See Inside King Tiger | Tank Chats Reloaded 

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Counting down the days until I fly to the UK and finally see this thing again, it has been YEARS

I was a 19K tank crewman on the M1A1 Abrams and I tell you what man.....the King Tiger was a hell of a lot more intimidating in every way than an Abrams....that absolutely beautiful Panzer was an absolute beast, from the end connectors up to the muzzle brake.....OUCH! Yes, the transmission, engine, and final drive problems were a major part of it's downfall, but I can't even imagine being a Allied tanker and coming up against this monster in any aspect, especially with that laser beam gun.....but that was very true of most German tanks and the guns they mounted........the 88 in all it's iterations was just stupid deadly....can't even imagine it if they had gotten up to mounting the KwK L/68 105mm. Also, the Tiger 2 never approached 850,000 Reichsmarks, the vehicle averaged a cost of around 322,000 Reichsmarks, a little more for command vehicles. The only tank the Germans had that would scare me more was the Jagdpanther...that thing had a gun just as big as the Tiger II, but was a friggen sports car compared to it's bigger brother....and don't even get me started on the smaller killing machines StuG and Hetzer.

The King Tiger really does have a presence. You could almost imagine it operating without a crew like a very big proto-Terminator.

First time I saw this tank at The Tank Museum I was amazed at how tall it was. It was about six foot to the front deck. Massive!

Chris Copson does a superb job of presenting this very well made video. Very well done and thank you to the whole production team.

Having been near one of the surviving T2s, it is indeed a beast

I thought that detail about the self defense mortar was fascinating and a amazing detail to include

I was in the town of La Glieze, Belgium to see this tank on display outside the museum house. I stand about 6 feet tall and standing next to this tank I was amazed of how massive the armor plating it had. No wonder the allied tanks were afraid to take the King Tiger one on one. 6:46

The tank just looks so beautiful. With the heavily armored, sloped outeriour and the huge, long gun it looks like an armored teutonic knight with lance in hand.

I fondly remember visiting the museum with my late father in the 1970s. We used to love watching war movies together and my memory of the museum is very special, everything there looked enormous to a 7 year old.

I met a fellow who fought in Pattons army. He commanded a half track with howitzer mounted to it. He said he had a Royal Tiger cross his "T" at about 400 yards. It was going fast, all buttoned down. He said they laid shells on it, but they bounced off. He figured they were either out of ammo, or low on fuel, or both. Otherwise, it could have easily knocked them out.

Definitely the most intimidating looking tank of WW2.

my Grandpa was driver of that kind of vehicle. He told me he survived five tiger tanks. He has driven bicycles, Trucks, Tiger and King Tiger at the east front. He was about one year in sovjet prison before he came back and has founded a family where a my mother is from.

This guy is brilliant , very clear and knowledgeable!

King Tigers are the nicest looking tanks from WW2. Peak design and silhouette.

As a side note: In the video you can see clips of King Tiger 300. You can read about King Tiger 300, 313 and 314 in the memoirs of panzer commander Richard von Rosen in 'Panzer Ace'.

I've seen this up close, even compared with modern MBT's it has an impressive presence. Imagine being the 'volunteer' who was chosen to sabotage the gun - "we've drained the oil from the gun cylinders, and all you have to do is sit right next to it and fire, nothing can possibly go wrong".

Amazing how roomy the turret is allowing for the presenter, lights and cameraman all at once. Great work!

Great presentation from Chris on this iconic beast. Thanks and well done.

Panzerkampfwagen Tiger Ausführung B! I've always been Fascinated by German military vehicles and The Bengal Tiger was next to the Elephant and the JagdTiger my favorite tanks. I love this channel.

Always a pleasure to listen to Mr Copson. Thank you for keeping history alive, it does matter.

Visited the Tank Museum on the 28th March and spent the whole day there. The staff were really knowledgeable and couldn't have been more helpful. The planning that has gone into the exhibition and the execution of the layout is quite frankly, stunning. I would thoroughly recommend a visit but be ready to get blown away by some of the engineering that has gone into the exhibits ......... shall be returning later this year (2023)

These tank chats are great. I love both of the hosts of the original and the reloaded versions. Awesome work guys, thanks for the content! Will buy some merch to help keep you guys going.

Thank you for a really interesting and informative walk around the Tiger 2 Tank!

This is an exceptional video. Absolutely brilliant details

haven't been all that into tanks lately but this video made me click into it and golly did i watch it too the end. The Tiger 2 Has always been my favorite of all. Brilliant Video!

I was just looking for a inside video of the king tiger the other day. Perfect!

Brilliant video as always, lovely to see inside the tank.

YES YES YES I always want to see details inside. It always saddens me the most insides of restored tanks are trashed or at best missing all aux gear.

Superb video, with lots of good information. This is actually the first time I have ever seen the King Tiger , up close and personal.

I really love the King Tiger and the Tiger I. These tanks are my main research topic for my personal collection of Panzer Militaria and I appreciate the video. Thank you for posting this.

I've seen it over the last tankfest, it's a monster sitting in the dark. Brilliant place, well worth a visit.

Brilliantly done. Great information for historians and modelers. Thanks

Superb presentation, great visuals and super-informative. Lots of new - to me - information provided by a very knowledgeable narrator. Well done the tank museum.

Great insight into this outstanding piece of history,my daughter and i visited the Tank Museum last year and stood in front of that tank,both of us in awe of its sheer size and presence .

And awesome it is, mister Copson. As a former infantry man this monster scares me more by appearance than any modern MBT or heavy tank in service at present time. Challenger II’s, Abrams, Leclercs and Leopards have a smooth, almost sporty appearance, but this leviathan looks like a unbeatable bringer of death.

Had the great privilege of seeing this beast while attending Tankfest in 2012. She's awe inspiring.

Fantastic vid again 👍 Thanks for the peek inside, appreciate it a lot! Greets from the Netherlands 🇳🇱, T.

Having seen this tank in person, this video just doesn't do its scale justice. I was in awe and found it difficult to comprehend the fact that it was able to move at all!

Excellent presentation. Good job!

Excellent explanation and very clearly narrated. Great job!

Chris, just wanted to say how well you present the this and past video details. Job well done sir. Curious about this monster never really learned much actual facts about them.

Love these more in depth chats. Look forward to more of them

My first model from the Tank Museum was a production model Tiger II. I learned about modeling and painting with it^^

I love this tank. Saw it in December 2022. Was awesome to see the big chunk taken out of it on the right side

Thank you very much for this superb presentation and preserving this beauty!

Great presentation. So clear and friendly and informative. 👍

Best bet to see a fully functional one will be the one they'll restore in Switzerland, they're doing an incredible job there

This video is officially Gold! Hope there will be more coming!

Thank you for the super detailed description of this metal monster.

Bravo, superb presentation and detailed info! Loved this, KT is my favorite WW2 vehicle!

Visited this tank long time ago, and last year visited the one in the wild at La Gleize. Very large beasts they are!

This is well detailed and fascinating. It's also apparent being a tanker in any war would have been terrifying, The space inside the king tiger was larger than most tanks, but if a conflagration broke out the crew inside was literally toast. A grisly way to go.

Excellent vid, very informative, thank you.

Excellent video, very well presented and great to see the internal detail.

The view from the turret is so imposing you would believe anything was possible. I was allowed inside a number of tanks at the museum back in ‘85 . I have never forgotten how that machine made me feel for those precious minutes. No wonder tales of them assaulting vast numbers of allied machines are in history books.

I was at the Shrivenham Defence Academy back in ~2009 for an Information Operations symposium and had the privilege to wander through their armored vehicle collection (normally off-limits to the public) during a break. A great privilege, but I'd have loved to be able to climb inside some of their treasures.

Great video! I'm sure I will re watch it several times. Love the Tiger 2! 🐅

"A very bad day at the office" - agreed! Thank you Chris for an excellent tour of the Tiger 2.

Amazing video. Enjoyed it immensely. A lot of cool history. The Germans really know how to build weapons and weapon systems. Absolutely amazing

It might sound daft, but I'm looking at the quality of the welds on the interior as Chris gives his talk. for an industrial high output and mass produced bit of kit, they actually look like they've been done by machine, but as far as I know they were done by hand, so that is some pretty damn high quality ARC welding done in the factories.

This narrator is one of the best I've ever come across. Thank you for a fascinating and informative presentation.

Beautiful machine, well described!

Check out the intro...the one tank has a bent barrel as it comes out the forest

Enjoyed video, informative and professionally done.

Man I would love to see the museum. Fantastic the king is.

Great Video of the Monster, learned quite a bit of info that I never had read before. Thanks!

The final drive was the final straw. On a positive note, Otto Carius said that the steering was incredible, you could steer 70 tons with a single finger!

Superbly presented video - full of fascinating information!

surprising amount of space in the turret (w/o ammo etc etc). Thanks for this excellent video

Despite saying "aahhmmm" approximately 7,500 annoying times, Mr. Copson does give us a very interesting and informative presentation. So he's forgiven. 😅

What a good summary; whatever its failings I agree you cannot be in its presence and not be a little in awe. Thank goodness they only built 500. Minor point, but those rounds hit the right side of the tank; I'm sure Chris just mis-spoke.

Great post! Fascinating. Wow, I am following your channel now for sure. I love this stuff!

Great information! Very well made video, definitely a sight to see eve with him saying “um” well over a 150 times

I would very much love to see a video on the Panther G you have in the museum. That would be fabulous 👌

Man, when I look at this, I realize just how much sense it makes that the Abrams and Leopard 2 are such amazing tanks when I realize that they're both products of American-German collaboration on tank design. It also makes me appreciate the modern reality of international collaborations for arms development when I think about the F-35. As for the Tiger II, it deserves a lot of respect for its armor and firepower. The firepower alone was just unparalleled in the war, and it managed to do it practically and without development hell. The armor protection was a great scheme, let down mainly by the lack of an engine and transmission capable of handling the weight. The fuel economy was let down by Germany's logistics and lack of oil. Nevertheless, the design showed a lot of skill making the most of what it had.

Great content! I enjoyed every second of it.

Beautiful video my friend 😊❤👍🇬🇧thank you so much. Love it

Still today a beautiful piece of art in steel, what an amazing engineering in the middle of a war and bombardments... German engineers are truly heroes

At 5:47 you make a little mathematical mistake. It's 150mm 40 degrees from horizontal, not vertical. (Therefore 50 degrees from vertical) This means the tiger 2s front armor is actually: 150/cos(50) = 233mm (cosine angle is vertical when using the LOS formula)

Very good. Chris Copson is a fantastic authority. Thank you.

Always a great show. Just lovely

Reading Tiger/King Tiger commanders war memoirs 75% of their job and time was spent using their one or two working tanks to go recover the ones that broke down or ran out of fuel the day before.

I wonder if this tank will be restored. I heard that German companies are quite cooperative to make original parts for museums. At least that is what I heard from people restoring WW2 planes and WW2 submarines.

Thank you, that was a fantastic and extremely informative video

Great video, very informative.

I would love to see the interior to be set up as if it was still currently manned in active service during the time. Prop ammunition, for the main gun in the racks, replicas of the crew's weapons and ammunition,personal belongings, tools, radio, etc. I believe it'd give the beast's a little human touch to them. Even though they've done amazing things restoring these vehicles and allowing them to live on as memorial and a memento to teach future generations. I love these videos and the group at the tank museum have done extraordinary things. Of course some of the items placed inside might have to be a bit speculative of course due to lack of personal accounts or photo evidence but who better to make such speculations than the the Tank Museum? I know it'd be a lot of work and this is far from a complaint. Just my thoughts. Appreciate all the hard work everyone puts into making these videos for us

What a treat of a video, thank you!! We don’t have many ww2 tanks from Germany here in my area of the USA

Great intro, tour and summary by Chris

I saw the one at the Aberdeen Proving Ground back in the mid 90's. What a beast. Unless you see it up close and personal, you will never fully appreciate it. Just looking at it sent shivers up my spine, knowing living men had to face this monster head on. And yes, Chris does a great job here.

Im honestly curious how much the war would be different if the germans started the war with Tiger I and II's, Panthers, ME 262, STG 44 rifles, V2 rockets, more supply trucks and more equipment in general...etc If they waited a few more years, maybe they could of really won Europe?

Fantastic video! Would love to see a more in-depth one on the Panther.

What a fantastic video,I thoroughly enjoyed it!!

I love these. The presenter is great, can tell he really knows his stuff and isn't just reading off a sheet.

the tiger2 really is an absolute monster and an amazing piece of panzer engineering. You can think what you want, but if the engine had been adapted to the weight and the supplies had been right and not least the production, then it would often have been much more uncomfortable on the battlefields. Technically brilliant and brutal at the time, even if I personally see the panther as more of a favourite. Thank you for this great and detailed video

this is a great video, really wel made and presented! it's a shame your Königstiger is partially stripped out though :c

These videos are awesome keep up the good work!

Great video. Though it should be obvious from the size of the tank. I'm extremely surprised by how roomy it looks inside. I'm still going through your back catalogue, so might just have missed it so far. But I'd really like to see an "in depth" inside look, like this one, of the Centurion and the Chaffee. My dad served on both of them as a driver in the Danish army, back in the 60's. It's been our intention for years, to go on vacation, near a museum that had them on display. Once his health allowed it. Sadly that time never came, and he died last year.

It would be cool to see the tiger and king tiger running together