Moving the Tiger II "332" into its forever home at NACC Ft. Benning 

That sums it up perfectly. This beast is just awesome👍

The Königstiger's 88 mm KwK 43 was one of the most feared cannon of the WW2 era. No wonder they were less in number.

You admire machine which only role was killing ?

@@mikkei3532 -There always has to be ONE like you, doesn’t there mikkei?

@@mikkei3532 I don't see any problem

100%

Close call between it and the Panther... But it undoubtedly is "King" in the pure beast looks competition!!

Jagdpanther for me.

T-62, it's what is in your mind when you think the thought of a tank ....

Panther and Jagdpanther get my vote in the 'beautiful' category, but as an expression of sheer invincibility this one is a winner.

Also the width of the tracks!

That's 131 right?

@@BattleshipOrion Do you mean the 131 which is the only running Tiger 1 and can be found in the Bovington (UK) tank museum ? There is also King Tiger 231 standing outside a small museum in La Gleize, Belgium. It was left there by its crew when a lucky shot cut off the gun barrel. Too heavy to move I guess and blowing it up wasn't an option, too many houses close-by.

@@flitsertheo Yes. And answers that question.

@@BattleshipOrion Tiger 131 does indeed live at Bovington, but the museum also has 2 Tiger II tanks in it's collection. One with the early curved turret and one with the later boxed turret like in this video. They really are absolute beasts...

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What do you mean? Many modern main battle tanks are in this weight category, not an issue for the millitary to move around them, they are even transported in planes and helicopters..

Imagine moving it in 1944, under fuel shortage and with the roads and bridges of that time.

That exactly was the thought in my head.

Please tell us which helicopters are capable of transportation of M1A tanks. Can't find any US helicopters that could lift more than 44,000 pound. Our largest transport aircraft, the C5A, can only carry a maximum of two Abrams at a time due to weight limits.

Do they still make 88mm ammo?

BergPanther was able to pull King Tiger.

@@AKUJIVALDO I'm only going by Wiki, but it says Bergpanther could pull Tiger 1 and variants, it doesnt mention Tiger 2, but I'm sure they would have tried to see if they could. Didn't realise this vehicle existed though, so thanks for info. As Germans retreating by this stage, they didn't get the time to recover more.

It doesn't take that much effort to pull or move a tank even a big one as long as you don't have too many to handle at any one time or if you are working from interior lines.

Towing one tank by another or a different vehicle is a whole lot easier when you remove the universals from the sprockets leading to the transmission. Then each track can move independently and there is no damage to the transmission or engine.

Was this particular KT moved to the Patton Museum (Ft Knox) at some point? I visited it in the late 70s in High School at Aberdeen a couple of times. It wasn't at the Patton Museum in 1981...

I went to the Patton museum also in 2000 as part of a trip to the USA from the UK for the F1 race at the Indy speedway. I saw the Panther II at the same time.

@@georgeholt8929 unfortunately that's not how the Tiger transmissions work.

@@Replicant9900 Sometime in the late 1990s (I think 99) the army shipped the King Tiger from Aberdeen PG in Maryland to Fort Knox Kentucky. The staff refurbished the vehicle and placed it on display in their indoor museum. Interestingly, they had a number of running WW-II AFV at that time including a Jagdpanzer-IV/70 (ie. Panzer-IV/70(V)), an original Jagdpanzer-38 (so called Hetzer), Swiss G-13, and a diesel powered M3 Stuart. All of them were in beautiful condition (the M3 looked like it had just come off the factory floor). Unfortunately these vehicle were subsequently sent to Fort Benning GA sometime in the late 2000s where, as far as I can see, they deteriorated pretty badly in an outdoor setting for almost a decade. It's nice to see that the current staff seem to be refurbishing them again. However, it doesn't look like the vehicle's I mentioned above are in running condition anymore, but I may be wrong.

Building crude, unreliable, weapons of death and destruction using slave labour?? :) But, yeah, it was always my favorite toy tank as a kid. Just looked bad ass.

Who is „we“?

@@Custer0706 I think he’s using we as in humans

@@gglen2141 Actually yes I think that was his point.

@@theoldefirme4500 In re-reading it I too noticed the word "stark demonstrations" which is close enough to "stark reminders" to get that point across.

You realize though, that a big part of the man power used in producing a Tiger II (or in fact anything else in Late WW2 Germany) was forced and slave labour? So no ‚heroic‘ or ‚patriotic‘ Germans turning up for their shift amidst the destruction of their Reich.

@@moiterei7617 👃

Hmmm, this guy needs to read up on the history a bit more.

@@moiterei7617 You must be real fun at parties.

That is very true that the Germans used people, slaves to work for them... yes just eighty years ago... SLAVERY..... MOST OF THEM WHERE KILLED AS WELL.... AND SOME PEOPLE BITCHING ABOUT 200YEARS AGO... BLAME THE BRITISH FOR THAT... THEY STARTED SLAVE TRADING WITH THE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADERS!!!! HISTORY WILL NOT EVER GO AWAY.

I stand next to a King Tiger at the German Panzermuseum in Munster. It is very impressive and looks even bigger.

@@CL-gw3ws I'd love to make it to Germany and England to see the magnificent Tank museum's!!

Приезжайте в Россию, в Кубинке в музее стоит такая фигня и маус тоже ...

Sloped Armour..Yet Fearsome looks 😃

@@addewasurendra and being true masters of destruction, never forget that.

Germans were way ahead in terms of technology compared to other superpowers till WWII. Then their Prussian military tradition decayed in Allied and USSR zone (Soviet zone still were able to keep some of their traditions alive)

ну да слизанное с т-34 которая и боролась со всеми этими сраными кошками

@@addewasurendra - ...and that awesome 88 gun ! scares the shit out of anyone who sees it coming !

@Krister L We have some Leopards A2 here in Portugal, i stood next to one and i know that feeling

@@MsJoao101 The first tanks I ever saw as a child was an M113 APC, and then just down from it was either a Patton or an M103. I can't remember which it was, but there was also a 155mm field gun on display as well. This is all at Battleship Memorial Park in Mobile, Alabama in the US. They also have a B-52 sitting outside bearing the name "Calamity Jane". There is also the namesake of the park moored there, the battleship USS Alabama.

Quite easy to defeat these later war tanks. Everyone else caught up quickly. Bigger and over engineered doesn't mean better

One high explosive round from a 122mm D-25T is all it would take to knock one out. Also the Firefly, Pershing and Comet wouldn't have much of an issue

Lots of armor and a big gun surely are very impressive, but they don't make an effective tank. The King Tiger had the same problems as Maus, just on a smaller scale: Too big, too heavy and too underpowered to be mobile enough for effective battlefield use (10 HP/ton, Sherman and T-34 had almost 15 resp. 16). Especially if you factor in allied air power and availability of artillery support. - Its armor was often metallurgically sub-par because of late-war shortages. - Gearboxes and final drives were too weak for the Tiger II's weight and often suffered (unrepairable) failures. - The turret drive was too weak to lay the gun while the tank was sitting on too steep an incline. - It couldn't use most bridges and was a bitch to move by rail etc... It IS an impressive beast and very interesting from an engineering standpoint, but severely overrated.

Just wait for it to break down LOL

@@DeerHunter308 Or run out of gas.

Sturmpanzer IV (Brummbär) used to be on display in Munster, Germany at least, so you still have a chance. And while in the country anyway, you might want to check out the museums in Sinsheim and Koblenz for the things you never knew you wanted to see. Especially the latter used to be packed with prototypes and cutaway displays and plenty or curiosities since it's the collection of the German Army's University. 😉

ну с ростом массы пришлось увеличивать ширину гусеницы что бы удельная нагрузка на грунт не давала ему проваливаться - вполне закономерно, у вас же т -28 имеет второй ряд гусениц.... именно для этого

but they have seen worse in theyre lifetime xD

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Too bad it couldn't have been under its own power. Next project...get that beast running! :D

@@ridetillidie8090 unfortunately that wouldn't be the best course of action. The Tiger II, like many of our older tanks, spent decades outside at the old Aberdeen Proving Ground. We would have to replace key historical and original components to make this vehicle run.

@@robertcogan7109 Too bad. I'd have thought there would be machinists and persons who could access original plans and specs for these. I've seen running Tigers and they're incredible. Still wouldn't have wanted to be riding around in one, but impressive none the less. Glad this one's getting saved! I live right down the road and can't wait to be able to see it in person. Thanks for the reply!

@@robertcogan7109 "We would have to replace key historical and original components to make this vehicle run." That has got to be the dumbest argument I have ever heard for keeping a historical tank from being operational. Argue money (Restoration and operation) sure, but because some of the individual components might not be original? There are manure spreaders that smell better than that. Other than the maniacal purists no one gives a crap if individual parts are re-manufactured new and not the original parts made by their original governments. People want to see history live in front of them. Hear the engine, watch it run around a track, and yes hear the gun fire. Making history LIVE with operational tanks does a lot more to inspire people to think and reflect than a carved up "look inside me" static display in a climate controlled building. Rusting slowly is still rusting, boring patrons, and ultimate being relegated to the scrap heap when the money disappears. Bovington got it right with the working Tiger. You and your ilk are poison to history being relevant, inspiring, and ALIVE for everyone.

@@LCBrink I'm sorry that is your feelings on this. I can tell you I've discussed this issue with other national armor museum staff, and many if not all have agreed with my thoughts on this, given the way this condition has been treated in the past. Bovington was fortunate that their Tiger I had been taken care of so well in the years after the war. Our German pieces not so much. If you talk to most trained museum professionals, preservation is always looked as more important then getting something running just for the sake of running. People may want to see "history live in front of them" but thats not always the best thing when it comes to the profession of museum curatorship and conservatorship. That's why you don't see the Memphis Belle and other aircraft at the USAF Museum flying. You can call me "poison", but at the end of the day I know I'm doing the right thing for the artifact, and that is what really keeps it alive for generations. I hope someday you learn to understand that. If you'd like to know more on my thoughts, read up on the paradox of "The Ship of Theseus".

You don’t lol, the Maus either transports itself or it doesn’t move at all 🤣

Yeah no; the Russian built the museum around the MAUS

My dad served in Vietnam too. Thank you for the comment, big respect to you.

you think they are? you do know these are permanently off limits to the public now right? something that should be in a public museum is now in a museum used specifically as a recruitment tool. they were fine where they were. i find this is actually a waste of tax dollars now.

@@noneyadamnbusiness6891 The public will gain access :P

BS, that's merely Opinion...how 'bout a Sturmgeschutz III??? Your booby sits WAY too high...Or better yet a Stridsvagn 103, now that's SEXY like Sofilein...

Idk... I think the Panther might edge it out. But it IS close!!!

It’s a beauty but JAGD-tiger and panther are my favs

Try it with a 80 pound Basset Hound! At bath time it's like carrying a bag of cement to the tub! And you have to catch that bag of cement first!

This tank did not help the united armies of Nazi Europe.