When a King Tiger Was Rammed by a Sherman 

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sounds more like a wet dream

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@@zeromii3234 Ireland still allowed irish citizens to serve in ww 2 and the firefly had a British cannon

So if a tank loses its commander the crew will not do anything? Like continue the fight on their own?

Well, if he rams it then the turret can't fire it his tank. Boom Shaka laka

‘Aight listen I know y’all have children’s and families and stuff but listen we gotta ram that king tiger-‘ ‘Ok’ ‘Wait what?’ ‘Sure.’ ‘Oh ok, just kinda thought you’d be reluctant’ ‘Nah’

25mm wouldn't do shit, and the crews knew it

@@alqaeda7040 ahh yes I distinctly remember the short barrel 25 mm Sherman oh yes definitely 25 mm, not 75 mm or anything and it’s tiger killing 26mm long barrel counterpart

@@LeMeowAu oh yeah it was 75 mm, but still won't do shit

Roman style *drums*

"perhaps today is a good day to die. prepare for ramming speed! " - Worf

@@sapphireblitzen4683 Cpl Declan O'Worf, Irish Guards

"oh no the Lt shot himself in the head with my pistol." What were his last orders? "Definitely not to ram that tank"

Ensign Crusher certainly looked worried in Star Trek TNG best of both worlds when Riker said something similar lol 😊

Seriously? 😂😂😂 I would love to see that

lmao they where are shooketh

With a cheeky grin I might add.

That's just hilarious lmao

Known colloquially as a Bormann's Blunder :P

They don't call them land ship for nothing.

or tactics that the Japanese used during the attack on pearl harbour.

@@The-lay They did a surprise air attack, i can't see both events related but if you mean kamikaze that's way after pearl harbor

What is stronger king tiger or tiger 1

King tiger is

To be fair, dying in general is unfortunate.

@@bruhism173 true but ya know at least we can like some reaslistic sources

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@@erner_wisal happy new year eve to you it’s nearing new year for me like 2 hours and 10 mins left

He was 22 years old, imagine....

No. He wanted to see it up close.

"Drive me closer! I want to hit them with my tank!"

Too underrated

"Vroom vroom, bitch."

In easter front it was a normal tactic. Rams are quite know eventually of pokharovka there is even monument that is showing how T34 are ramming a tiger as like 700 soviet tanks attacked 300 germans tanks head on in pokharovka and soviets lost like 200 and germans 50. ( Considered soviet vicotory as operation citadela failed and it was the decacive vicotory of WW2 in europe as gemans were dead lost after that)

How huge actually it is?

@@faatihrizqamuhammad2543 150 mm armor pen (tiger 1 - kwk 36) vs 220 mm armor pen (tiger 2 - kwk 43) at 500 metres with APCBC rounds Tiger 2 could effectively fight just about anything at range while the Tiger 1 would struggle with Jumbos, Pershings and the Soviet IS series

Okay wehraboo

I've heard that the Tiger I's cannon was actually the most lethal against infantry, with the Panther's 75mm and the Tiger II's upgraded gun being so powerful with the shells travelling so fast that it actually made them less effective against soldiers. I wonder how true that is

@@robert_941 hes a wehraboo for saying the tiger ii and a different gun ?

Well, he knew his main gun won't even budge the King Tiger's armour, but the sheer force and mass of his tank could... It's like kamikaze but for tanks lol

Ramming is a bad idea because of all the moving parts of a tank it would destroy or damage, but it could be argued that the tank on the receiving end is guaranteed to have a bad time.

Usually a terrible idea, but a 75 Sherman Vs a King Tiger is a good rate of exchange. 489 King Tigers built. 49,000 Shermans built.

@@peterni2234 I'd think the same. If it were any different, that Sherman commander would be reprimanded or possibly court marshalled for bad use of military equipment. However, since he out of his way to salvage the situation and do a equivalent exchange, he was given a pass.

@@steveholmes11 Finally somebody with common sense, sacrificing a Sherman to destroy a king tiger is a no-brainer.

plot armour

He's alive because, you know, it's canon.

"main characters don't die" tell that's to jonathan lol

Maybe he died a couple of times and respawned.

@@31oannamphong66 tell that to jotaro,wait.

I agree, the animation in this video is amazing! 10000/10

Yeah i agree

Is the video abt how hybrid tanks can be made

is vid is better then my future man

I know right? I really love the animation style

what about kursk battle? a T34 rammed a tiger 1 what they dont tell you the tiger reversed out before the T34 blew up!

The story is most likely fake.

@@petermuller3995 Why would it be fake?

@@petermuller3995 theres literally picture of it

@@petermuller3995 you're just mad your precious Tiger 2 got destroyed you werhaboo

@@petermuller3995 I mean, there are tons of WW2 stories that sound fake that turn out to be true. (Like the sniper with over 500 kills, or the Fighter pilot with over 300 kills... And it's not as if the tankers killed like 20 tanks in a single day.

Obviously like it was in many wars getting this footage just for RU-vid

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Don’t see how it was a prayer but yes I agree

Ive definitely shouted his channel out on my feed when i see war history videos or posts this guys videos are actually so detailed its great

Ah yes, a verified

They're using Unreal Engine

It has the same feeling of watching T-34, and also War Thunder/WoT

It's game engine

Change it to 3:28

Reality engine

Whoops

That's what happens when you got no guns.

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Fellow follower of the snail! And ho9nestly...i love that line.

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I was thinking the same 🤣

I knew someone would make this reference

XD

@@Muhammad_Rishad_Baldemar i was expecting the same too

sherman: “dont mind if I do”

ORA! *Crashes

Yeah

Bullet is from a gun not a cannon

That’d be some idiocy I’d accomplish🤦‍♂️

It is, the german crew was even more shocked

@@Slayers991X maybe he shoulda winged it “guttentag Hans”😂

@@Pokelemon3434 he basically did. The crew man was known as a funny man, so he saluted them in a joking way and ran off

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@VinAr Run the 75 Sherman is capable of killing both a Tiger 1 and 2 from the side or back, don't underestimate it.

I'm guessing the Maus is the heaviest.

@@winchesterchua3311 nope. The Jagdtiger was. The Maus never saw combat, so under a technicality, the Jagdtiger was by far the heaviest tank of the war. C H O N K

Remember it was hit by an HE round at point blank too, even if there was no penetration the pressure probably broke some hydraulics and small moving parts needed to turn the turret

@@bens4801 not to mention even if it was operational the tank could not move making it a sitting duck to long range fire from artillery even if there was none you'd prob not take the chance

You'd also need to consider the sound reverberating throughout the hull. Tankers can go deaf from the sound of a direct impact on the hull, if not then they be heavily disoriented. On top of regular technical faults, its probable the crew thought something was gonna blow and booked it. The disorientation could also probably be why they didn't kill that one Sherman tanker that got lost.

being a late war german tank, i have no doubt the HE shell could do more than a bit of damage due to the poor metal qaulity

When the Tiger I was fielded, their crews were handpicked from batches of experienced tankers. But when the Tiger II _entered chat_ they also tried to put experienced tankers... but were less easier to find, at least still alive. So young crews were indeed assigned to the latest German technology, Otto Carius lost a Jagdtiger in his platoon to an extremely inexperienced commander, for example. Thus, if many times the simple ricochets were beyond the nervewracking treshold of the crew, imagine a relatively inexperienced group of young men hit by a 30+ ton "round" 😂

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Side turret was 80mm at 69 degree wich totals 105mm of resistance , Sherman 75mm couldn't penn that at 100 yards , as for a 40mm it would barely scratch that turret

​@narcism71 1st off, this is clearly a warthunder player, 2nd he never specified what 40mm, could be bofirs, could be a qf 2 pdr, and range and angle weren't specified

@@narcism71 i meant apfsds shells, modern ones

@@yoface2537 The KT armor was angled on side by factory at 25 degree , 91 effective mm , The Bofors 40 WW2 1932 - 1953 M430 would penn 100m - 60mm , 500m - 49mm , 1000m - 43mm , later Depleted Uranium shells would penn 82-90mm ,WW2 QF2 was around 50-60 mm of penn if i remember well , later shells would probably penn 90mm as well , both very powerfull 40mm indeed but none of these would penn a KT

@narcism71 however, remember head on, that could pen it, if it wasn't angled

8.8 cm KwK 43 L/71 gun to be precise...

Also the turret in the video is not the right one. The rammed Tiger II had the early version, in the video it is the late version.

Wow-

Lol wikipedia

@@Cbrmkn98xs you can tell because of that little 4 there

@@liemduongthanh8386 yep

Or a nightmare

Military History Visualised does a good touch on this topic as well I'd say. Ther German tanks were effective when handled with care. It was just that the effectiveness was too good such that the enemy never bothered for a fair fight. Hence, why these heavy tanks often broke down before they ever saw combat. Simply put, they were forced to pursue the enemy when they were clearly designed for head-on engagements. It sounds the same when from a practical standpoint its far too different.

This was true for many tanks, not just tigers. T-34 for instance broke down more often than the tiger did. Ofc, you never hear about it since its meta to criticize the big cats.

@@benjammin3381 however the t-34 wasn't as complicated and could be repaired as easily

​@@WorkersofAmericaRise It helps having the factories nearby though they lost 90% of all the 60000 they produced. Its a bad tank that got its legendary status because it was there and because the soviet union wanted to export it post war. The sherman wiped the floor with it in the korea war. It was in all respect a terrible design.

300,000 that dosent sound like a lot looking at German inflation?

@@taxidermypolarbear1724 1 reichsmark = 1,000,000,000,000 mark, I don't know what he's talking about either.

He’s talking about reichsmark not normal mark

As in 300000 reichsmark

Wot us this is something I had just done 5 min ago

But the 5th Guards Armoured Brigade here in the video is from the British Army...

Oops...I’ll edit it

The fact I put in the Japanese kamikaze’s is the British participation in the Asian WW2 Front

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don't forget a war thunder player would do the same

@@serjoshvlogs9899 I feel like this would be more at home with the wargaming games since they use the HP system.

Aha i just got the tiger 2 in wotb yesterday

@@serjoshvlogs9899 we do that to our teammates

but as a war thunder player i dont i would of shot either the panther or panzer cuz that type of sherman cant pen the side of the tiger 1 why would it pen the king tiger but if it was a sherman (76) W it would be a whole different story and yes im a nerd

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Gee, why do some people hate on covering the western front just because it's the most covered? Every front has its cool moments

Proper Guards moment

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Early models used the rounded Krupp turret (it is an error to call it a Porsche turret). It was replaced with another Krupp model turret (less rounded) erroneously called the Henschel turret.

@@doogleticker5183 Yes, I’m aware. It’s just what I’ve known it as for so long.

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Porsche didn’t make the turrets Kruppt did

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the Sherman firefly could knock out a tiger 2 with it gun from reasonable range, I don't think they installed jet engines on these tanks lol, the top speed of the Sherman was around 46 km/h (29 mph)

@@mr9263 true tho

Think ur mind is at the 2015 War Thunder April fools event

Totally they look like potatos

Thought the same too, I would've shot the panzer 4 first because I would've surely destroyed it

@@Reza-sl4jm The sherman firefly had a bigger cannon than the other sherman variants, surely if he figured he could destroy the king tiger he could destroy one of the 2 heavier tanks still working, there was still a tiger1 and a panther down there, the other remaining shermans should be able to take the panzer 4 and he should have targeted the tiger1 as it was the most powerful of the 3 vehicle types that were operational on the field, having the biggest cannon and thickest armor of the 3.

@@stevencolor3389 you're right but it says in the video it hit tiger in the back of the turret multiple times and bonuced, back of the turret is kinda weak point

@@Reza-sl4jm True he did hit the tiger but 3 problems occur: 1st off, the firefly fires 3 shots to take out the already broken tanks, 1 miss at the King Tiger, 1 hitting "the flank" igniting it and one into the Sherman hitting the ammo, this removes the element of surprise and gives the still alive German tanks time to adjust both their turrets and the their hulls position and rotation 2: The tiger 2 has thicker armor than the tiger 1 so if he pens and ignites the tiger 2 he would have been able to do the same if he gets the correct conditions on the tiger 1 (same angles, distance,etc) 3: If the animation is accurate, it hits the top of the turret at a horrendous angle, at that angle the effective armor would see a huge jump, using warthunders data, it goes from the 26mm thickness of the actual metal to the equivalent of over 130mm with that poor of an angle, we also don't see an animation for the 2nd hit but it could have been a repeat of the first hit. by contrast if he shot at it first before killing the broken tanks he had their side view as he was flanking them and easily could have hit the side armor where as far as I can tell he could have penetrated the armor