Ah, the infamous Tiger. Often referred to as the 'Fascist Cooker' by the Soviets...

Ah, the infamous Tiger. Often referred to as the 'Fascist Cooker' by the Soviets. The nickname referred to when the Germans starving from lack of rations, would scavenge destroyed Tiger tanks for the precious cooked meat inside. In fact, the designers of the Tiger designed it to light every time, so that cooking of the crews was guaranteed. Of course, the Germans would often eat their own tank crews whether they were cooked or not, regardless. My grandpappy told me this in great detail when I was a young boy. Truly the horrors of war. Why couldn't rhes just use the war winning T-34 like the Red Army?

what the fuck are you talking about?

hes writing a yaoi

Only about 2200 tigers of that model were ever made and not that many were destroyed by T34's. The tiger on the other hand specialised in blasting commie tanks away at over 1000 meters.

because of the poor quality meat the germans found inside them

jews did it

russians soldiers respectet german soldiers
you jew students are pathetic

Where'd you get this jewish fanfiction?

not on xmas huh fellas?

What a bunch of horseshit.

>it was real in my mind

Shh.... Just let the little Bozgor have his little fantasy circle jerk.

>broke down
>bad transmission
>slow turret traverse
>underpowered engine
>no sloping
>tracks so tight sometimes explosive charges were needed to get links separated
>tracks tended to slip off idler wheel due to how tight they were when enough stress was applied to them
Any other bases that need to be covered? We've all heard it before. One camp says the Tiger is shit, the other says it was a great tank.

It was actually around 1400 Tigers.

>This much propaganda
>Muh Nazi cannibals

Here's one for you, if you genuinely do believe that the Germans were cannibalizing their own towards the end of the war from lack of rations, does that mean that the 'extreme' claim that people in the camps mostly died from disease and malnourishment from lack of supplies holds any more water in your mind, Or is it just selective propaganda you are after.

Overengineered junk
too bad it broke down every time and couldn't be repaired until moved back to factory lmao

>Italian criticizing German engineering.
lmfao

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Tigers (early and late models) as with other, similar German designs of the war excelled at long range engagement. At optimal engagement ranges, even the Tiger I could deliver effective and decisive fire in range excess of its direct competition. Shorter ranges diminished the advantages of heavy tanks and this was very much a factor considering the state of the German war machine in the later stages of the war.

>tldr is really simple, tanks work well for what they’re designed for.

Or better yet, this thread is designed bullshit by someone who doesn’t understand combat or what it even entails in the practical sense.

This might even be too retarded for /k/ and they're retarded.

Spbp

Hi, what's going on here?

You can't eat a charred, rotten corpse you scrub. Unless they waited like vultures to pounce on the tank as soon as it was knocked out.

But it's true m8, Hitler was too obsessioned with overengineered junk (Tiger, Elefhant, Tiger 2, Maus) that resulted in just a too heavy sitting duck with the problems i mentioned above
I didn't say all german tanks were bad or nazi germany sucked at engineering

There are some reasons to not have sloped armour. It reduces space inside the vehicle considerably so worse conditions for crew, less ammo, less equipment

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LOOK AT THIS DUDE, LOOK AT THE TOP OF HIS TURRET...AHAHAHAHA...LOOK AT THAT PERPENDICULAR FRONTAL PLATE...OHOHOHOHO

who is Michael Wittmann ?

>too bad it broke down every time and couldn't be repaired until moved back to factory lmao

T-34 tanks were badly manufactured and the only reason they didn't break down all the time is that they never survive long enough in battle to have the opportunity to break down.

>guys check out this new game called War Thunder the T34 was the best tank ever!

Funny you should mention this, because wikipedia recently nuked their panzer ace articles and reduced the amount of information. Someone over there was really upset about wehraboos.

Shame he got cooked by the canadians. I'm pretty sure his grave in france still gets fresh flowers.

>Starving soldiers eat each other
>Plenty of food for Jews we're about to gas!

The heavy tank concept was a failure. Germany overtook France with shitty trainer Panzer Is and IIs and short barreled Panzer IIIs.

In many ways the French tanks were superior to the German tanks in that they had thicker armour. What the lacked was mobility and combined operations with the airforce and infantry.

What Germany needed was a fast, easily constructed and moderately armoured/well equipped tank. The Panzer IV should have been spammed to hell and if the war was going well, then try to introduce the Pather tank as an elite vehicle.

German tanks & bomber aircraft in WW2 were fucking shit

T-32's where not badly Manufactured, the Armor was crude, the early models had defects that eventually got worked out, the Manufacture Process was fortunately corrected by 1942ish where the entire tank was manufactured in the same spot (armor plates manufactured in warmer climates and colder climates did not fit together correctly in the early tanks).
Some T-34's where sometimes incomplete, missing a turret, lack of gears for transmission etc, but the Germans did the exact same thing with Uboats, like Russian T-34's they pumped those underwater weapons delivery systems out as fast as possible, mind You being a submariner was even more dangerous then being a Russian tank crew.

One of my Family members was tank crew during the battle of Minsk, He lived to tell me his Unit spent most of its time doing sabotage work.

Ah, the glorious Tiger. Jihadists cower in fear before him

RIP

Yep, I'm totes gonna believe anything that came out of (((Soviet))) Russia.

The Hungarian is a genius.

The OP is a parody of Belton Cooper's infamous bullshit rants about Sherman.


You kids ought to read actual books if you want to discuss WW2 tanks, weapons and tech.

The consensus is that the Tiger was bad engineering incarnate.

>(((Soviet))) Russia
Why do people keep repeating this bullshit?
Yes, bolsheviks were predominately jewish and were financed by western kike bankers.
But Stalin purged most of them. He even went as far as taking a loan from some american kike association on terms of creating Jewish Autonomous Republic in Crimea. But instead made one in shitty frozen land in Far East. And then didn't even return the loan.
And even after Stalin, jews were kept in check in USSR. There were quotas for their number in higher ups. Not like now when they dominate government and every industry, compromising only small percentage of population. USSR supported every anti-Israel country in Middle East. I mean ffs, look at pic related - May Day parade float in the 70s. Jews fucking hate USSR and for a reason.
Modern Russia is much more jewish than USSR. And Russia are on good terms with Israel now. It didn't even support Western sanctions against Russia.

It may have been overengineered but that exact fact was what assured the tiger won 70+ % of engagements. The real problem was the lack of ability to produce and manufacture at the same speed as those bastard communists, might of worked out if Nazi Germany had the same manufacturing capabilities as the allies but that is just fanciful thinking.

Zionists had grand dreams of taking over Russian Resources for the last 600 documented years.

The powers that control empty wealth threw money at any and every milliary for hire to use Human blood to try once more to invade Russia, America, ISIS any milliary body with bought and paid for politicians, they lobbied to dumb down the Masses, breeding Blacks into the population, Spreading religion, they DO these things because they have a hidden loyalty to people like themselves.

for example Europe is flooded with Migrants, to dumb down the population and spread a culture of the Party responsible for this mess.

Its Saudi Arabia.. they own no less then 70% of Just NYC (9/11 makes sense now doesnt it?).
ISIS is Saudi Arabias army... connect the dots.

Saudi Arabia is a puppet state of Great Britain, they have a SEVERE lack of Resources....

Great Britain started WW2 in Europe to destroy the railway systems and Russia at the time wanted to become a super power but they needed a system compatible with its geography to transport goods and build a manufacturing powerhouse, this of course would have killed the 150-160 Port City;s the brits built up all over the world and the ultimate end to its gold based economy.

Its the British who started this whole anti Russia thing, they lost everything, now the Brainwashed stragglers will randomly post anti Russia sentiment and every one including You is just annoyed by it at this point.

As a fellow Ukrainian, I have a Personal bone to pick with everybody who started this bullcrapp.

the allies could pump out several shermans/t34s for every one of the german "supertanks" produced

its just the way real war works: cheap to produce shit that can be used in widespread areas and actually works is better than clunky superweapons that take a long time to build and break down all the time.

> heavy tank concept is a failure
> soviet KV-1
> french b1 bis (would have been a war winner if mass produced and supported by infantry)

There are 2 reasons why germans decided to mount their 88s on tracks, mind you.

Hmmmm. 1400 Tigers made. 35000 T34s.

Germans killed tanks at a rate of 7:1 with their Soviet counterparts

>kv1
which was rendered obselete by the t34

that's why zerg tactics work in games

You pick something that is quick to manufature, but half way between medium and easy to kill.

If you can out produce your opponent. You win with zerg tactics.

The germans should have spammed the panther.

Not until 1942-1943 if I remember correctly.

In the end, yes cheap mass produced tanks (sherman/t 34-85) combined with mechanized infantry had a much bigger impact because of shear mass.

and by your numbers it wasnt' enough.

all it would have taken is 10K russian tanks. To beat those 1400 tigers. And they had 3 times that amount.

The german kill ratio would have needed to be 24:1 to win

Thinking about it, maybe the decision to make oversized tanks was not such a dumb idea considering that germany did not have the means to mass produce tanks (lack of resources) compared to soviets and allies. A few high reliable, high performing tanks could have been enough.

Assuming higher reliability and a sufficient kill ratio. Of course the germs did not have any of those.

>Often referred to as the 'Fascist Cooker' by the Soviets
Proofs? I have never, ever heard of this before.
>My grandpappy told me
Oh, it's just another hearsay then.

>German tanks & bomber aircraft in WW2 were fucking shit
German tanks were some of the best. The Sherman was actually pretty terrible armour/gun wise. The Sherman was made for mobility and would have to drive up to German tanks to even penetrate there armour and they would have to do it from the sides or rear losing multiple tanks to try and take out just one.
>German bombers were shiiiiiit!
>flag
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