Yea the tank is cool. but that trailer. 70 ton tank with wide combat track on. That trailer is amazing, and the guy who mapped the route they drove should get a medal
Beautiful piece of machinery/hardware.. looks better on show/ parade then on the battlefield.. unique design.. quite fascinating.. credit to the designer's, but well augustrated.. operaters in 'that-beast' taking it for 'a-run' are crowd pleaser's..well done 👍thnx for sharing ✌️ nice presente 🦾✌️👍😜
Esto es una obra de arte de lujo , los tanques de ahora no tienen esa inponencia como estas piezas históricas, tan duro debió ser la guerra que solo con ver estos tanques trasmite mucho poder intimidacion el respeto de los adversario toda la intención de la guerra en un tanque!!!
I was detailed out during O.S.U.T. at Ft. Knox in '91 to a King Tiger restoration project. It was only one day, but it was an excellent day! In it I saw the origins of the M1 Abrams that I crewed.
Probably because they ran the engine within the spec of its cooling capacity and kept the gear ratio high to avoid stalling out or overheating, It also probably has all the perks of high quality synthetic oil, modern coolant and bearing grease. This tank will likely outlast a lot of king tigers and still be serviceable in the end.
Certainly not impossible. The Dutch brought the King Tiger to Overloon, for Militracks, from Saumur, in France. It would be a relatively simple matter to bring the Model E from Bovington in the future. We may yet see these two machines side by side!
@BlitzVlogger it isn't that heavy, only 65t, get a high power truck and you can easily get it where you want. As for crossing the ocean, ships nowadays are absolutely massive,another 65t won't even itch
Alexander Gauland An M8 could only damage the tanks rear at a very close range only with repetitive shots. That is how the rare confrontation of the two vehicles played out, any tank in world can be destroyed or damaged in the back of the hull also that whole scenario is something you would expect in a game of War Thunder and I never would of thought something like that could actually happen in real life.
@@lordmegatron7359 I know. I only tried to point out that you dont need a heavy tank to destroy another heavy tank. Panzer 5 can easily kill IS-2 also. No need for a Tiger I or II
Its introduction was underwhelming. In the West, in small French towns, it was easily dispatched with side shots. In the East, the first attack was ambushed by IS-2s and T-34/85s, and routed, with no Soviet losses. (And THREE Tiger IIs were captured intact.)
@@jasoncarswell7458 Yeah... cute story with post war hindsight. IN reality the US troops suffered from Tiger phobia more than anyone else, constantly reporting encounters with Tigers and Tiger kills, more so than Germany ever had to begin with + in places where there weren't even any.
@@clint4637 I say that the Tiger 2 is an extremely formidable tank on the battlefied but it doesn't come close to the best in terms of other internal problems that this tank has
@@stevem2323 was also too complex, took forever to repair if they shit down and needed a whole workshop to repair, Sherman's could be repair on the field cause how simple they were
@@Gj23jk2 Let's be honest, it is worth it because the Germans does not have many resouces. If i had to choose between mass produce 75-76mm tank that are disposable but need high resouce and 88mm high velocity that can withstand many rounds before taken out but also need high resource, i choose 88mm HV. Yes Germany lose the war, but that was because they open too many front, not mostly because their tank sucs (although they did sucs at eastern front during winter)
It kinda isn't. From a technological perspective the Tiger 2 was awesome. Hits hard. Unlikely to get destroyed. But from an operational perspective the Tiger 2 was bullshit. Too big, too slow, too heavy, too error-prone, combat range that is a joke and very ressource intensive in it's construction and usage. The same you could say to a certain degree about the Tiger 1. But the Tiger one was still more than 10t lighter. Jesus these fuckers couldn't even cross the vast majority of the bridges in europe. The Panther was definitely the superior design and all around the best german tank from the second world war.
70 tons of pure German engineering at it's finest. Makes you think that modern MBTs are the same weight, and how they even got the Maus to move. Would have loved to see the Lowë and E series.
5:29 Imagine being an allied infantryman, and seeing a King Tiger emerge around a bend in the road like that, sunlight shining on that behemoth. I feel like that would have a massive psychological impact - a real “oh F&CK!” moment, when you feel that simultaneous shot of adrenaline dump into your chest.
One M10 crew reported how they'd spotted one perpendicular to them, coming up a side street in a French town, and that they'd put a 3-inch projectile into the side. The Tiger II came to a stop, but didn't burn. In those situations, the Tiger II gave away most of its advantages, and an M10 could hole a Tiger II almost as easily as a Tiger II could hole an M10.
Actually we have two King Tigers, a running Tiger I (the only one in the world) and a Jadgtiger in our national tank museum. Why you feel the need to pick on us when they were destroyed in vast numbers by other countries isn't clear - perhaps you would like to elaborate? If you are from the United States, your hypocrisy is breathtaking since the only King Tiger in your country is mothballed in a yard and not even on show to the public.
@Andrew W Always someone like you on a video like this. I 💩 on your ugly plane lol. This tank is beautiful and could destroy any other tank in ww2. The reliability issues of the Tigers and Panther are inflated, they had decent reliability all things considered. Tiger II was fairly fast for its weight, I have a video of it, HISTORICAL footage with a captured Tiger II that proves it. This Tiger is almost 80 years old, they have to drive it very carefully because it's the only one that still works. And after a few days of running every day, I can tell you that it works and sounds much better than in this video.
@Faby Ana And frustratingly few people like you on these :c It's incredible how much damage propaganda can do even decades later. I'm surprised that the MG42 isn't considered trash like the American training videos had to say to get anyone in front of them. And hey, another girl who appreciates these :D
@@ironhell813 Try telling that to the Soviets and Americans who had the misfortune of running into one.... this thing was lethal, a step ahead of everything anyone else had until the Pershing made its debut...
Ha! There was a 90 yo German tank engineer on YT that said that the tigers were junk and when they ran into a 34 and disabled it they pushed their tiger into the lake and took the Russian tank. He said the tigers were notorious for being unable to be used because they consumed too much gasoline. They were often abandoned and there is one in France that is now a monument that was left where she ran out of gas lol Toughness doesn’t matter when you’re outnumbered.
@Kkdkdkfkkf Genjdjdkd go and educate yourself and look it up .. there was at best 1 firefly in a group of 5 Sherman's and plenty of ex tankies acknowledgement of the term tiger fear for very good reason..
@Kkdkdkfkkf Genjdjdkd There is a documentary here on YT where they interview a few old US WWII veteran tankers, and they all said that if they had to pick a tank it would have been the Tiger every time.
@@SPACEHARICE yeah I doubt weight of numbers made the tank crews of Sherman's feel any better when they saw Sherman's bursting in flames all around them while their own rounds bounced off the tigers
Sadly while it was a very good engine. It was still wasn't enough for the Tiger II tank. Still consider underpowered and a mechanic's nightmare. These tanks like the Panthers and Tigers I were always suffering mechanical problems on the field.
@Matt you confused it with the tiger 1 that was the 88flak the tiger 2 gun was different same with the panter 75mm and the pz4 f2 gun. same caliber around the same projectile but different casing so impossible to interchange. Same with the shell of the stg44 and karabiner 98k
operation unknown who mentioned anything about pitting it against anything modern? This is 70odd years old. Appreciate it for what it is. This was leaps ahead of anything else during ww2. A phenomenal piece of engineering. Sure it had problems but it was still an awesome piece of kit.
Frontal armor, frontal armor -- whoopy do !!! A King Tiger with its track shot through or a road wheel blown off is still put out of action ------------- except as a stationary firing point.
What a formidable beast! I have a photo, that my father took, of a knocked out King Tiger somewhere in France during WWII. Though disabled he said it was still very impressive.
glareola Wow you do realize that King Tiger Number 100 during the battle of Burlin destroyed over 100 soviet tanks just one of them they had to abandon it because they ran out of ammo not invincible sure nothing is but this was a beast non the less
That story can't be verrified though. The Soviets lost countless of vehicles and tanks in Berlin, which is understandable considering the nature of urban warefare, where some anti tank weapon or even just a soldier with a Panzerfaust could stand around every corner, window or ruin. It would have been very surprising though, if the German army could even get enough rounds together to supply a Tiger 2 in Berlin with the necessary rounds to destroy 100 tanks. The Tiger 2 was a fearsome tank, but just like the Tiger 1 it was glorified and there are more myths than actuall facts floating around the internet.
@@yacinealg152 Not a mistake, a design decision based on real engineering considerations. Actual design work depends on more factors than just some notion about "more armor plate slope is the best". Try actually looking at the effective armor thickness presented at multiple angles of impact, and then look at how increasing the slope of a plate affects the interior space and layout (remember, the crew, final drive housing, etc., has to go somewhere)- then you are beginning to scratch the surface of what all goes into it. Not just making models of the outside however you want it to look.
lieninger sorry sir, i forgot about what we were talking about, but i think we were talking about the TIGER design, yeah, you are right about what you told me
While it certainly dosent look modern, it really doesn't look that old, but in the other hand, think about T-54, that thing was put to mass production in 1947! And still looks quite fresh
these tanks were designed and built quickly and rushed into battle. pretty good for a rush job but there were obvious weaknesses. more engine power and speed would have made a big difference. it would be cool to install one of the newer 1500hp engines in one of these to see what it could do.
Backfiring because they didn't run the engine on idle for 20 mins. before " unloading " it....and a good tune-up wouldn't hurt either. But...She does look good :-))
The old large scale gasoline engines tended to backfire even under perfect circumstances. With such a large cylinders, its far too easy to have an incorrect mixture at least somewhere once you release the accelerator.
Personally, I think the Tiger 2's overall silhouette looks like something that could work as a modern tank. There was a model that fit a 105mm cannon at one point anyway. Though three glaring things that obviously need changing are the engine (switch it for diesel), a transmission that lasts longer than (from what I hear) 5kms and obviously ditching the overlapping road wheels and have just five or six wheels on either side.
Well that model was never built because even from blueprints they could tell the gun could barely fit, especially with all the crew members in the tank.
Those tracks are so |-----------------------| wide. That turret is so huge. What a beautiful beast. I never thought I'd get to see a Tiger II like this! This video was a real treat. Thanks for sharing and big congrats to these guys caring for the tank! It looks magnificent!
its for the weight of the tank heldps displace the weight evenly, it also helps with tractions,, unofortunatly its not something the panzer 3-4's had so they got stuck alot in the bogs and snow in russia. Something the T34'S had a huge advantage because they had very wide tracks for such a light tank
@@jeepsblackpowderandlights4305 I agree Jacon and will add the T-34 was the most pivotal weapon the Russians had to turn the tide. An exceptional design doing everything well that a tank was expected to do. It won the "greatest tank of all time" in a western documentary that took into account the immediacy of its need, the shock it gave to the enemy, the speed it could travel over rough terrain, not to mention the incredible speed it was deployed (often unpainted, unfinished), the sloping armor, even the short 76 was enough gun to fight back against the Panzers and win. But keep in mind that late in the war, the Soviet military leadership instructed its troops only to capture and use the IIIs and IVs and to leave the Tigers and Panthers where they were found because they were too unreliable (transmission, engine, suspension). Tiger II just wasn't practical; so many problems due to weight and fuel, it killed itself more than the enemy did.
@@fifteenbyfive not sure about panthers. Only eaely models were bad i heard. They made almost as many panthers as panzer 4s. They were a better tank than the tiger 1 and 2
@@keithchrysler3732 Oh cool. Yeah the front armor was invulnerable to everything in all probability. I have to think the order of the day was calling in air power to deal with even one of these monsters. If not then at least get suppression, or immobilization in the ideal case. Or make it get kinda stuck or have to do a lot of work and hopefully break down, or whatever else we come up with lol I'm sure Germany's enemies got creative. Lessons learned with the Tiger would also apply here.
@@dickvansteijn4115The Panther was a sexy tank but actually shocking ineffevtive when you look at the combat reports. shermans ran rings around them in head to head mardhups.. Sure, they had that terrifying gun, but they could be killed from the front by an average Sherman if its gunner knew what he was doing, and the Sherman was built better -- more agile, easier to operate, made of better materials, and each crew station carefully optimized. In engagements between the Sherman and the Panther, real head to head engagements, the Sherman saw the Panther first 66% of the time, even when the Panther was lying in ambush. That meant that a lot of the paper deficiencies of the Sherman were negated by vastly superior crew initiative.
*WOW, AMAZING TO SEE ONE RUNNING. MUSEUMS ALSWYS HAVE SOMETHING MISSING SO THEY CANNOT RUN. EXAMPLE THE GEAR BOX, STEERING MECHANISM IS USUALLY GONE. THERE ARE NOT MANY TIGER 2'S COMPLETELY RUNNING. THANK YOU FOR UPLOADING THIS RARE GEM!!*
Soory not want to sound nitpicking but it was a king not a queen so technically it's not she ,like Bismarck whic was called he by Germans not she well Nazis hasd some real issues with women iguess
Anarchy The Fox i know right. And the roadwheels are where they are to protect the crew even more. Not easy to penetrate through the wheels. I would rather have a hard time repairing my tank than die ;(
Thanks for sharing. I made a 1/16 scale remote control model years ago. Seeing the real tank close up must be an awesome experience. A most impressive machine for the time.
Considering how little time and under what conditions this tank is made, it is definitely the best tank. Imagine that the Germans had time and materials
Germans HAD time and materials, but should have not freeze armour development for almost TWO years (not that I complain...), start with Panther earlier on, iron out problems and go for "Uhu" variant with first primitive night vision. Long-barrel, long-round 76mm was quite adequate for blasting every tank of WW II anyway. What Germany lacked was, among other things, unified command in military and R&D, fuel ... not to mention several other factors.
@Acoustic02 _ so why did the the third Reich lose? FFS maybe a massive reason was the compulsion for vanity projects, massively complex arms procurement and a shortage of strategic materials. Germany was finished in 1941 and not equipped for a long war. No resources, no easy access to the sea and a secret weapon - Mr Hitler. Oh, and crap transmissions on their latest tanks. Das ist gut? Ya!
I can only imagine the terror that the allied tankers would feel when they saw this monster slowly lurch towards them only to unleash the roar of its massive gun.
Tigers didn't lurch slowly towards enemies, they where ment ti sit and ambush transfering tank columns and other armored vehicles, they mostly sit in a Bush and wait
"What do you drive these days?" "Oh, it's a V12 Maybach!" "A V12 Maybach? That ought to get you some mixed reactions!" "Yes, you can say that." *smiles and thinks of the one time a Sherman commander fell over while abandoning his tank, revealing a set of soiled pants*
Watching this makes me think of what it must have looked and felt like with the King Tigers trying to advance through the hilly and wooded terrain in the Ardennes in December 1944 during the Battle of the Bulge. They were big, powerful tanks, but painfully slow in this kind of setting; being restricted to narrow dirt roads and tight passageways.
This is insane, I'm getting my delivery of one of these next week. I like last years model better but this years model get better fuel mileage so I had to weigh the pros and cons.
The King (Tiger 2) in English. 490 built from 44-45 with about 10 remaining worldwide today. Another 7 or so Tiger 1's are around also. That 88 mm canon and two MG 34 machine guns...made this tank quite the defensive weapon. It could move also (40-45 kmh on good roads), but usually crawled along at 23-28 kmh. Simply stated it was the benchmark for heavy tanks. It was complex to build and very costly also. Thus, the limited numbers. One Tiger took out 22 T-34's and held back over 50. Another set of Tigers held back the whole American army invasion for a few hours in the Western front. Not one Tiger was ever taken out from the front, not one. Germany lost a lot due to poor maintenance and high maintenance schedules though, and it ate up 3 gallons per mile, a fuel hog. Simply the tank in that era until others caught up. The Russians and the British captured Tiger 1's and reversed engineered them effectively. The Tiger 2 manuals were written in "cartoon fashion" with scantly dressed women sketched throughout the manual to keep the mechanics and engineers...well, reading the manual.
None of these are known to have been taken out from the front because there were almost none left by the time 90mm HVAP projectiles made their way to the front. Stateside, however, in firing tests, 90mm HVAP projectiles defeated Tiger II front plates. So, the notion that no Tiger II was ever frontally penetrated during the war is false.
@r.j.dunnill1465 Good luck getting that perfect shot on the turret face (the only place HVAP could penetrate) from 1000 yards away or more. Meanwhile the KT can shoot you just about anywhere and he will most likely knock out your tank, crew and all. This goes for the 'Super Pershing' too.
And the KT had the same engine as a little old Panther! That it outweighed by at least 10 tons. Only 450 were ever made, less than half of those ever made it to the battlefield. But the King Tiger wreaked destruction everywhere it appeared. The frontal armor of the KT was never penetrated by ANY allied anti-tank weapon.
The frontal armor of the KT is not known to have been defeated in combat by any Allied AT weapon, but it certainly was on the testing range. The U.S. shipped Stateside various captured German AFVs where Ordnance subjected them to firing tests. Ordnance concluded the T30E16 HVAP round would defeat the glacis out to 100 yards and the gun shield out to 800 yards.
@@jefftheriault7260 And the fuel. I don't think it does too many miles to the gallon! My friend had a small Daimler Dingo scout car and that only did eight miles on a gallon of fuel. I can only imagine what sort of gas this thing guzzles.
Allied Tanks were mere Agricultural equipment compared to German tanks. Freaking classy as a Mercedes coupe. Problem was they got heaver and bulkier, German over engineering was not needed. Simply keep the crew somewhat safe and blow things up with low maintenance, they had the crew safe and blow things up down. But replacement parts could not be salvaged from other vehicles and with the factories being bombed day and night parts got scarce. It was always needing something done to it to keep it fit. Sherman's could run circles around them but had no armor to take an 88mm round. They had to ascend on them like a pack of wolves and hit them from behind and or take out the drive, then go in for the kill. Still a bad ass piece of brilliant iron, nothing like it. That backfire is not good, these pieces of history should be running top shelf all the time.
I keep hearing this argument but it's an obvious fallacy. The Germans had no option but to go for quality because they simply didn't have the numbers. And I am not talking about numbers of tanks. I am talking about numbers of crews. In fact even during the last year of war Germany was producing plenty tanks and aircraft. What they didn't have was manpower and of course oil. So with that in mind you want to keep your limited resource alive as long as possible so you give him a Tiger. The allies had no such concerns. So having 5 Ronsons go up for every Tiger was no biggy. Rather callous though.
Would be amazing to see the KT make a top speed test run, just to see this giant scoot along at 40+ kph, but they no doubt don't want to stress the engine...
@@Eric-kn4yn One thing that is problematic with the HL 230 in this config is just how much the weight can fluctuate on the crankshaft depending on the terrain of which no amount of revving can keep the bearings lubricated and cool when it encounters immediate asymmetric terrain while going that fast. Roads and open fields are probably ok if they are not aggressive with the shifting.
Only riders in Panzer crew uniforms should be allowed on it (for aesthetics). And someone should give it an ambush paint job. Get Hollywood to write up a movie like, "Last Tiger" etc. and use the $$ to rebuild the Maybach engine.
Yes, It's a pity to spend so much time restoring a tank and then riding it in modern civilian clothes. It's really weird and it spoils some of the fun of seeing the beast. What is worth for a German tank is worth for an armored vehicle of any nation, it's just as weird to see people on an Medium Tank M4 in shorts and flip-flops. So, it's my personal opinion. But obviously, people who restore vehicles do not have the same.
If I was a multimillionaire I’d have to upgrade engine and transmission. All these gorgeous German monsters seemed plagued by undersized engines and problematic transmissions. Still for aggressiveness of design they were unmatched. I’ve loved them since I was a model builder as a kid.
Thank you for sharing this! I'm a WWII historian by hobby, and I've never seen such a pristine Model of the King Tiger than this! It is AMAZING! I can now better appreciate the comments of WWII Allied Tankers regarding this formidable Tank!! Where was this filmed at?! Once again thanks for sharing this!
The king tiger looks sleek, deadly, and modern even today 75 years later...the 88 mm gun was so powerful it would penetrate two Sherman tanks parked side by side, and the projectile would exit the second tank.
That's assuming the Pzgr 40/1 projectile yes? Because Pzgr 39/43(the primary AP round) had a bursting charge. If the charge didn't go off, yeah absolutely but if it did, no it probably wouldn't. But thats the nature of bursting charges in general
I have wanted to see & especially hear one of these incredibly rare King Tiger tanks for a very long time. It's a special treat to actually hear the Maybach engine running 🫡
@markengel6570 I agree. You would think that by the time the King Tiger was made that Germany would've learned that a V10 or better yet a V12 diesel engine was the superior choice, especially in an enclosed environment of a main battle tank.
Just think how impressive (and frightening) it would have been, had it had a diesel engine, instead of gasoline (highly combustible and explosive, in confined spaces), a neutral steering gear, like on the Panzerkampfwagen V Panther, and a heavier duty final drive. The final drive on German tanks was a straight spur gear. On the Shermans, it was double herringbone. The final drive on the Sherman was the better technology and design - more gear teeth, more surface area, less overall torque applied to a single gear tooth. With a straight spur gear, that's a whole lot of force concentrated on one gear tooth. Also, the final drive was rated for a Panzer IV, something in the 32-35 ton range. Everything from the Panzer V onward weighed in excess of 45 tons, so they could never go as fast as earlier models.
@@wharris302 Exhaust valve timings are way off on a few cylinders as a result of disrepair to the crankshaft bearings. This tank likely has only 79% of it's full engine capacity.
Sounds like those 4 52JFF carbs may be out of sync. Sure is making quite a few pop-backs, unless this was just a common occurrence for the HL230..It sure is a beautiful tank. Although it suffered from reliability issues during the war (mainly due to retaining parts more suitable for lighter equipment) it’s tactical mobility was overall impressive especially when compared to what it was going up against during that time.
Even 73 years later, it looks and sounds more menacing then some of the tanks of today.
Puzzoozoo the American tanks today are far better
@@oddball2870 Nah, really?
I'd flat out trade in an Abrams for this lol. Wish they made the Lowë.
Show me one single more menacing tank from modern era. This is serious looking tank and it still have beautiful shapes
Sounds like a custom bike
Yea the tank is cool. but that trailer.
70 ton tank with wide combat track on. That trailer is amazing, and the guy who mapped the route they drove should get a medal
This is truly the King of all tanks even today.
No
Yes it is
well it is powerfull but for its time now it can't even scratch todays tanks so it is KING but an old fragile legendary KING
hey another wehraboo
Lol
Germans created better tanks just 20 years later let alone today
Beautiful piece of machinery/hardware.. looks better on show/ parade then on the battlefield.. unique design.. quite fascinating.. credit to the designer's, but well augustrated.. operaters in 'that-beast' taking it for 'a-run' are crowd pleaser's..well done 👍thnx for sharing ✌️ nice presente 🦾✌️👍😜
For that time frame King Tiger was a beast 💪😎
Esto es una obra de arte de lujo , los tanques de ahora no tienen esa inponencia como estas piezas históricas, tan duro debió ser la guerra que solo con ver estos tanques trasmite mucho poder intimidacion el respeto de los adversario toda la intención de la guerra en un tanque!!!
Tiene 75 años de aver pasado a ser obsoleto pero aún es intimidante
Te da la sensación de letal
I was detailed out during O.S.U.T. at Ft. Knox in '91 to a King Tiger restoration project. It was only one day, but it was an excellent day! In it I saw the origins of the M1 Abrams that I crewed.
Hello,
If you mind what are the similarities please?
Cordially.
The Swiss are attempting to get a second tiger2 back to running order , not sure how the project is progressing ,
Can u imagine this juggernaut aiming at you ???? One line comments please let’s have them lol lol
I would be shitting it
Здорово, что эту технику поддерживают на ходу!
if only we could watch it flame about 8 T34s
or be anihilated by an ISU 152 with all it's crew knocked out by inside tank shrapnel wohoo
war is cool isn't it?
LOL ya right....german crews and tanks far superior..
@@BUSTER.BRATAMUS Actually he is correct. Alot of testing done with them. The tiger 2 was as big a piece junk as a tiger 1 but it was close
@@chadjustice8560 Ya thats why they killed T-34s at such a tremendous rate. It was numbers dummy.
I surprised it made it that far without breaking down.
Probably because they ran the engine within the spec of its cooling capacity and kept the gear ratio high to avoid stalling out or overheating, It also probably has all the perks of high quality synthetic oil, modern coolant and bearing grease. This tank will likely outlast a lot of king tigers and still be serviceable in the end.
I'd swap my wife for my own King Tiger, I'd drive it everywhere. To work, to the shops, to the takeaway at the end of my street.
"You must obey the lockdown! Go home at 10pm!" *takes Tiger II out of the garage for a run to the drive-through McDonalds at **10:01*
@@Zog26 It would be amazing, any issues - "Target acquired, fire!"
@@edsmith4995 Or simply drive over them / sweep them with the MG.......
@@Zog26 You're full of superb ideas, and welcome to join my Panzer crew 😜
@@edsmith4995 I was ace at Battlezone (with the two stick controller) so bagsy driver :-) Stay well mate.
Can you imagine as an allied soldier seeing this monster coming around the corner?
Fuck that XD
Tanks get less dangerous the closer you are to it.
@@laurencesumagui9244 goodluck trying to get close before turned into ground meat XD
Thats why tanks have infantry support
@@laurencesumagui9244 goodluck getting crushed
Old M1 tanker here, and the Tiger II is still one of the most beautiful tanks ever built. 70 tons of badassery.
It would've been amazing if one day Tiger 233 could run alongside Tiger 131.
Just a matter of transport, which is probably rather difficult considering this or that Tiger I weighs a shit ton.
I would say, hold that thought!
Certainly not impossible. The Dutch brought the King Tiger to Overloon, for Militracks, from Saumur, in France. It would be a relatively simple matter to bring the Model E from Bovington in the future. We may yet see these two machines side by side!
@@hionmaiden663 Do you know something the rest of us do not???
@BlitzVlogger it isn't that heavy, only 65t, get a high power truck and you can easily get it where you want. As for crossing the ocean, ships nowadays are absolutely massive,another 65t won't even itch
Imagine seeing this tank for the first time, and you thought the Sherman was bad ass.
There is a story of 1 Sherman crippling a Tiger II by ramming it. That"s more badass.
впервые тигр 2 появился на восточном фронте , во время боя 7 таких танков даже не заметили , думали это пантера такая ))) странная
Here's the real bottom line in comparing the Sherman to the Tiger II:
Shermans produced: 49,324
Tiger II's produced: 492
@@russellmurray3964 Yeah the Shermans are like "we outnumber you a hundred to one"
@Kartikey Kasniya Also Tiger 2: HANS ZE TRANISSMISON BROKE
IS-2: You can’t defeat me
Tiger: I know, but he can..
*Tiger II appears*
every tank can defeat IS-2.
Tigers could also be defeated by any other tank.
@BlitzVlogger of course it can. But also an M8 Greyhound can destroy a tiger. Or an Su-76
@BlitzVlogger yeah true, stupid commies
Alexander Gauland An M8 could only damage the tanks rear at a very close range only with repetitive shots. That is how the rare confrontation of the two vehicles played out, any tank in world can be destroyed or damaged in the back of the hull also that whole scenario is something you would expect in a game of War Thunder and I never would of thought something like that could actually happen in real life.
@@lordmegatron7359 I know. I only tried to point out that you dont need a heavy tank to destroy another heavy tank. Panzer 5 can easily kill IS-2 also. No need for a Tiger I or II
Can't imagine feeling the terror of being one of the first allied troopers who saw one of these encroaching upon their positions during WW2
Most where stationed as artillery
Its introduction was underwhelming. In the West, in small French towns, it was easily dispatched with side shots. In the East, the first attack was ambushed by IS-2s and T-34/85s, and routed, with no Soviet losses. (And THREE Tiger IIs were captured intact.)
@@scentOfish22 they were first used en masse during the beginning of the Battle of the Bulge.
Then they saw the thing break down in a cloud of smoke from the transmission and suddenly weren't as afraid.
@@jasoncarswell7458 Yeah... cute story with post war hindsight.
IN reality the US troops suffered from Tiger phobia more than anyone else, constantly reporting encounters with Tigers and Tiger kills, more so than Germany ever had to begin with + in places where there weren't even any.
Jesus Christ that creaking, clanking roar must have been fuel for nightmares for veterans for decades.
This tank wasn't very successful for many reasons though
@@clint4637 I say that the Tiger 2 is an extremely formidable tank on the battlefied but it doesn't come close to the best in terms of other internal problems that this tank has
@@clint4637 And all those reasons was not enough could be made.
@@stevem2323 was also too complex, took forever to repair if they shit down and needed a whole workshop to repair, Sherman's could be repair on the field cause how simple they were
@@clint4637 That's completely different subject, but the bigger problem for Germans was allied bombings and factory being obliviated.
8:33 they play “eye of a TIGER” while the king TIGER shows up
So ironic. Lol
@@LITTLE1994 but make sense. The eyes of a tiger is very timidating.🐅💀👀
@@jbfcbzveq.8888 ya eye of the tiger was kinda cringey in my opinion
Yes, also the lyrics 'the last known survivor'👍🎶😲
Congrats, you found the point of playing the music at that time...
Made in Germany. It will cost you your last shirt but it is worth it!
"it is worth it"
I know, right? Without it, they couldn't have won the war.
Oh wait.
@@Gj23jk2 Let's be honest, it is worth it because the Germans does not have many resouces. If i had to choose between mass produce 75-76mm tank that are disposable but need high resouce and 88mm high velocity that can withstand many rounds before taken out but also need high resource, i choose 88mm HV. Yes Germany lose the war, but that was because they open too many front, not mostly because their tank sucs (although they did sucs at eastern front during winter)
It kinda isn't. From a technological perspective the Tiger 2 was awesome. Hits hard. Unlikely to get destroyed.
But from an operational perspective the Tiger 2 was bullshit. Too big, too slow, too heavy, too error-prone, combat range that is a joke and very ressource intensive in it's construction and usage. The same you could say to a certain degree about the Tiger 1. But the Tiger one was still more than 10t lighter. Jesus these fuckers couldn't even cross the vast majority of the bridges in europe.
The Panther was definitely the superior design and all around the best german tank from the second world war.
@@chillmaster66 in your opinion ofc.
THE BEST is always EXPENSIVE
That engine sounds like an absolute monster. Lovely tank 😉
Прекрасный, да не прекрасный, проблемы с ним были значительные, вот в серию и не пошел
70 tons of pure German engineering at it's finest. Makes you think that modern MBTs are the same weight, and how they even got the Maus to move. Would have loved to see the Lowë and E series.
Bro its Löwe 😉
@@Mike-eu3yz Right, sorry. I'm still learning German haha.
@@TigerBaron 😊👍
Sadly Löwe and E 100 was never produced if i am right...
@@stateservant e100 was made but brits melted it..
Hurrah for French Colonel Aubrey that helped save this tank!He even had painted 233 on the side to honor the tiger that destroyed his tank!
Just wow :o
great again
He definitely surrendered to this tank more than once lol
Paul ice you didn't win the war Yank.
Uh oh, another WW2 argument about America 👀
60 dislikes are from t-34s
No. - IS-2
M4 shermans
Churchills
Почему это Т-34? Может Sherman...
SU 152
5:29 Imagine being an allied infantryman, and seeing a King Tiger emerge around a bend in the road like that, sunlight shining on that behemoth. I feel like that would have a massive psychological impact - a real “oh F&CK!” moment, when you feel that simultaneous shot of adrenaline dump into your chest.
One M10 crew reported how they'd spotted one perpendicular to them, coming up a side street in a French town, and that they'd put a 3-inch projectile into the side. The Tiger II came to a stop, but didn't burn.
In those situations, the Tiger II gave away most of its advantages, and an M10 could hole a Tiger II almost as easily as a Tiger II could hole an M10.
Thats are real footage of battle of bulge hahahha
that gives you the brown camouflage pants instantly xD
Más miedo fue encontrarse un Sherman con un king tiger aún a 1 kilómetro de distancia el tiger era letal
Imo the most beautiful tank ever made
I agree it is
Every modern tank is all based from the tiger tanks
@@christopherwallace6072 it was Panther i belive who inspire every modern tank, but by the shape, i agree with you.
@Andrew W Shape
@Andrew W I meant the hull and turret
It was an incredible tank! from Russia with respect.
Yes it is
Until that tank starts heading east👀
@@dodgyfella9506 the tiger II was made during operation bagration not Barbarossa.
5:30 my mans being hunted by the big cat
lmao
Lol
*Get over here!*
When you say psstpsstpsst
Tiger 1 und Tiger 2 sind und bleiben Legenden .da kommt kein russischer und kein alliierter Panzer mit.
Just imagine being able to drive this beauty...
It would probably be finicky as fuck, lets not forget is a 75+ year old machine.
A couple of lucky local experienced drivers got the chance that weekend.
You won't get very far in it)
@@mihailstepanov1243 Just keep the rpms below 2000, and shift correctly and this will take you to the front lines
Not beauty . He is handsome
All hail the "KING!!!"
Thats the most feared tank in ww2 king tiger is the bravest tank
But in 1944 the allies captured it to use
@@wehrmachtsoldier5306 really? So allies use king tiger?
@@wehrmachtsoldier5306 jagdtiger appears!
@@wehrmachtsoldier5306
Sturmtiger was the most fearst !
5:33 The Chieftain running for his life 😂
He is Scared
The world : what an engineering masterpiece, we must save them for museums !
Brits : nah, let's melt them and make some Mini Coopers.
Talking about the country with the only running tiger I....
@@gabrielcooper1248 and the country that melted the only e-100
@ianh There was one almost complete hull. It was brought back to britian for evaluation then scrapped in the 60s, there are alot of old photos of it.
Considering Britain scrapped even its own battleships...
Actually we have two King Tigers, a running Tiger I (the only one in the world) and a Jadgtiger in our national tank museum. Why you feel the need to pick on us when they were destroyed in vast numbers by other countries isn't clear - perhaps you would like to elaborate? If you are from the United States, your hypocrisy is breathtaking since the only King Tiger in your country is mothballed in a yard and not even on show to the public.
15:30 The crowd looks ominously like they are giving it that 'salute'....
If there was ever a time to do it just once....
MrVolvobloke
Looks more like people holding up their phones for photos. But again . . .
@Andrew W
Always someone like you on a video like this. I 💩 on your ugly plane lol. This tank is beautiful and could destroy any other tank in ww2. The reliability issues of the Tigers and Panther are inflated, they had decent reliability all things considered. Tiger II was fairly fast for its weight, I have a video of it, HISTORICAL footage with a captured Tiger II that proves it. This Tiger is almost 80 years old, they have to drive it very carefully because it's the only one that still works. And after a few days of running every day, I can tell you that it works and sounds much better than in this video.
@Faby Ana And frustratingly few people like you on these :c It's incredible how much damage propaganda can do even decades later. I'm surprised that the MG42 isn't considered trash like the American training videos had to say to get anyone in front of them.
And hey, another girl who appreciates these :D
@Andrew W I was going off the (probably paraphrased) "but don't worry, it's bark is worse than it's bite" bit that I had seen in a training film.
Can’t imagine what the American infantry felt like when they saw this coming their way
My guess is somewhat terrified. But on the plus side, no one who saw this coming at them suffered from constipation for long.
Paul Zink Hope they had spare undies.
I'd say they felt the piss running down their legs! LOL and I say this as an American....
My jaw was dropping just seeing this huge thing rumble along the muddy track-and I'm not even facing it as a hostile soldier.
J May As an Aussie I reckon, there were some made bastards out there that took them on and won. You'd need the perfect hit or you'd be gone.
Why this tank is so beautiful ? I compare it to modern day tanks and no tank look as pretty and badass as this king tiger - a masterpiece
It was a gas guzzler and a logistical disaster. Many were pushed into lakes because they were garbage.
Looks aren’t everything yankee.
@@ironhell813 Try telling that to the Soviets and Americans who had the misfortune of running into one.... this thing was lethal, a step ahead of everything anyone else had until the Pershing made its debut...
Ha! There was a 90 yo German tank engineer on YT that said that the tigers were junk and when they ran into a 34 and disabled it they pushed their tiger into the lake and took the Russian tank.
He said the tigers were notorious for being unable to be used because they consumed too much gasoline.
They were often abandoned and there is one in France that is now a monument that was left where she ran out of gas lol
Toughness doesn’t matter when you’re outnumbered.
German engineering was and still is monumental... no wonder Sherman tank crews suffered from tiger fear ...
Andrew Morris nice tank u have there it will be a shame if a P47 Thunderbolt flew overhead basically tiger 2 only fear is artillery and air raids
@Kkdkdkfkkf Genjdjdkd go and educate yourself and look it up .. there was at best 1 firefly in a group of 5 Sherman's and plenty of ex tankies acknowledgement of the term tiger fear for very good reason..
@Kkdkdkfkkf Genjdjdkd There is a documentary here on YT where they interview a few old US WWII veteran tankers, and they all said that if they had to pick a tank it would have been the Tiger every time.
yeah but numbers always wins
@@SPACEHARICE yeah I doubt weight of numbers made the tank crews of Sherman's feel any better when they saw Sherman's bursting in flames all around them while their own rounds bounced off the tigers
700hp v12 petrol engine
So basically, its a lambo.
Sadly while it was a very good engine. It was still wasn't enough for the Tiger II tank. Still consider underpowered and a mechanic's nightmare. These tanks like the Panthers and Tigers I were always suffering mechanical problems on the field.
@@RedWolf777SG not sadly though, just as well all this was a failure for the NAZI's
@@CJB- not a failure, 1 tiger 2 commander got 500 confirmed tank kills with that.
The tiger tank is my all time favorite, it is a bad ass tank
I have been there, and the ground was in vibration, wow
That thing weigh 70 ton
@@DrJones20
nope it weighs 140,000 pounds
Use tons you imbecile
@@theprfesssor which is roughly the same as 70 tons....
@@dudel39
👍😉
Fire the damn gun!!!
that might be a bit difficult im afraid
ammo, fixing the gun, permits, being in germany
And I think it's difficult to get ammo for a kingtiger
@Matt no flak 88 has 88x571r de.wikipedia.org/wiki/8,8-cm-FlaK_18/36/37#/media/File:88_mm_AT_shell_Wings_over_Wine_Country_2007.JPG tiger 2 88x822r de.wikipedia.org/wiki/8,8-cm-KwK_43#/media/File:88x822-mm-R_Granatpatrone_Munster.jpg
@Matt you confused it with the tiger 1 that was the 88flak the tiger 2 gun was different same with the panter 75mm and the pz4 f2 gun. same caliber around the same projectile but different casing so impossible to interchange. Same with the shell of the stg44 and karabiner 98k
Meki Katt .
If they ever gave an award for the most beautiful tank, the Tiger II wins it hands down! Still an impressive and lethal machine, after 75 years!
ahahah poor child ...
Lethal to maybe armored hummers but the shells would ricochet off a m1a1
Robert Theflyinhawaiian I totally agree.
operation unknown who mentioned anything about pitting it against anything modern? This is 70odd years old. Appreciate it for what it is. This was leaps ahead of anything else during ww2. A phenomenal piece of engineering. Sure it had problems but it was still an awesome piece of kit.
depends what shell they use (:
Breakdowns? Yes. Transmission failures? Yes. BUT--- Frontal armor of the King Tiger never pierced in combat. FACT
because it was out of the fight, broken down or outta' gas.
Frontal armor, frontal armor -- whoopy do !!! A King Tiger with its track shot through or a road wheel blown off is still put out of action ------------- except as a stationary firing point.
@@roberth.goddardthefatherof6376 no your picture does not have any context, nor does it prove that it is a picture of a tiger 2.
*laughs in KV-2, IS-2, and 76 millimeter*
It was never pierced in the western front, but if it comes to russians 122, 152 and 100 mm cannons are going to have a discussion with you
What a formidable beast! I have a photo, that my father took, of a knocked out King Tiger somewhere in France during WWII. Though disabled he said it was still very impressive.
glareola Wow you do realize that King Tiger Number 100 during the battle of Burlin destroyed over 100 soviet tanks just one of them they had to abandon it because they ran out of ammo not invincible sure nothing is but this was a beast non the less
That story can't be verrified though. The Soviets lost countless of vehicles and tanks in Berlin, which is understandable considering the nature of urban warefare, where some anti tank weapon or even just a soldier with a Panzerfaust could stand around every corner, window or ruin. It would have been very surprising though, if the German army could even get enough rounds together to supply a Tiger 2 in Berlin with the necessary rounds to destroy 100 tanks. The Tiger 2 was a fearsome tank, but just like the Tiger 1 it was glorified and there are more myths than actuall facts floating around the internet.
@Eric Hartmann why he didn't angle well the lower plate and the frontal plate...mistake
@@yacinealg152 Not a mistake, a design decision based on real engineering considerations. Actual design work depends on more factors than just some notion about "more armor plate slope is the best". Try actually looking at the effective armor thickness presented at multiple angles of impact, and then look at how increasing the slope of a plate affects the interior space and layout (remember, the crew, final drive housing, etc., has to go somewhere)- then you are beginning to scratch the surface of what all goes into it. Not just making models of the outside however you want it to look.
lieninger sorry sir, i forgot about what we were talking about, but i think we were talking about the TIGER design, yeah, you are right about what you told me
One of the most beautiful sounding engines out there.
kinda sounds like a stuka
💙💙💛💛
What an imposing monster it was...! Just to watch it today sends chills down my spine ! It looks like a today's tank, not a 70 year old Museum piece !
While it certainly dosent look modern, it really doesn't look that old, but in the other hand, think about T-54, that thing was put to mass production in 1947! And still looks quite fresh
@@AveragePootis - T-54 ? Sorry, I never heard of it.
@@stargazer1744 russian tank
@@romjen.7537 - We're talking about PANZERKAMPFWAGEN, man....not tin toys...!
@@stargazer1744 i mean srsly tin toys?
One noisy mo fo now you know what death sounds like I can just imagine being in a fox hole at the Ardennes and hearing this thing coming
these tanks were designed and built quickly and rushed into battle. pretty good for a rush job but there were obvious weaknesses. more engine power and speed would have made a big difference.
it would be cool to install one of the newer 1500hp engines in one of these to see what it could do.
Backfiring because they didn't run the engine on idle for 20 mins. before " unloading " it....and a good tune-up wouldn't hurt either. But...She does look good :-))
The old large scale gasoline engines tended to backfire even under perfect circumstances. With such a large cylinders, its far too easy to have an incorrect mixture at least somewhere once you release the accelerator.
Personally, I think the Tiger 2's overall silhouette looks like something that could work as a modern tank. There was a model that fit a 105mm cannon at one point anyway. Though three glaring things that obviously need changing are the engine (switch it for diesel), a transmission that lasts longer than (from what I hear) 5kms and obviously ditching the overlapping road wheels and have just five or six wheels on either side.
Well that model was never built because even from blueprints they could tell the gun could barely fit, especially with all the crew members in the tank.
Dam.. the best looking tank ever made .great work by all big thank-you.. Terry
t.j johnson tiger 1 looks better
@@goldy_on_pc930 I like both
@@hendrikkiefer3325 oo
@@goldy_on_pc930 tiger I looks like a box
Things keep going as they are that tank will end up in Ukraine
Those tracks are so |-----------------------| wide. That turret is so huge. What a beautiful beast. I never thought I'd get to see a Tiger II like this! This video was a real treat. Thanks for sharing and big congrats to these guys caring for the tank! It looks magnificent!
its for the weight of the tank heldps displace the weight evenly, it also helps with tractions,, unofortunatly its not something the panzer 3-4's had so they got stuck alot in the bogs and snow in russia. Something the T34'S had a huge advantage because they had very wide tracks for such a light tank
@@jeepsblackpowderandlights4305 I agree Jacon and will add the T-34 was the most pivotal weapon the Russians had to turn the tide. An exceptional design doing everything well that a tank was expected to do. It won the "greatest tank of all time" in a western documentary that took into account the immediacy of its need, the shock it gave to the enemy, the speed it could travel over rough terrain, not to mention the incredible speed it was deployed (often unpainted, unfinished), the sloping armor, even the short 76 was enough gun to fight back against the Panzers and win. But keep in mind that late in the war, the Soviet military leadership instructed its troops only to capture and use the IIIs and IVs and to leave the Tigers and Panthers where they were found because they were too unreliable (transmission, engine, suspension). Tiger II just wasn't practical; so many problems due to weight and fuel, it killed itself more than the enemy did.
@@fifteenbyfive not sure about panthers. Only eaely models were bad i heard. They made almost as many panthers as panzer 4s. They were a better tank than the tiger 1 and 2
There's a cutaway tank and turret in the Patton museum. Unbelievable how thick that metal was!
@@keithchrysler3732 Oh cool. Yeah the front armor was invulnerable to everything in all probability. I have to think the order of the day was calling in air power to deal with even one of these monsters. If not then at least get suppression, or immobilization in the ideal case. Or make it get kinda stuck or have to do a lot of work and hopefully break down, or whatever else we come up with lol I'm sure Germany's enemies got creative. Lessons learned with the Tiger would also apply here.
Best Tank ever! And one of the best looking one!!! German Engineering!!!!!!!!
No not the best tank ever, the best looking yes. The best WO2 tank was the Panther. This one looks like it,s big sister
@@dickvansteijn4115The Panther was a sexy tank but actually shocking ineffevtive when you look at the combat reports. shermans ran rings around them in head to head mardhups.. Sure, they had that terrifying gun, but they could be killed from the front by an average Sherman if its gunner knew what he was doing, and the Sherman was built better -- more agile, easier to operate, made of better materials, and each crew station carefully optimized.
In engagements between the Sherman and the Panther, real head to head engagements, the Sherman saw the Panther first 66% of the time, even when the Panther was lying in ambush. That meant that a lot of the paper deficiencies of the Sherman were negated by vastly superior crew initiative.
*WOW, AMAZING TO SEE ONE RUNNING. MUSEUMS ALSWYS HAVE SOMETHING MISSING SO THEY CANNOT RUN. EXAMPLE THE GEAR BOX, STEERING MECHANISM IS USUALLY GONE. THERE ARE NOT MANY TIGER 2'S COMPLETELY RUNNING. THANK YOU FOR UPLOADING THIS RARE GEM!!*
"She was always my favourite as a kid, and now that I see her, she's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen."
did you just assume xirs gender 😡
@@FixedFace the fuck you come from?
@@_rk553 from canal :D
Dr grant
Soory not want to sound nitpicking but it was a king not a queen so technically it's not she ,like Bismarck whic was called he by Germans not she well Nazis hasd some real issues with women iguess
This engine sound. Honey for my ears.
Maybach Engine ?
Correct.
If I won the lottery I wouldn't be buying a Ferrari I would rather drive this be cool going down the shops in it ripping up the tarmac
Trickster Mixer great for Maccas drive thru.
I think you’d find it hard not to destroy anything.
Before u rip any tarmac,tanks gon break down like always
all at a blistering speed of a leisurely walk by an elderly man :))))
Anarchy The Fox i know right. And the roadwheels are where they are to protect the crew even more. Not easy to penetrate through the wheels. I would rather have a hard time repairing my tank than die ;(
Thanks for sharing. I made a 1/16 scale remote control model years ago. Seeing the real tank close up must be an awesome experience. A most impressive machine for the time.
Considering how little time and under what conditions this tank is made, it is definitely the best tank. Imagine that the Germans had time and materials
Germans HAD time and materials, but should have not freeze armour development for almost TWO years (not that I complain...), start with Panther earlier on, iron out problems and go for "Uhu" variant with first primitive night vision. Long-barrel, long-round 76mm was quite adequate for blasting every tank of WW II anyway. What Germany lacked was, among other things, unified command in military and R&D, fuel ... not to mention several other factors.
then you'd be seeing a video of maus in action
All of the photos would have been so much better if the people were in uniform, it would have been Great
still an impressive machine, even by today’s standards
That V12 has the best sound ever
Listen 10Д100 ;)
@@KGB_watch_you no
15:16 Salute! All hail King Tiger!!!
Everything is fine and dandy untill...
"Hans, ze transmission broke."
Nein gut
Oberleutnant! das Getriebe ist kaput😭
Hanz the engine caught fire again
JAWHOLLLL get Rudolf to remove dassss SASUAGGGEEE From DIE tailpipe
@Acoustic02 _ so why did the the third Reich lose? FFS maybe a massive reason was the compulsion for vanity projects, massively complex arms procurement and a shortage of strategic materials. Germany was finished in 1941 and not equipped for a long war. No resources, no easy access to the sea and a secret weapon - Mr Hitler. Oh, and crap transmissions on their latest tanks. Das ist gut? Ya!
I can only imagine the terror that the allied tankers would feel when they saw this monster slowly lurch towards them only to unleash the roar of its massive gun.
Tigers didn't lurch slowly towards enemies, they where ment ti sit and ambush transfering tank columns and other armored vehicles, they mostly sit in a Bush and wait
@@jungothemal7201 the panthers and stug 3 were ambush tanks
FIRE THE CANNON! 😂 is it a dummy cannon? Enemy 3000 meters sir. Start from the left, fire!
It's an M1A1 sir, they're traversing their turret toward us! Sir? Hey where'd everybody go?
"What do you drive these days?"
"Oh, it's a V12 Maybach!"
"A V12 Maybach? That ought to get you some mixed reactions!"
"Yes, you can say that."
*smiles and thinks of the one time a Sherman commander fell over while abandoning his tank, revealing a set of soiled pants*
Even for today standards,this is a Beast of a Machine. With 78 years.
A Magnificent Machine.
Watching this makes me think of what it must have looked and felt like with the King Tigers trying to advance through the hilly and wooded terrain in the Ardennes in December 1944 during the Battle of the Bulge. They were big, powerful tanks, but painfully slow in this kind of setting; being restricted to narrow dirt roads and tight passageways.
I bet this tank can still kick ass almost 80 years later
It would have a great bonus to see that turret do a full 360 🤔
This is insane, I'm getting my delivery of one of these next week. I like last years model better but this years model get better fuel mileage so I had to weigh the pros and cons.
LMAOO underrated comment!
Bro did you just order a tank
The King (Tiger 2) in English. 490 built from 44-45 with about 10 remaining worldwide today. Another 7 or so Tiger 1's are around also.
That 88 mm canon and two MG 34 machine guns...made this tank quite the defensive weapon. It could move also (40-45 kmh on good roads), but usually crawled along at 23-28 kmh.
Simply stated it was the benchmark for heavy tanks.
It was complex to build and very costly also. Thus, the limited numbers.
One Tiger took out 22 T-34's and held back over 50. Another set of Tigers held back the whole American army invasion for a few hours in the Western front.
Not one Tiger was ever taken out from the front, not one.
Germany lost a lot due to poor maintenance and high maintenance schedules though, and it ate up 3 gallons per mile, a fuel hog.
Simply the tank in that era until others caught up. The Russians and the British captured Tiger 1's and reversed engineered them effectively.
The Tiger 2 manuals were written in "cartoon fashion" with scantly dressed women sketched throughout the manual to keep the mechanics and engineers...well, reading the manual.
None of these are known to have been taken out from the front because there were almost none left by the time 90mm HVAP projectiles made their way to the front. Stateside, however, in firing tests, 90mm HVAP projectiles defeated Tiger II front plates. So, the notion that no Tiger II was ever frontally penetrated during the war is false.
@r.j.dunnill1465 Good luck getting that perfect shot on the turret face (the only place HVAP could penetrate) from 1000 yards away or more. Meanwhile the KT can shoot you just about anywhere and he will most likely knock out your tank, crew and all. This goes for the 'Super Pershing' too.
And the KT had the same engine as a little old Panther! That it outweighed by at least 10 tons. Only 450 were ever made, less than half of those ever made it to the battlefield. But the King Tiger wreaked destruction everywhere it appeared. The frontal armor of the KT was never penetrated by ANY allied anti-tank weapon.
The frontal armor of the KT is not known to have been defeated in combat by any Allied AT weapon, but it certainly was on the testing range. The U.S. shipped Stateside various captured German AFVs where Ordnance subjected them to firing tests. Ordnance concluded the T30E16 HVAP round would defeat the glacis out to 100 yards and the gun shield out to 800 yards.
Incredible! It reminds me of when I built a King Tiger tank model as a child.
Wow what a beast. One of my favorites. Imagine a columb of these and the roar they'd make. Tuned up not backfiring.
Where is the Leibstandarte AH 's panzer SS crew...?
Dead
@@UrsulavonB funniest fucking response ever 👏👏👏
Around, in the air, enjoying
What even is this question 😂😂
Would love to have one of these in my garage to take out on the weekends!!!
If someone else pays for the maintainence.
@@jefftheriault7260 And the fuel. I don't think it does too many miles to the gallon! My friend had a small Daimler Dingo scout car and that only did eight miles on a gallon of fuel. I can only imagine what sort of gas this thing guzzles.
I saw one at Bovington Tank Museum this year.You cannot appreciate how big they are until you see one in person.Monsters.
yeah they are absolutely gigantic, they seem invincible
Allied Tanks were mere Agricultural equipment compared to German tanks.
Freaking classy as a Mercedes coupe.
Problem was they got heaver and bulkier, German over engineering was not needed.
Simply keep the crew somewhat safe and blow things up with low maintenance, they had the crew safe and blow things up down.
But replacement parts could not be salvaged from other vehicles and with the factories being bombed day and night parts got scarce.
It was always needing something done to it to keep it fit.
Sherman's could run circles around them but had no armor to take an 88mm round.
They had to ascend on them like a pack of wolves and hit them from behind and or take out the drive, then go in for the kill.
Still a bad ass piece of brilliant iron, nothing like it.
That backfire is not good, these pieces of history should be running top shelf all the time.
As classy as a Mercedes coupe that broke down/outta' gas and will only run again in 70 years around a muddy show track.
I keep hearing this argument but it's an obvious fallacy. The Germans had no option but to go for quality because they simply didn't have the numbers. And I am not talking about numbers of tanks. I am talking about numbers of crews. In fact even during the last year of war Germany was producing plenty tanks and aircraft. What they didn't have was manpower and of course oil. So with that in mind you want to keep your limited resource alive as long as possible so you give him a Tiger. The allies had no such concerns. So having 5 Ronsons go up for every Tiger was no biggy. Rather callous though.
Представляю ночью такого услышать по улицам. Сразу кирпичи отложишь, подумаешь, что немцы восстали. Такого монстра увидеть
@@ФедорЗурта Бандэровец? (с) Брат 2.
Ещё осталось по зиговать недобиткам
Would be amazing to see the KT make a top speed test run, just to see this giant scoot along at 40+ kph, but they no doubt don't want to stress the engine...
40kph would more than stress the engine that was dash speed for emergency I'm sure 25 to 30kph was cruising speed
@@Eric-kn4yn One thing that is problematic with the HL 230 in this config is just how much the weight can fluctuate on the crankshaft depending on the terrain of which no amount of revving can keep the bearings lubricated and cool when it encounters immediate asymmetric terrain while going that fast. Roads and open fields are probably ok if they are not aggressive with the shifting.
Its a bit scary to think this vehicle must've been the last thing many people in the war saw before their deaths.
The most feared war machine in WW2! 👍
Jagdtiger with its 128mm gun was too.
An absolute masterpiece!
Only riders in Panzer crew uniforms should be allowed on it (for aesthetics). And someone should give it an ambush paint job. Get Hollywood to write up a movie like, "Last Tiger" etc. and use the $$ to rebuild the Maybach engine.
Yes, It's a pity to spend so much time restoring a tank and then riding it in modern civilian clothes. It's really weird and it spoils some of the fun of seeing the beast. What is worth for a German tank is worth for an armored vehicle of any nation, it's just as weird to see people on an Medium Tank M4 in shorts and flip-flops.
So, it's my personal opinion. But obviously, people who restore vehicles do not have the same.
goratgo 70 yes!
goratgo 70- 2nd SS Panzer Div. "Das Reich" markings on the Tiger would look great.
The left bank of the engine looks like it is burning oil. It probably does need a rebuild.
US uniforms would be OK too, we did capture a few intake.
If I was a multimillionaire I’d have to upgrade engine and transmission. All these gorgeous German monsters seemed plagued by undersized engines and problematic transmissions. Still for aggressiveness of design they were unmatched. I’ve loved them since I was a model builder as a kid.
Thank you for sharing this! I'm a WWII historian by hobby, and I've never seen such a pristine Model of the King Tiger than this! It is AMAZING! I can now better appreciate the comments of WWII Allied Tankers regarding this formidable Tank!! Where was this filmed at?! Once again thanks for sharing this!
Samur, French war museum, this tank was captured in Normandy. But it can be the Overloon one? is that one running?
The experience the Americans had with it gave impetus to the M103, which the Army quickly soured on.
5:30 The King Tiger is chasing that small man XD
The king tiger looks sleek, deadly, and modern even today 75 years later...the 88 mm gun was so powerful it would penetrate two Sherman tanks parked side by side, and the projectile would exit the second tank.
That's assuming the Pzgr 40/1 projectile yes? Because Pzgr 39/43(the primary AP round) had a bursting charge. If the charge didn't go off, yeah absolutely but if it did, no it probably wouldn't. But thats the nature of bursting charges in general
I am so VERY, VERY JEALOUS!!!!! of these guys riding on such a machine
I have wanted to see & especially hear one of these incredibly rare King Tiger tanks for a very long time. It's a special treat to actually hear the Maybach engine running 🫡
@markengel6570 I agree. You would think that by the time the King Tiger was made that Germany would've learned that a V10 or better yet a V12 diesel engine was the superior choice, especially in an enclosed environment of a main battle tank.
@@markengel6570 Very interesting.
_King Tiger.. you're a legend...
_Ich weiß!!!!
Just think how impressive (and frightening) it would have been, had it had a diesel engine, instead of gasoline (highly combustible and explosive, in confined spaces), a neutral steering gear, like on the Panzerkampfwagen V Panther, and a heavier duty final drive. The final drive on German tanks was a straight spur gear. On the Shermans, it was double herringbone. The final drive on the Sherman was the better technology and design - more gear teeth, more surface area, less overall torque applied to a single gear tooth. With a straight spur gear, that's a whole lot of force concentrated on one gear tooth. Also, the final drive was rated for a Panzer IV, something in the 32-35 ton range. Everything from the Panzer V onward weighed in excess of 45 tons, so they could never go as fast as earlier models.
Too heavy, slow, not very maneuverable and fuel-hungry. The effect of German gigantomania.
For being almost 80 years old, and weighing 70 tons, that thing is insane. Most under rated tank in history.
not really because it can barely move itself
It has pretty good mobility considering. The reasons it's crawling in the video is because they won't push it to it's limits.
@@wharris302 Exhaust valve timings are way off on a few cylinders as a result of disrepair to the crankshaft bearings. This tank likely has only 79% of it's full engine capacity.
Underrated? Have you ever red comments on tank videos?!
But it is really a beast.
70 tons with a Maybach engine designed for a 35 ton tank......... it was a mechanical nightmare.
Sounds like those 4 52JFF carbs may be out of sync. Sure is making quite a few pop-backs, unless this was just a common occurrence for the HL230..It sure is a beautiful tank. Although it suffered from reliability issues during the war (mainly due to retaining parts more suitable for lighter equipment) it’s tactical mobility was overall impressive especially when compared to what it was going up against during that time.
Yes, definitely needs some adjustments/tuning. Sounds like its back firing through the intake.