King Tiger - D Day 80th Anniversary 

Well it didn't really pivot, it did use a bit of neutral stearing here and there, but that wasn't a full pivoting turn... though it's understandable as that puts a LOT of pressure on the already overworked transmission. Still amazing to see it run so well after all this years... long live the king

Wasn't a pivot turn.

@@willghezzi Nice to hear someone who's familiar with the Great Cat's drive-train speak up. I'd bet that it's likely that a surprisingly large percentage of Tiger II tanks were destroyed in place because their transmissions were destroyed by inexperienced drivers trying to drive the 65-ton tank like a car. The tank WAS capable, but just barely. The newest German tank designs stress mobility and they are almost ridiculously agile.

@@DavidSmith-ss1cg if you want to learn more about that military history visualized made a very good video about that called "tiger tank effective beasts or kittens" or something like that

The Tiger 2 had a gearbox problem originally. But a few years ago they decided to do an overall to correct it. Since, it run smoothly. At first they kept it in this state because it was like that originally, but the Tiger II is aging, so it was not possible to keep it that way because it could have been damaged at some point.

@@karakiri283 That's nice to know. Good call by them if they keep rolling it on shows. Final drives love that decision too.

You could roll right through a house no problem. Impressive.

All the Big Katz were Pretty 😍

Но войну просрали 😂

Was underpowered, It's a shame, a good diesel 1200hp would be perfect for him. Thing about that's 70ton tank, and a 700+ hp engine, it's around 10hp per ton of steel, too low weight to power ratio.

@@XDSingularity a 1200hp Diesel with its twice as much torque as the Maybach would definately destroy or damage its gearbox or drive shafts or endgear reduction or steering.

You can turn the steering wheel with one finger. It's ground pressure is good with it's 32 1/2 inch wide tracks.

​@@davidtorre7370 This i trueee but the transmission isn't designed to handle 70Tons let alone the engine it can barely handle the Jagdtiger barely they break under to much stress

It sounds more like a tractor than a tank.

😆 The Allies don't stand a chance!

@@bundywaters5988 Yeah..well.. They should not really do turns. If you retreat you back up. Otto Carius described how a late war poorly traned crew turned around and tried to escape in a Jagdtiger, resulting in US tanks hitting the rear and destroying the Jagdtiger. If the commander had backed up, the Shermans would not have had a chance in penetrating the front armor.

The M10 (including all tanks on Sherman chassis) had a minimum turning diameter of 62 feet (R.P. Hunnicutt) which equates to a turning radius of 9.5 meters. It needed a 35kgs. pull on the levers to complete the minimum turn on second gear. At more than double the weight, (69.8 metric tons combat loaded) the Tiger II needed less than half the turning radius at 4.1 meters, (Panzer Tracts) and needed but a 5kgs. force on the levers to complete the turn. The T26 Pershing, with similar turning radius as the Sherman, needed a pull of 37kgs. on the right lever and 39kgs. on the left. The Panther exerted a force of 12kgs./right-lever and 15kgs./left-lever for a minimum turning radius of 4.7 meters but only 5kgs. for a 10 meter radius turn. (All information on lever forces from Tank Archives site).

@@joegatt2306 yeah, but that was pure luck or coincidence, or any other excuse if you use the tank museum biased rhetoric

@@Namtov Sorry but I thing you got the wrong guy. What I wrote was neither tales of pure luck, neither coincidence nor museum biased rhetoric but official specifications of tank writers who are the best in their field, (Hilary Doyle, Thomas Jentz & R.P. Hunnicutt). Do you want to know more? No U.S. designed tank could pivot-turn in WW2. The first U.S. operational tank that could do so were the M-46 in 1951 and the M-41when issued with the Allison CD transmissions in late 1943!!!

no, not 1 bit ;-) its a nice design for its time but even at its time there were better tanks upcoming ...like T44 or Patton or IS3

A tank crew today should have enough understanding about armour and penetration to realize the tiger 2 wouldn’t pose a threat to any modern main battle tank. An Abrams, Leopard 2, Challenger or even T72 would easily knock it out, while moving. They have a lot better guns, much better gunsights and better ammo. The only way a Tiger 2 would be able to take out a modern tank is if said tank is stationary, rather close and has its rear exposed to the Tigers gun.

The Tiger II was the best tank of its class during WWII, but it would be hopelessly outclassed by modern MBTs. Modern tanks can fire on the move because of their electronic gun stabilization systems, the engines are much more powerful, modern tanks are much faster and superior armor and ammo. The Abrams is built with a depleted Uranium enriched steel alloy for the armor, and it fires depleted Uranium rounds which would penetrate even the armor of a Tiger II. The Tiger II had a cross country speed of 12-15 mph. The Abrams, weighing nearly 70 tons, cruises along at 35 mph cross country, and 45 mph on road surfaces.

Sorry but time would not be kind to a ww2 tank … a modern tank would obliterate on the move with no problem at all… it just a fact . Same with fighter planes etc just not a fair fight. But it’s still awesome though

@@Resebild Not really true. While a Tiger II obviously has no real chance in a real fight against any modern tank, it can still penetrate the frontal weakspots of several MBT's. Turret rings, driver ports, gun breaches, cupolas of russian tanks are all vulnerable to a long 88. The lower front plates, turret rings and driver ports of several western MBT's as well. And ofc any side shot against any modern MBT at a range of 0-2000m is a guaranteed kill as well.

Very very rare thing even in ww2

I dug that scheme 😮😂❤

Der Motor war viel zu Schwach und das Getriebe dauernd im Arsch! Der Motor war absolut ungeeignet für den schweren Panzer!

This belongs to the Saumur museum, one of the two largest tank museums in the world. In other words, it belongs to the French Army which has "a little more" resources than a simple museum. For the rest we must not forget who invented modern tanks, the French always them, during WW1, with the Renault FT17, the winner of WW1 on the Western Front and the only real ancestor of all tanks current. The French in 1940 also had the best tanks in the world. It was not the quality of the tanks that posed a problem for the French in 1940, but their poor use by a French general staff still stuck in WW1, and who had not read the excellent book in the 1930s on the proper use of tanks, written by a certain young Lieutenant-Colonel Charles de Gaulle, head of a French tank regiment, the German general staff had read this book, some big German generals admitted it later being inspired by it to create their blitzkrieg.... In May-June 1940, if the French and English allies had not been surprised by the bypass of the Maginot line via Belgium, and the blitzkrieg in a perfect aircraft-tank association of the Germans, and therefore France could have continued to fight as a power and a free state until the end, I would have liked to see what the French tanks would have looked like in 1945. They would have been monsters too...

I once read it took around 25 Sherman's to take a Tiger 2 down especially if the Tiger Crew were of a high standard of course by this point in the war that was not the case even if these Tanks were only used by the Elite units the crews would be a mix of veterans crews and very young hard core Nazi Hitler Youth most who were seeing their first combat. So I think more Tigers were lost to break downs with a very stressed drive train and an underpowered engine and poor built quality and a lack of development time. In the correct hands a Tiger 2 was almost unstoppable out ranging every Tank the Allies had but the Money they cost should have gone into building more Panther's and improving what was a much better platform. The Tiger 2 did show the way that Future Tanks would develop with a high powered main gun and good armour & if you look at the Current western MBT Tanks from the UK , Germany and the USA they are all now pushing 70 tons so again armour has become the standard over a medium weight MBT.

492 were built during their short time in service. At the cost of 321 500 Reich's Marks the most expensive tank that Germans put into production during the war. But remember they also used the Hull to make the Monster Jagdtiger fitted with the ever more powerful 12.8 cm Gun.Those were built in very low numbers though only 150 were ordered but only 80 were ever completed. When you think that the current main gun is only in the last few decades is now 120 mm and back then they fitted a 12.8 cm to a Tank is crazy. But Current future German Tanks are now testing 130 mm main guns and even most modern tanks are now around the same weight because of all the extra added armour now been used. The Germans have even used the name Panther again for a prototype future Tank . So who knows maybe we will see the Tiger 3 as a future NATO MBT.

Yes so far it's the only running example in the world. It's also using an original Maybach WWII engine. The tank itself is made from mainly two different tigers. Hull from one, turret from a different Normandy used vehicle.

@@Old.Monkey.Bones. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uKChFgQT9z4.htmlsi=1ixDQmnq_Z8qEQ3n This is a second Tiger ll right?

Currently this is the only Tiger II in running condition and according to the museum it is still using an original Maybach V-12 HL230 engine.

We saw them rotate the turret in the tank park prior to running it so yes on the turret traverse. No idea on the gun elevation sadly but I would hope it does.

Normandy Victory Museum but the tank was there on loan from the tank museum in Saumur.

@@Old.Monkey.Bones. Muito obrigado pela gentileza!

normandy-victory-museum.fr/en/

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@@Old.Monkey.Bones. Muito obrigado pela informação!

? it does have 2 big well protected guards below the pipes around the mufflers

Just the one so far.

@@Old.Monkey.Bones. this is not the paint scheme From the Samir one though

Noch Königstiger es gibt in Frankreich in Musée des Blindés Saumur.

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I disagree. The Tiger I looks best! Looks best of all tanks of all times.

What about Tiger H1

imagine the smell

But there is no Panther in this video.

King Tiger and other one is M10 tank destroyer....American tank....don't know what Lil tanket was...like panzer 2 or 3 with strange road wheels....anyone know?

Это разведывательный танк Рысь, на базе Т2

It is the king of WW2.

@@sirswerve2493 yes

i think most peeps are their just for this beast.

I believe that is 233 renumbered to 300 after the recent repaint.

@@Old.Monkey.Bones. But why renumbered?

Yes that's just what it is.

He was a serving Belgium paratrooper.

The wars been over lol!

Your buddies lost. Google what "To the Victor, goes the spoils" means. They wear what the fuck they want.