did
@@chloroside9433 Maus* lmao who cant spell "Maus"? You can't.
@@mr_boo. No. Captured at the factory =/= "saw combat".
Otto Carius commanded Jagd Tiger units in western Europe. His battlefield view was that the main problems for the JT were 1) mechanical failure 2) crew fear of allied fighter bombers 3) sheer inexperience/inadequte training of JT crews. On the rare occasions they were used correctly. Well hidden or dug in in defensive positions they could be formidably destructive. One alone destroyed numerous Shermans together with a substantial number of supporting vehicles. Had the crew then retired by reversing the vehicle the allied tanks could not penetrate the frontal armour. The crew worried about Typhoons or Mustangs panicked and turned the JT around allowing the thinner rear armour to be penetrated after several shots, and yes the JT was capable of shooting through two houses and still killing a Sherman on the other side!
great book btw...just finished Tigers in the Mud
Heinz Guderian
Mr. Guderian, I just finished your book "Actung Panzer". I can see traces of Mr. Carius' adopting your philosophies early on in his combat career.
Good work on your writings on armored doctrine during that time period, however I do not think you say the nature of these machines being built around the assault gun philosophy.
holy crap
The heaviest tank in world war 2. Still look badass than abrams.
ISU-152: Finally a worth opponent our battle will be legendary
Rl ISU 153 cant penetrate the Jagdtiger from the front
@@LordOfChaos.x cant but can destroy it by overpressure, 152mm gun can do this
@@Russinh0 not against a 150 mm plate(250mm the top)
Only maybe if its a HE shells that lands on top of the tank where the armor is thinner
War Thunder is not real life
@@Russinh0 of course if u fire at it 10+ times u will eventually break the welds
@@LordOfChaos.x one shell in the tracks u make Jagdtiger just useless, heavy weight and heavy tracks, long time for repair
It's impressive how it didn't break down during the record
The breakdown occurs only on long travel
@@dronn_ Or with inexperienced drivers.....even a modern can could breakdown in 5 km with an inexperienced driver.
@@rolandhunter Most "terrible transmission" issues were dude to standard transmissions on large vehicles being used in combat. They're not at all forgiving.
That said, this tank's problem was the engine. So trying to really push it like you might want to isn't an option. They did break down engines during long travel without transport, they also weren't meant to push hard around the battlefield.
The ones who were successful with these just parked them & used the engine to position the gun. Moving was mostly for retreating from heavy air raids or repositioning away from artillery fire.
@@gratefulguy4130 I talking based on logic sencse and by historians:
"The authors paid a visit to the Tiger II (Fgst Nr 280273, produced in October 1944) now located in the Ardenness in the village of La Gleize. Driving a modern car to the village on the narrow, steep and sharply curved roads, had required frequent use of low gears. That Tiger IIs had managed to make this same trip in the winter was indeed an impressive testimony to both their maneuverability and mobility"
Kingtiger Heavy Tank 1942-45 by Tom Jentz and Hilary Louis Doyle Peter Sarson page 36
Opinions are a different think.
It's the Jagdtiger from Bovington Tank Museum in Dorset UK! Iv'e seen it myself before!!!!!!
yes it is
It's missing the same wheel on the left side
Yep, it also so happens to be a version with porsche suspension
I wanted to see it fire the gun so bad :(
The Pather Ausf.G,Tiger I later upgrade,Tiger II,Pz.IV .H,JagdPanther and Stug III G were said to be the best.
TIGER I is the most beautiful tank, even compared to the tank model nowadays. I won't argue more
@@yogakhismaiswara that’s your opinion though, I’ll respect it
@@angelic_disappointment7889 Hetzer
Late WW2 German vehicles were great. Especially the late war camo makes everything look cooler
Jagdtiger had best AT gun in ww2. Its 128mm had over 300mm of penetration with APCR shell.
Firmus Piett was able to kill Shermans in front from 3-4km......insanety
+VladGoro25 Tigers in the mud book has a wonderful description by Carius of his Jagdtiger unit formed from training units. One incident he described was when a commander of another Jagdtiger refused to fire at the end of the war. The main gun of the Jagdtiger was so heavy it deranged itself after road travel unless it was locked down in travel position. The last few Jagdtiger crews blew them up or they were abandoned due to a lack of fuel. Just a bit too much for the engineering of the time.
+fuck off google and he killed a sherman behind a house by shooting the house. The 12.8 pak was a marine gun and first made for air defence. Shoot bombers @ 10.000 meters high. Google for 12.8 Zwilling Flak.WTF and this in 1944.
yes, but did they build 60,000 of them, make them reliable, crew them with effective men, and deploy them in 1943? No.
Firmus Piett apcr was bad and most companys didnt use
8/10 never heard of this vehicle before they played world of tanks.
I knew his existence playing blitzkrieg 1
enderman Slender blitzkrieg 2 for me.
Astral_ Pat studying ww2 vehicles for me lol
Well yeah since these things really didn't historically accomplish anything. All that money and metal would have been better invested in more panthers and Tiger 1s and improving them. Even in 1943 as the war started to slip away from them, Germany could have possibly pulled the scores back had they invested intelligently but they just wasted so much time and resources on things that were totally inefficient.
Throat Yogurt the jagtigers, jagdpanthers, elephants, and tiger II were a huge success, the only problem it's germany was ending his fuel
For those, who didn't know this tank. It's the Jagdtiger Porsche Version still displayed at the Bovington Tankmuseum.
I was just thinking that.
In his book, Tigers in the Mud, Otto Carius said he had the very last Jagdtiger unit formed of men from training and proving grounds. He got this after returning from a convalescence. These vehicles had problems that had not been worked out. The gun couldn't stand to be out of the travel cradle while it was on the road. If it was run outside the cradle the mount went FUBAR. The tracks and drives wore out and broke down because German practice was to use railroads to move tanks long distances. Unfortunately railroads were useless to them at that point..
We now know from other descriptions that the unfortunate German tankers armor and drive components had too little manganese in the steel. The high quality Swedish iron ore had been replaced by high sulfur iron ore from Germany. Also Buna artificial rubber hoses leaked fuel into the engine compartment.
The guns like the equally clumsy Stalin tank used bagged charges and separate projectiles. The tanks were sent out as a last ditch unit and almost all of them were broken down and had to be blown up by crews or engineers. He describes a final ambush of Allied tanks in the final pocket of the Wehrmacht in the west. This was by the last two Jagdtigers, where the other vehicles commander refused to fire on he allies since it would have been suicide (in his opinion.)
Brave men ran the machines but the NAZI regime built lots of high strung wonderful tanks like the Panther and Royal Tiger when they needed lots of P-IV tanks with Panther guns and P-IV assault guns with Panther guns.
The P iv was at its very end of itsife cycle.
I do not think it could handle a bigger gun. The design from the mid 30s & it was created to be troop support tank. When Germany realized the PIII was inadequate for a MBT they upgraded the four to fill that role. It actually performed well & had decent reliability.
128mm wonder weapon
Meh KV2 had a 152mm
The Russians always missed the first shot
yeah but the 152 was a howitzer, the 128mm was an actual tank cannon.
teh kv2 was indeed a howitzer therefore it was extremely inaccurate at long ranges or even mid
@@LordGwynn The 128mm gun was originally a naval anti air battery. Funny how their most powerful AT guns seemed to be derived from AA guns.
even with an half destroyed track on one side, its shows an agile and very good off-road behavior for such a Beheamoth
allied tanks can only dream of being such a legend
March 10th 1945, near Remagen, Albert Ernst of 512 destroyed multiple Shermans from distances of over 2,000 metres.
April 11th 1945, Bismarck Hill, near Langschede, Jagdtigers of 512 opened fire from 4,000 metres. 11 Shermans and over 40 other combat vehicles were destroyed.
It looks monstrously powerful even today in 2021 that tiger 1 that royal tiger are beautiful in their design
"If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits 88mph....you're going to see some serious shit."
That baby will never hit 88
@@smgmario9101 Not if you push it down a cliff
@@arandomfinnin1941 won’t even reach 70kmh when going downhill.
@@rozanfaust2967 I know that. In fact if it was going anywhere above 60 kph, it would just start breaking its own tracks, transmission, suspension, engine, etc.
@@smgmario9101 Don't doubt the Doc.
I call this monster a BoT :
Bunker on Tracks :)
Tape were next to buttons and lights on and output medium this computer. Nearing completion in the spring of 1945, the Z4 was moved to Göttingen in the Aerodynamic Research Institute of the KWI for Fluid Dynamics. There it was completed and the first program-controlled computations could be performed.
George Forty (renowned military author and ex army):
"As a young officer, newly commissioned, I remember vividly being taken to visit the battlefields......and coming across what appeared to be an entire regiment of Sherman tanks completely annihilated. The author of all this was one single Jagdtiger, who's immense bulk still occupied a perfect fire position in a farmyard at the top of a commanding hill feature".
My beautiful tiger
boboprime2000 Juden ist verboten GOD DAMNIT! :D
Ich verstehe Ihre Frage nicht, mein Herr.
Pride of the Fatherland, Dont scratch the paintjob, Helmut!
Is this the one at Bovington? It also has those few wheels missing.
The Jadgtigers were not used in Normandy. They didn't see combat until early January 1945, mostly in defensive action in western Germany. They didn't have to road march across countries. Their areas of operation was actually quite small.
Rail travel was manageable in Germany.Even with combat tracks on they could fit on German flat wagons. It was in RUSSIA where the gauges were narrower..but the Jagdtigers never served in Russia. They only served in the W. German border area and a few in Austria
This is one they would park on top of A hill and just start taking out whatever it saw.
Don't forget that bomb carrying P-47s and IL-2s can still come and f**k you
@@arandomfinnin1941 those will get rekt by Me262 with 30mm autocannons
Is this tank in Bovington tank museum ? Theirs also has a road wheel missing.
Looks like a lot of road wheels missing.
IIRC the reason there's some roadwheels missing is because crews would remove them to stop mud and whatnot getting stuck in between them.
The second battle action took place among others in the Second Battle of Lake Ladoga to the beginning of 1943. Although only a few tigers were in use at the same time, they dominated the battlefield and to March 1943 160 enemy tanks were destroyed, whereas in six lost vehicles, only three were due to enemy action.It was revealed that the Red Army is not adequately reinforced had the Tiger available.
Wow,despite its weight it`s maneuverability and speed is nice.
"I'm just surprised this pillbox on wheels actually moves without blowing the transmi- euhhh nevermind"
There wasnt a single ww2 tank that could penetrate this tank, while it could penetrate all of them
Sturmtiger: *shoot side*
Jadgpanther *Oof*
One jadgtiger was knocked out by american tanks in combat
False
@@nico-zt9od 1 M1 abrams is knock-out by a french ww2 155mm artillery gun
Giggitty 😏
Actually in the book Tigers in the Mud, Otto Carius does indeed complain about not having what he was used to. He talks about the manueverability problems then complains:"In addition, it was an assault gun. It had no traversing turret, just an enclosed armoured housing.Any large traversing of the cannon had to be effected by movement of the entire vehicle.Because of that, transmissions and steering differentials were soon out of order" For sure, Otto Carius did NOT like the assault gun concept.
thanks to UA-cam algorithms for throwing me this video in 2021
2024 here
0:51 the best moment
I'm doubting this is the original audio as there is no engine noise.
Its was Electric drive , as so didn't make much noise !!.....had 2 x little HL120 Maybach (12Litre engine rather then the HL230 - 23 Litre engine that the King Tiger had ) engine driving Generators, driving Electric motors.......... just like a late model mining Haulpak / Komatsu 730E/830E/930E truck :)
Sneeker Cutter
Also like the British 1940 TOG1 tank, with it's 600hp Paxman diesel and English Electric generator and motors!
Sneeker Cutter the jagdtiger is based on the tigerII .
the ferdinand or the elefant have the petrol-electric drive only.
MERC-378 He is too !!! ........for whatever reason........................
UnbekannterNrE1ns This is the Porsche Jagdtiger prototype. It had the electrical drive.
I saw the one at Aberdeen Proving Ground up close before they were all moved somewhere else. Quite a beast.
The Zuse Z4 is a Zuse developed by engineers and equipment digital computer, built from 2200 relay. It has a mechanical accumulator which can accommodate 64 numbers. (Magnetic stripe)
The Z4 was built from 1942 to 1945 as a further development of the Zuse Z3 in Berlin. To give you more flexibility of the programming side, it was provided for the connection of several pick-up (tape reader) and holes (tape puncher).
со стоковой пушкой гоняет
Looks like a cannal boat.
"And anyway why they couldn't build more factories and tanks, as we did?"
You've been alread told. The germans weren't only busy in the east. Fighting a multiple front war, but still it took several years till they were beaten. Remember, it took 6 weeks for Wehrmacht to conquer the benelux and France. Russia, USA, UK, Australia, Canada, France and many more... it took them 3 years and more to end the war.
I read about the longest kill was over 4k away. JTiger used 10x mag optics. The gun was designed as an AA gun and had a vertical range of over 10k.
Would love it if the Tank Museum got this moving again. With the news of the Maus being restored at Kubinka surely this monster is next? Lets hope so :)
Any pictures of the restoration?
German engineering is best
Damn right.
So how come they produced so many unreliable tanks and aeroplanes; machines that were far too over engineered for service in the field?
Soviet engineering was the best - resulting in machines that were easy to make in mass quantities; easy to maintain in the field; worked in summer and winter and got the job done.
German engineering at it's most eccentric, over complicated, unnecessary, and in the end useless.
how is being bigger and stronger overcomplicated?
Gnostic Brian Yeah and couldnt make it 100km out of the factory without breaking down, were incredibly poorly made, had horribly inaccurate guns, and massive, and blatent design flaws that the Soviets ignored, so they could make as many as possible.
Also the soviets had tons of failures that never made it to the battlefield just like every army, so thats not just a German trait.
More.
Otto Carius said that in Siegen, a rumour was going around that his Jagdtigers had knocked out about 40 American tanks. He had to tell the troops in Siegen that it wasn't true. Then Otto Carius writes:
""Had only two or three tank commanders and crews from my company in Russia (Tiger battalion 502) been there with me, then the rumour could have easily been true".
So you see, the biggest complaints Otto Carius made about the Jagdtigers were the low quality of the crews using them.
This is the conclusion I've come to after sifting through the data.
It's much more difficult to have an open and honest discussion these days. The academic space is filled with people who feel so threatened by the ghosts of the past that we have to make them out to be less frightening more than we need to preserve history as faithfully as possible (in their minds).
@MrILoveFirearms - Sorry if I wasn't clear. It was the gun being towed behind a truck that I was referring to with the 'greater risk' comment. Seemed very time consuming to unhitch, drop the pads, aim, load, fire, reverse the procedure, hook back onto truck & make a get away. As for the Jagdtiger, I've seen photo's of such things before but clearly I'm pretty ignorant about them. I'm seeing their advantage as mobile, armored & big gun good for long range targets.
Is it just me or is the video kind of creepy
Mingxin Zhao A video of a tank coming straight at you is always creepy!
It's beautiful! 🤩
Вот это мощь !!!!💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻
и где там мощь??
@@castlevina8425 and?
Сарай не поваротлевый.
@@user-mv8cr3zu2t с ним так возле столовой воевать хорошо
Так пушка стоковая
+Acme663 in case you weren't aware, despite its large size the Jagtiger (and other vehicles based on the tiger chassis) were by no means slow, this thing could really book it. Also the reason so few were produced (only 77 I think) is because it was designed so late in the war, Germany's bombed out manufacturing could not produce many.
The high profile is the only weakness!
It is a defensive weapon and it should be stealthy!
MY FAV WWII VEHICLE
Sort of makes you wonder how it was captured
Didn't they have a history of mechanical breakdowns, petrol supply problems and parts problems? They were almost undefeatable on the battlefield, but many didn't make it that far.
It ran out of gas.
These pictures were made shortly after the war. The Jagdtiger-unit had surrendered and handed it over.
camper 800 WN8
I have 2100
Качество съемки этой камеры в 100 раз лучше чем качество некоторых современных видео.
They arlready had an MG stored inside the fighting compartment, the MG mounted in the forward wasn't provided until the modernisation program in early 1944.
No Ferdinand was pulled back after Kursk they remained fighting on the eastern front until very late in 1943.
This tank used 50% of Germany's remaining fuel in April 1945 🤣
Wrong, they only use like 130-150% the amount of fuel as an panzer IV or T-34 and M4 sherman
@@startingbark0356 pal that's a joke referring to Germany's severe supply problems in 1945, lol
@@startingbark0356 The fuel usage was around 2,35l for every km for the Panzer IV, while the Jagdtiger used more than 7l for 1km. which is more than triple.
Both values are taken for a movement on a solid road with cruising speed.
I took the values from wikipedia.
@@fabiusmaximuscunctator7390 Wikipedia is often wrong, i dont believe it, it makes more sense to be not that fuel consuming and btw i was comparing to tiger 1 and panther, jagdtiger is just something they had in very limited numbers
@@fabiusmaximuscunctator7390 and that’s probably the A variant of panzer IV which only weighted 20 tonnes and was very slow and had an very low power engine
2000 more in 1945 in Berlin and the red army would have got their asses kicked
5 million T-34-85s would make quick work of them.
3 sigmarines would make short work of those 5 mil t34's
That wouldn't have done shit. If Hitler secured the river at stalingrad Germany would have won. That single battle decision to leave the river open let soviets renforce and surround the germans in stalingrad.
so they were short of some 1920 only...
Rubbish, The Germans had no oil to move these monsters, no lubricant, few trained crews. The gun had a 10 degree traverse so the vehicle could be outflanked, each unit absorbed a huge amount of time and scarce resources that would have been far better used building late series panthers, though even these would have been compromised by lack of fuel etc.,
That turns much quicker than I thought, quicker than tiger turret maybe?
Yes the 122mm did, but the IS-2 wasn't made with pure Anti-tank combat in mind, more of the traditional tank design which was to support infantry but blowing the crap out of bunkers and such, the large calibre was perfect for packing heaps of TNT and good for soft targets so its 'incredible firepower' cannot be used as a general term.
Too heavy, too slow, used too much fuel and cost too much.
until it stucks at a hole or fall down on bridge.
Instead of building 5 Jagdtigers they could build 50 StuG III Of 50 Hetzers .... :) Samen with the Tiger and the Tiger II, they could build more Panther V instead of 1 Tiger of Tiger II
Yet more resource efficient then building their smaller tanks that where worse then their allied counter parts
That's not in action, it's evaluation footage of an abandoned Jagdtiger. It's missing one of the road wheel, which would have been repaired had it actually been in service, or been evaluated for testing.
You do realize that repairing during combat is hard so they just let it like that
Since the British had a tendency to scrap anything and everything post war, i'm very surprised and happy it still exists.
Very interesting to see that this Tiger had Zimmerit coating on the fenders as well. Most Tiger photographed on the continent didn't. Thanks for sharing RZM!
And here is more from Otto Carius on the Jagdtiger:" A 'TANKER' cannot feel comfortable in an assault gun.We want to be able to turn our weapons 360 degrees. If not, we have no feeling of security and superiority". You see? It was like I said. Otto Carius simply did not enjoy being transferred from a TANK like the Tiger I to an assault gun/tank destroyer like the Jagdtiger. He just wasn't used to the concept of a turretless AFV and was never comfortable with that. Albert Ernst, in contrast..WAS.
Wow the machine is just digging its self into the ground when it turns. Massive monster of a tank !!
BTW, I do read a book. Modern Land Combat (ISBN: 3-7276-7092-4) is an old book, but it still illustrates the effect and the way modern weaponry works. Since most of the stuff we still use has been around for a while (minus upgrades), I still count it as pretty relevant.
Funfact:
This is the an prototype version of the Jagdtiger with the Porsche Laufwerk
The kinetic energie of an 128mm round is somewhat higher, even if it should not penetrate, it would blow of turrets or smash true the armor due overmatching.
The Jagdtiger often gets criticized for being slow and cumbersome, and while that is true it didn't really matter for the purpose of the tank. Look at that thing, they were made for defensive use exclusively. No allied tank of the time could survive a hit from that nasty 128mm cannon. It had almost impenetrable frontal armor. The only real weakness this beast had was the relative weak engine(which was prone to malfunction).
This was a tank i think captured by the British and brought back to the uk for testing and evaluation
This is film of it on the tank testing ground at Farenbaugh
Nice toaster, i thougt it was slower but it looks quite movile, even with half of the suspension.
@IGerIAntistatik the Leo's resistance is from two factors. The wedges on the turret try to twist a penetrator by steep slope. Under that perforated armor twists subcaliber munitions in the 35-42mm range. This is backed by some light composite and steel to "catch" broken-up rounds
Chobham uses ceramic to stop a round. The ceramic spreads the force over the tiles around it, which spread it to those around them, etc. DU acts like perf. armor and keeps the tiles from buckling.
kinda wanted to hear him shoot, jagdtiger does have a unique shooting sound
Sherman Hiding behind house+Jagdtiger having a 12.8cm cannon= Dead Sherman. True story shot through the house.
It is true that no King Tiger was ever penetrated frontally on any known occasion, by an Allied AT weapon. Noted armor historian Steven Zaloga did a very thorough search of the known records, and found no evidence that a KT was ever penetrated in this manner. However, they were knocked out via flank and rear shots.
The Tiger was a good Tank,
On average, 7 destroyed Allied tanks for 1 German Tank . The relationship between Tiger and Sherman was even higher. The Tiger and King Tiger was practically indestructible for a Sherman. The Allies won in France only by air superiority, with most German tanks were lying out of fuel and spares shortages and had to be blown up
Modern tanks no longer use sloped armour as it is completely useless against modern ammo, they have all reverted back to mostly flat armour and better materials used in the armour itself.
Damn man things so famous it has a rollar coaster in the backround
@IGerIAntistatik we call them tungsten-carbide. They're not radioactive but don't ignite on impact.
Against large projectiles it does. The very open, large turret of an Abrams acts like very widely-spaced armor. The same penetration that would blow a leopard apart might take someone's arm off. As for the armor, it is just a generic composite with perforated steel. The wedges help mostly against APDS and are very dependent upon angle. Look at the insides of them.
""And they where a terrible defensive weapon""
Incorrect. In defence, the Jagdtigers actually performed very well considering the numerical superiority of the allies and complete air cover and they took a heavy toll of American armour pushing eastwards into Germany, especially in the Ruhr pocket area and the Saarland. There were just too few of them to make a difference. In defence though, they wrecked a large number of advancing American tanks and other vehicles.
This must be one of the Brits found at Haustenbeck / Sennelager prooving ground.
The missing trackwheel is famous for this one.
I think the film was made in germany in May / June 1945.
Again, Otto Carius was not used to fighting in heavy assault guns. He was a TANK man. Nobody used to fighting in tanks liked being 'downgraded' to assault guns/tank destroyers. He was only in the Jagdtiger in combat for little over a month. Now, on the other hand, somebody who was well used to fighting in an assault gun/tank destroyer was Albert Ernst. He was in Nashorns and briefly Jagdpanthers before the Jagdtiger. He had more success than Carius in Jagdtigers.
This is the Porsche variant which is now on display at the Bovington Tank Museum! Which is well worth a visit!!
Wow! Even my grandfather would be surprised!
Jagdtiger carried a 128mm caliber 44 cannon. It carried about 39 rounds of AP and HE ammo. The HE was mostly used against soft targets. Limited gun elevation would limit artillery use.
The German tank defect started with the Tigers and Panthers, the gears that were attached to the chains was buckling under the weight of heavy armour, it was not designed for immense weight, eventually, the gears would just give in- It was the same gears that was used on panzer IIIs and IVs- which are technically Lighter tanks
The stug III primarily purpose was of an assault gun in the support infantry role, wich it did in the early stages of the war: The early stug III could not properly be empoyed as a tank killer because of is much short gun. Only in the end of 42 when it was upgraded for the 75 mm medium barrel gun, plus increased armor, it came effective in the defensive tank killer role for it cost, as it replaced lost tanks that cannot be replaceable.
Back then Bazookas werent so good, And the armor on the JagdTiger is a beast...
There are lots of books answering that, but a tiger II elite crew could fire almost 10 rounds per minute with a low chance of any allied gun penetrating his frontal armor. Costly mammoths got eliminated from armies in land and water warfare after WWII for the resource cost. Main battle tanks (advanced medium tanks) replaced monsters
The Leopards are actually light tanks, while the M1 Abrams is classified as a medium tank.
Wow how can you be so wrong !, both are classified as Main battle tanks
@@startingbark0356 You might play too much HOI4. Weight class is still relevant.
@@gratefulguy4130 they would be heavy tanks, both of them
@@gratefulguy4130 and technically speaking class is not based on weight perse, it’s more based on gun caliber actually
@@gratefulguy4130 in case of Germany during the 30’s it was based on caliber, only super heavies are solely based on weight
Artilery was able to pop em quite nicely,but not from the front but from the top of the hull and turret.
The germans where the ones using the most artillery and tiger II was very mobile
Such a fantastic destroyer... it's a shame that the whole concept of tank destroyers was more or less abandoned after WWII, because vehicles like these are truly impressive feats of engineering.
I see what youre saying, and I understand you may think that sloping is useless now, but one thing, the M1A3 has very shallow armour, and I checked. se second thing is even if certain rounds from tanks do not deflect, and that the composite armour is designed to deform the round, that doesnt mean that they cannot slope it; theyre not two mutually exclusive factors. they will use any countermeasures as possible, sloping is the cheapest method possible. people do it today because it works.
@FelixHD1 The US typically had soundness in design, apart from the ammo storage in the Sherman, which was rectified with "wet stowage". Long-lasting tracks, solid suspensions, decent engines, excellent fire controls, modest armor, easy repairability, and numbers.
“Hans… the running gear appears to be damaged”
They would have you believe it took 50x that long to turn around
" Tiger is a heavy tank so compare it with IS-2 for example"
The IS2 appeared on the battlefield in 1944. The early versions were not very combat sufficient. Even the PzIV and StuGs were able to crack them. The Panther was more mobile, had a higher rate of fire and its gun could destroy an IS2 at 1000m without difficulty.
Imagine if there's a flying allied plane above the testing facility.. lol
The Jagdtiger was just some kind of a mobile AT-gun. It was never build for fast advances. It was build for heavy support, breakthroughs and for massive tank destruction. And it was effective in its role. But the massive use of fuel was a problem, especially in the last month
Nobody who used it said it was effective ; it had many serious engineering issues .