Inside the Tanks: The Tiger I - part IV - World of Tanks 

Yeah

Well it was everyone vs German basically

@@CaptYellow331 lol yeah both WW1 and WW2 insane how many lives wasted and cultural loss...

Germany made the best tanks if not had the best idea's for tanks that were realistic.

Nothing like getting information from someone who knows their onions I always say.

T34s were garbage, but only 'few' people know that. It wasnt anything special, they just had alot of them. Even the gun they later had on T-34-85, the 85mm one, was much weaker than 75mm Panther, Pz IVc Stug etc had.

Adrik Bogdanov What ?

Pulssqt It actually was quite special, for example, sloped armor pretty revolutionary and something that the germans copied for their Panther. (Strangely enough they didint add slopes for tiger, but I assume that is for logistic reasons mainly.) What you're overlooking aswell is the cost to manufacture, if you can have 5 T34's at the cost of 1 tiger (numbers are made up here, but the direction of the assumption should be about right), you'll swarm the tigers weak sides with those t34's before the tiger has a chance to destroy them all, making the t34 a winner. M6A1 for example, was never mass produced because it was about the cost of two shermans, which the americans thought would be much more effective in battle than the single M6A1. In short, Quantity will beat quality here. In strictly 1v1 sense the German tanks would be superior, but in real war scenario it comes down to alot more than just that. Also t34's, having the home field advantage, were actually build to fight in snowy/icy battlefields, where-as the german tanks were built for mainly german soil (In hindsight that was quite silly, they should have known where they are sending thise tanks.. One might speculate this was because the german army had the idea of USSR being a poor backwater country that would be crushed before the winter set in. Much like how Napoleon lost his men against The Bear.) All-in-all considering more than just 1v1 basis, T34 was a great tank for anyone but the crew inside it.

Victor Sund Man, did you know about turret problem T34's had untill they introduced T34-85 with 3 man turret ? Did you know that most of T34's never saw combat because they broke down because they were excremley unreliable, and those who saw combat never came back to base. lol Yes, quanitiy was the only advantage of T34.

BMW and Mercedes built engines. Porsche built vehicles (including tanks, competing with some other company) and engines, however their tanks were often too complicated and unreliable. However Ferdinand Porsche did have some components that were completely ahead of his time like the electric transmission. MAN designed ships I think, including submarinez

haahaha

Thats one forward gear more than the Italian tanks.

It's a backworth driving tiger

Unfunny and disrespectful.

French tanks have rear-view mirrors so they can see the front lines.

+ThePostie501 Well, they are complex, but, TBH, most modern humans would have a hard enough time just operating an automobile from the 1940's...

​@@l337pwnage It is still just a carbureted engine on tracks, most classic car enthusiasts would be rolling around neighbourhood within an hour, given the chance.

It's German it has to be over engineered.

:D :D :D Except Russians. I actually owned 2 Ladas and Zaz years ago. WW 1 stuff :D

You just have to take all the same measures in this as with am old gasoline car or tractor from the era. I feared it would be worse!

Willy

Even if you did start it, it would probably break down in 1km anyway.

@@mumzly1 yeap, so many worries about oil leaks, one wonders if it was actually a war machine

or the engine just burst into flames, or the transmission took a shit. Tigers weren't the amazing machine one would think. They were nothing that special. Big gun, yes, lots of armor, yes, but over complicated.

Mumzly04 yeah, I’m sure history got it 100% wrong and German tanks were complete garbage.

Say anything you Tiger-haters want...it just won't change a bit the fact that it was BY FAR the best WW2 tank...and that's the overwhelming opinion among specialists !

to turn the engine first we have to pul the fire starter of the fire starter of the pin that actually fire the engine....

Petr Kotlitel I love these parts of the videos

There is a driver's handbook available.

@@gaborkiss1425 But the driver sounds like they're still just making things up as they go. And the sign "Do not use this fuel falve!" does not exactly scream "Competent crew!"... Also whenever they drive the tank, the sound is off like the driver has no clue how to drive classic stick...They should give it back to Germany or at least allow German engineers to take a look at it and give them some pointers.

jajesam sigurno r/woosh this guy is just teaching you while ww3 came

@@guestuser1671 what? No German engineer is going to know better than any British engineer. The sign is mostly likely because that valve no longer works, the vehicle is over 75 years old and has been shot at.

I know it's ben a year, but I will answer anyway. It's not for laying mines in the conventional sense. They used S-Minen (bouncing bettys) for defence against infantry swarming the tank. Essentialy, they stuff a S-Mine into that shaft and fire it. It would jump out, detonate after about 1.5 meters and shower the tank and it's suroundings with shrapnell. The tank itself would not be harmed by that, any infantry man in the vicinity however...

Bird_Dog Ah yeah, that makes sense, I have seen replicas of those mines and they do some nasty damage. Thanks for taking your time to clear this up!

Tigers built up to the middle of 1943 had launcher tubes for S-mines. They were at the corners of the hull; the tubes on the turret have nothing to do with this. The commander would launch these mines individually using a hand-held controller. The controller box was on a cable attached to the firewall. There was a clip on the firewall to hold the controller, and that label "Minenabwurfschaft" identifies it. But we have two problems; 1. Tiger 131 is missing the S-mine system and probably never had it fully installed. 2. The restorers have put that "Minenabwurfschaft" label out of place.

@@daveybyrden3936 alright, this is what I am talking about. Someone who cares to educate and rake the time for great detail, thanks! Much appreciated 🙏

That kind of shows the age of the Tigers design. It was not uncommon at that time. T-34 also has direct vision ports, so did the Churchill and the Cromwell. Later Panther models where (I think) the first german tank to have no direct vision ports.

The chances of hitting the vision slit are slim to none, and if you have your tiger in distance of infantry able to accurately shoot at the tank, you have already goofed up.

Yes, the driver is vulnerable. A rotating periscope was used in later Panzer designs. But it wasn't retrofitted to the Tiger 1, not even newly built Tiger 1, and that's probably because the tank designers were overstretched.

For historic purposes i guess. This tank is like a temple, and the god of history says DO NOT MODIFY MY TEMPLE, EVEN FOR A SHOWTIME

@@Weisior Not really modification to throw an ipad up over the window and a 1080p webcam pointing out of the tiny viewing slot. (or any viewing slot where you can't see a black webcam hiding behind it)

Radium on the numbers so they glow in the dark.

because the instruments were painted with radioactive paint (radium) to glow in the dark

The first decent tank that the brits made was the Comet. After that they got the hang of it with things like the Centurion which was one of the best tanks of its time.

still lost though

If Germany focused on developing Panther tanks, they would’ve won ww2. Unfortunately they made developments on maus and E 100 which were just slow tanks.

@@anthonyromeo1988 Germany would've done well against a lot of countries 1v1, but I wouldn't say they could take _anyone_

@@anthonyromeo1988 you never asked me anything, what are you talking about? Oh p.s. it's would've, not would of.

TheXtraMan99 lol, indeed...meow.

Chester Kitty sadly he didnt get it

Emmett Ochrach-Konradi haha-meow! ;)

Emmett Ochrach-Konradi much like a neutered dog he doesnt get it

Chester Kitty There is a fully functional king Tiger

+harmless carrot The music is from World of Tanks online game.

you cant

Rotate the meister switch to off and put the right fuel selector lever in the Roman numeral I position.

They should have made it Tier 6 with the shorter 88. Would be far better. Like with the VK 30.02 (M) that is like the actual Panther.

Luigi99MX It would be balanced that way. The VK 30.02 (M) is fine so why wouldn't the Tiger be? That way it would at least have mediocre armor instead of totally crappy like now.

It wasn't so terrifying after d-day. The panther and King tiger were the terrifying ones. www.quora.com/Is-a-Tiger-tank-realistically-as-effective-against-Sherman-tanks-as-shown-in-Fury

+Craig Morgan Lol, nope

A lot military gauges are have the numbers or markings painted with I believe is iridium. This is so that they glow in the dark. It is also very toxic but has only a very low level or radioactivity.

grooveclubhouse I really don't want to be a dick, but, how the hell did you get iridium and radium mixed up? They used radium for gauges!

@@micksquizzy I'm sure lots of people don't even know what iridium or radium are, let alone the difference between them.

No

Yes, S-mines

It has been repainted inside and out, using colours very similar to the originals.

He's one of about 4 people alive that's driven a Tiger. I don't think any armchair expert can do better than him.

Some people don't know we took a lot of German scientists in after the war, in Operation Paperclip. IIRC some V1/V2 rocket engineers even worked at NASA to help put man on the moon.

+Alpha Chinoz (Alphachinoz) Apparently it was painted with radium paint so it would glow in the dark.

+Kaeben Ugh, radium paint. Glowing in the dark, before it was cool :D