"Nothins penetrating it man they just bouncing right off." | Tiger Attack | Fury (2014) 

As a military historian, it's fairly innacurate. As a tank fan, fuck yeah

A WW2 veteran was interviewed in a documentary and said that just hearing the word "tiger" gives them goosebumps.

As a side note, the Tiger tank used in the movie is nicknamed "The Bovington Tiger"....it is the last operational Tiger on the planet. It was captured in 1942 in N. Africa. It currently resides in the Bovington Tank Museum in England.

1. The proper way to attack a column of vehicles. Destroy the lead vehicle first, to stop the column from moving forward. Then take out the last vehicle to obstruct the column from retreating. Then attack the vehicles in between. The only thing that saved Brad Pitt’s crew at the beginning of the attack was Movie Plot Armor. 2. This scene is based on a popular American trope of the time: That it took four Shermans to destroy one Tiger Tank. The Germans also had their trope: One Tiger Tank can destroy eleven Shermans. The trouble is, the Americans always send twelve. 3. Most American Shermans were armed with a 75mm main gun. This gun was unable to penetrate the frontal armor of a Tiger. Thus the need to attack from the rear where the Tiger’s armor was thinner. Towards the end of the war some Shermans were armed with a higher velocity 76 mm gun. Some British and Canadian Shermans were armed with more powerful main guns. However, Brad Pitt’s Sherman, in this movie, the Fury, has a 76 mm gun. (In real life this tank may have been a Canadian Sherman.) It should have been able to penetrate the frontal armor of the Tiger, rather than having to swing around to attack from the rear. I suspect the writers were unaware that they would obtain a Sherman with a 76 mm main gun and wrote the scene as if it were armed with a 75 mm gun.

1:28 I love that chorus. Most people know how feared the Tiger I was during the war and in pop culture since. And the fact that its not a T34 or a Pershing with cardboard stapled to it, its a real *Tiger* , the only running one left in the world here to kick some Sherman ass. Loved this scene, despite its historical hiccups.

This scene was more Hollywood action and less actual tactics used by german tank crews.

I feel like being told "its a tiger" as a tank crewman would be the most terrifying thing to hear

This movie speaks to me. I did 20 years in the Navy, 15 of it in Naval Special Warfare as an armorer and a MkV and 11m SWCC (dirty boat guy). Two boats per detachment, 7 guys per boat. 1 det, two crews, but each crew thought they had the better boat. The guys in the tank remind me of the guys I used to roll with. I loved them. I hated them. Best job I ever had!

This Movie spoke to me. I was a tanker in 4/64 Armor from 86-92 and a gunner the last 2 years. When a tank gets hit by a modern tank, no one usually survives.

4:04 an 88mm shell at that close range would have punched clean through the armor and Blown Fury apart. that is point blank range.

As a world of tank and war thunder player Tigers are sometimes my nightmare when i play as a Sherman

I love how everyone just gasps and is in pure shock when the tank commander gets his head disintegrated by the 88 mm (8.8 cm) shell. The Germans found the 88 flak cannon to be an exceptional tank killer as early as 1939 when they encountered French Char B1 bis heavy tanks and British Matilda II medium tanks, both being slow moving but equipped with armour that was impenetrable by German weapons at that time, except for the 88. Of course, when the Russians brought out their T-34/76 the Germans upped their game and brought out the Panzer V ‘Panther’ and Panzer VI ‘Tiger’, the latter equipped with the deadly 88. The majority of Tigers were lost to breakdowns and crews scuttling them to prevent capture but when they were encountered they were extremely fearsome and in the right hands exceptionally deadly. One Tiger in fact, Tiger 231, took around 252 hits from Soviet tank and anti-tank fire at Kursk, only to its engine and limp away to the shock of Soviet soldiers. Despite its faults (weak transmission, underpowered engine, complicated suspension system, fuel guzzler) the Tiger when encountered was a monster on the battlefield when in the right hands thanks to its heavy armour and heavier hitting cannon.

despite the problems the movie has you got to admit its pretty fun to watch and know that the movie producers used a real Tiger tank (Tiger 131) to shoot most of these scenes.

I think I read somewhere that the tank they used was the ACTUAL last surviving, working, 'Tiger I' in existence. They had to be REALLY careful about how they used it though because, as the Tiger tanks were prone to doing so, they could damage their engines. Too much tank, not enough engine.

This is awesome to see everyone’s reaction, especially seeing Norman turn up after taking out the tiger

That v8 growl of the tiger was pure symphony ☠️

Not sure if anybody has mentioned it here yet but this is not how a Tiger ambush would go (If they ever were to ambush completely alone) since they'd take out both ends of the column first so the tanks had more trouble moving into cover. HOWEVER there's a very good reason for it in terms of production, that being that the Tiger seen here is the last running in the world (Currently housed at Bovington Tank Museum) and due to how much time and money it would cost to repair the film crew were given STRICT instructions to what they were and weren't allowed to do with the tank.

Biggest gripe with this scene is 2 things; 1) *The Tactics.* The tiger with cover and element of surprise WOULD NOT break cover and drive forward after destroying the first tank. It would stationary take pot shots from cover then move/retreat only once receiving a concentrated and steadily, over time - more accurate retaliation. By this point in the war, Germany was on "Loss Restriction Doctrine", as the allies pushed in through Europe. Charging the enemy like this signed the movie Tiger's death warrant. 2) *The Engagement Range Shown.* The movie at LEAST states "800 yards" which is accurate - but the visuals show much closer, ESPECIALLY as the Tiger breaks cover and drives INTO DEATH. As the tanks get closer, the old, overused trope they are playing on "4 Sherman's to 1 Tiger" goes out the window as at this CLOSER range, ALL TANKS SHOWN CAN PENETRATE THE ENEMY'S ARMOUR. I see so many talking about "Oh, this American tank can't pen a Tiger.. etc, etc.." - Just NO. The lack of pen is at normal engagement ranges at the average range of 500m (roughly 275m - 1km is the actual statistics, or 275 yards - 1200 yards). There just isn't enough distance in the film for the rounds kinetic energy to drop off. Aiming for centre of mass on the front plate, and any of the American tanks here could have killed that Tiger. Again, a real Tiger crew in WW2 would know this and wouldn't have given up the cover/retreat option for suicide. The Americans could still have won, but unlikely due to the initial ambush positions and having one absolutely clean kill already from the Tiger.

This scene was worth the editing and the reactions. Thank you!

The Tiger tank was way better than those M4 Shermans. In a real scenario, that Tiger tank could easily destroy those 4 Shermans: 1) The Tiger wouldn't come out from its hiding spot 2) It would have shot Brad Pitt's tank 1st as his tank was leading the convoy.

With some of the inaccuracies, the guy taking that shell is accurate af and gives me chills knowing there’s really no way to get what’s left home.

Everybody’s reaction to when that guy was vaporized by that tank shell. 😳 2:33

If yall didn't know, yes. The sherman fury is actually could've penetrated the front armor of the Tiger 1 in the film. It was a M4A2E8 76, but the movie represented a M4A3E8 76, which could punch clean through a tigers front armor. Which is why tigers often targeted these tanks if they were in a group.

Michael Wittmann, in command of a single Tiger in Normandy, in one battle, destroyed 14 Sherman tanks.

I love how all the reactors were thinking the same things in sync

Love how everyone was cracking up with the tank crew as they were laughing off the adrenaline. Such good immersion from the portrayals of everyone involved.

my grandfather was in a tiger tank and he showed me pictures of destroying shermans, he also had a situation back then and they alone took out 4 enemy tanks, no matter which one

Realistically the FURY and the other Sherman with the long gun 76a1 cannon could pen a Panzerkampfwagen VI ( Tiger 1 ) the front but it is a movie so they treated it like 75mm cannons

This scene is EPIC... for a theatre, not a war scene !! 1/ No skilled tank commander would take down the last, but aim the lead vehicle ! That's a 6 stripe Tiger for you, the movie make these Tiger commander like idiots! 2/ No tankers would abandon their cover advantage like this Tiger commander ! They may have smoke him up, then just simply get out from that smoke and stop to shoot ! Sherman have no chance fight them at >600m like that ! And not to mention, if this was a real battle, the 76mm Sherman a.k.a Fury was the one who die 1st ! That's make other just a sitting duck !

They actually got one of the few remaining Tigers out of storage to do this sequence. That is an original German Tiger.

As a student aide at McNary Heights Elementary I remember working with a WW2 vet… he remembered the German Panzers well. You could see it in his eyes when he said “we always 3 or 4 of ours working on one of theirs…”

Laughed my ass off when almost everyone reacted to Peterson's death.

"Let's go right at 'em" says the one tank that has a 76mm cannon.

1:50, "look like they got them selves a modern tank." Someone should tell him about the Transmission that loves to burst into flames lol

I had the pleasure of working with a gentleman who served in WW2 British armoured support. He said they’d pass the the time playing bingo with one tank calling the numbers & crews marking their cards. One occasion as the game progressed through the evening over the radio came “all the 8s 88” to which the call was “our cards only go up to 80” The one word reply was “tigers” His words were the “game abruptly stopped and we fucked off as quietly as our tanks would”

Okay so this movie, as others have already said, was horribly innacurate. However, what it did do _very_ well was showcase just how scary it was going up against a Tiger tank for our boys. They had a fearsome reputation for a _reason_ and I think this movie gets that across rather well, emotionally speaking. Another great tank movie that is also a bit over-the-top, but in the best way, is T-34 released in 2018. It's full of slow-motion shots of the tank round flying through the air that are quite impressive :)

It's difficult to overlook the myths this movie buys into with regards to tanks and tactics, but when that chorus begins and that beast revs... ...it's chills me to the bone.

Just a little fun fact I've noticed with this scene. While everyone clearly could see how the Tiger had better armor by the number of hits it takes to the front, very few hits Fury takes. In that scene, Fury takes a hit to the side near the turret into some logs and equipment, while the second is off the front. Compared to the other 3 each Sherman was a different model, two had rounded hulls and two had more box-like hulls. when you look at Fury's turret, it looks beefier and larger (minus the larger barrel), which are often found on M4A3E2 Jumbo Sherman Tanks. Equipped with heavier armor on the turret and front angle slope, though all other elements of the take are just as weak in the same areas as the other Shermans.

They look like they got a modern tank. Imagine seeing that when you don’t know what a modern tank is. Hence the tank crews were issued brown pants

Both sides were fighting wrong because the Shermans should've used their numbers to flank the Tiger and the Tiger should've reversed and fired at them instead of taking them head on the same way they did plus smoke grenades that Tigers and most German Tanks had were just not there but the movie wanted to show how weak the American tanks compared to Germany and I wouldn't completely agree with that because M-18 had good kills ratio

I saw an interview years ago of a German tiger tank crewman he said they actually felt bad for Sherman tank crew men. But overwhelming numbers and the ability to continue to produce more indefinitely prevailed.

Love the videos mate. Actually sync up the reactions pretty well. Quick question, would you be able to do a group reaction on the Operations battle from Aliens (1986) ? My fav scene of the whole movie

The Tiger used here has its home at the Bovington Tank Museum. It saw combat in N. Africa when it was known as Tiger 131

I was adopted from Russia, through many connections and friends, much digging through my biological family i found out my grandfather was the main gunner of a soviet t-34, faced combat and survived. I am grateful for him and his courage

Usually when US armor faced german tanks they retrated and called in air support since Germany had no air superiority way before the landing in France. Unlike the Soviets the US tried to save as many lifes as possible, which was noted in several diaries of german soldiers.

I know I'm late, but that Tiger is designated Tiger 131. The only remaining Tiger tank from WWII. It's been preserved in the Bovington Tank Museum in Bovington, England. It was rented out for the movie. Every single scar and mark on the tank in the movie, it received in battle. It was captured by the 48th British Royal Tank Regiment.

This one hell of a clean edit of react, nice job dude

He said he got hit by heavy artillery but the shell hit ‘em from the side😂

Regardless of the side, this film portrays very well the suffering that the tankers had to go through

My great uncle was a Sherman driver he never talked about til I enlisted in the army in 85 he watched Fury and told me Seeing the Tiger in the movie brought back memories of facing them he wanted to face that feeling before he passed. he passed a year later. RIP Uncle Joe I was named after him.

This was a good compilation. Hopefully, you will do one for the final fight scene.

A guy I worked with who was pretty old, his dad was a tank commander in Italy, he said they where more afraid of machine guns because a skilled machine gunner could ricochet rounds down the periscope into the tank where they would bounce around

My Dude. Mr. Lebowski. Please don't stop. I love these edits! 💜🍿🔥💎

Now that part when the Tiger shell took his head off, I was shocked as hell.

According to first-hand accounts from American tankers and recovery crews American tanks could take out German tanks at about 600 yards they had to get within that distance whereas German tigers and other heavy armored vehicles could reach us at over 2 km

theres a famous quote from a Nazi Official after WW2 stating “A German tank was worth 4 American tanks… they always showed up with 5”

Fun fact about tanks: German tanks had engines in the rear, thicker armor, stronger fire power, and 14 wheels total. Our tanks at the time had engines in the front, lighter armor, less wheels. Our tanks were built more like cars. After the WW2 we adopted the German design.

2:08 that's my fav scene when round ricochet and makes a resonating sound. man that's s chef's kiss of this masterpiece.

to be fair, at 400mt, 76mm had major chances to pen the tiger ^^ but is a film ... in reality those shermans could be all dead, and tiger killed by P51s called for aerial cover ^^

It's absolutely hilarious to see both the reactors and commenters, who know nothing about tanks, talk about which tank is superior.

In real life 2 Sherman tanks would be enough to destroy 1 tiger tank German Tiger tanks where insane

As said by the Sherman tank commander: if he sees you, you have got no chance.... If you see him, you still have no chance.....

the tiger can take them all from 3km away

ima be honest. part of me hurts when i hear a few certain things. but as a tank film. its fantastic

Quality of over quantity. gotta love the 100 mm of RHA armor.

If the Tiger had stayed where it was or went backwards then the Sherman crews would have been annihilated.

My grandfather who fought in Italy 🇮🇹 said the tiger had a distinctive engine noise and if you heard it heading your way you'd shit your pants some Sherman tank crews refused to take on a tiger...can't really blame them

Those who think Sherman was worthy to win let me tell according to tank aces 1 tiger-131 was equal to 10 sherman

„Remember me is all I ask”. Remember them, young people of the West. Remember what they did for us, them, young people like yourselves.

This was great and amazing movie,please do more of this movie

Tiger 1: there's only 4 of them we can take 'em. Move forward! Fury: Plot armor!!! ayayayayaya

To paraphrase a German Tank Commander who said the Tiger tank could take out 10 Sherman tanks but we’d always have 11. There were approximately 50,000 Sherman tanks sent to war while the Germans had approximately 8,000 Panther and Tiger tanks. Although vastly superior in armor and firepower they were simply outnumbered.

Kingsman: Church brawl scene. 😲

A,or if these people don’t know that this is the only running tiger in the world well the first one to be captured this is tiger 131 from bovington tank museum

So many people too concerned about the accuracy of the movie. This proves the movie is a great movie, had them all completely captivated and on the edge of their seats holding their breath as the scene progressed... as a movie should. for some this may be the scene that triggers a further interest in tankes, sure did for me... Sad that a lot of other fellow tank nerds cant see that.

I was on the Tiger Side, god damn Hollywood 😂😅

My dad told me a story he heard about how 1 Tiger managed to take out a group of 20 Shermans.

My uncle's father ( he is from Germany) was a Panzer IV commander in Kursk and Normandy😢.

I think it's worth clarifying a couple of points: 1) the German tiger could turn around on the spot. 2) he had enough rate of fire to destroy all the Shermans in this scene. 3) Idiots were not put in the Tiger - they would have to shoot from a well-prepared position, with his long-range gun, he did not to go to the Shermans. The fighting power of the tiger can be judged by the actions of Michael Wittmann and the horror that appeared on the faces of veterans when they saw these machines after the war. The film is not bad, but do not consider the Germans stupid, it offends the memory of Soviet, American, French and other soldiers who died in the fight against Nazism.

The final about 8 months or so the American army started getting the Pershing tank. It had a 95mm gun, as opposed to the Sherman's 75mm gun, that could take out the Tiger from the front.

Fun fact: The Americans had an instructions: Only attack an tiger tank with 5 Shermans

Crewed M-1A Nothings (105MM) before going to flight school. This scene gives me flashbacks. The technology of armored warfare is so different today.

Such an underrated movie, so powerful, the “historical purists” want to nitpick every little thing but as someone who was deployed I can say this movie captures the feeling of hopelessness and despair you can feel but also perfectly captures the camaraderie forged in combat

Like many have said entertaining but not historically accurate for the reasons mentioned. Plus, don't know if it was mentioned but the Tiger would never have come out from cover if it didn't have to. The German Tiger and Panther crews knew their advantage was range. IF anything, the Tiger would have withdrawn after the smoke, having destroyed a couple tanks, moved to another ambush spot and repeated the tactic. This scene did a fair job of showing that basically all three of the major allied countries, USA, Russia and UK went for quantity over quality. It worked obviously, the ironic thing is toward the end of the war the Germans realized they needed quantity instead of top quality to and had several good tank designs in that would have done the job but, like alot of Germanies late war ideas and weapons, too little, too late. Little known fact, the German Stug III did most of the heavy lifting as far as "tanks" killing allied tanks on all fronts it just doesn't get the attention because it's a cheap tank destroyer, not as sexy as the Tigers and Panthers.

I still wonder how they made the fire. I mean the Tiger 131 is the last original Tiger 1 Tank that can move under it's own Power. So I highly doubt that they actually made holes in it or set it on fire. Do u guys know how they did that? Pure CGI or a model or how?

It's probably been said, and I apologise for repeating this if it has, but a German tank commander in a Tiger, ambushed a British, or Canadian, armoured column in Normandy and took out over 20 armoured vehicles, including Sherman tanks. Winterman?? Extremely powerful, deadly 88mm gun, thick armour but a nightmare, mechanically, to keep in the fight.

American tanks were inferior in part because we had to make them portable. We had to transport them clear across the Atlantic Ocean to fight the Germans in North Africa and Europe, and we had to transport them all across the vast Pacific Ocean to fight the Japanese. The need to transport our tanks via ship across huge distances imposed size and weight limits on American tanks, whereas there were no such limitations on German and Russian tanks. They were there for free to build larger, heavily armored main battle tanks with bigger, more powerful main guns then the USA as a result. The tradeoff was that American tanks were easier to manufacture and could be mass produced, which allowed the U.S. to win tank battles by outnumbering the opponents.

Only two of those Sherman's had the 76 that would go clean through the front of a tiger at 600m

Wow, that was a good one. Keep it up the good work sir.

It was a 5 to 1 ratio when fighting a tiger because only one sherman would survive.

May that veteran tiger crew rest in peace

When the people watching don't know that the American long 76 can go through the front of a Tiger at 1000 meters

At the beginning the guy said they must need "heavy artillery" to one shot a sherman Just about any anti-tank weapon could one shot a sherman from the side at that time

What amazing is that is a REAL Tiger. The last remaining operational Tiger, it was loaned from a museum for the movie.

Bit sad to see that there all sad when an American dies but when it’s a German there cheering, in the end they were only soldiers too

They all had the same reaction when one of the Sherman tank commander's head was smashed into a bloody pulp by a direct AP round...

German technology was so advanced back then. It’s fucking insane even to this day.

1:07 The new normal couple Always make.dad.angry no matter.what lol

If this was real life, all four of those tanks would be whiped out, but for the movie plot, you must have Fury survive and defeat the Tiger. Tiger was beast, well trained crew could do wonders on battlefield as long tank work and they had ammunitions, of course, P51 Mustangs and other planes made life of tankers quite hard, while allies didnt had anything that could match the TIger and King Tiger (with exception of Pershing, Hellcats later in war), Russians did manage with T-34-85s IS-2s still even with rival tanks that could actually destroy Tigers, Tigers remain the beasts of WWII.

That panzer captain was an idiot. Those Sherman’s were lucky they’re not flaming hulls