This thing was an absolute beast. basically unbeatable from the front. Your only chance of taking it out was to flank it and even then you'd have to be pretty close to penetrate the 80mm of slightly sloped armor. it was rushed into production which really wrecked havoc on quality control. Also the crew was hastily trained and put into action which only served to increase breakdown problems as an inexperienced driver could easily overwork the engine and cause problems. Otto Carius who survived the war and died at the age of 92 in 2015 was unique for his experience as commander of a Tiger 1 a Tiger 2 and finally a Jagdtiger, he accumulated 150 tank kills by the end of the war. In his book he wrote that in one engagement a Jagdtiger shot through a house, clean to the other side and destroyed a Sherman hiding behind it. He also states that he and this team of Jagdtigers laid out an ambush for a group of Shermans they knew where heading their way. He states that it would have been a massacre for the Americans however the citizens of a nearby town warned the Americans not to advance because "very big German tanks" where waiting for them, lol. This forced Otto and his team to retreat so as not to be flanked. He wrote that in the few engagements he was in the Jagdtiger he lost count of hits he heard hitting the tank, none penetrated. Also according to Wiki the Battle of Remagen - "When they finally engaged the American armor around Herborn, Jagdtigers were able to attack U.S. tanks at up to 3 kilometers (1.9 mi) and reported destroying 30 units." This was perhaps the only time the Jagdtiger was able to utilize its true strength, long range destruction while being immune to anything the allies could muster.
+Ingaz The sides and rear were vulnerable to common Allied anti-tank weapons, the roof was vulnerable to plunging artillery fire and the front was vulnerable at close ranges to T30E16 HVAP.
Both the side and the rear had 80 mm of armor with the sides being at a slight angle making the 80mm more like 85-90 mm of armor. 85mm of armor is not vulnerable to common allied anti tank weapons. The Bazooka being the most common of them all could only penetrate roughly 75 mm and this only when conditions where ideal, close range, and non slopped armor. And the Sherman tank would need to close to within 250 meters to penetrate the side of a Jagdtiger. so basically the Jagdtiger was very well protected from the sides and even the back had 80mm of armor, although not slopped.
+Ingas 250 meters? A Soviet firing test conducted against captured King Tigers (same side armor) showed that the American 76mm could defeat the 80mm of slightly angled plate at ranges up to 2000 meters.
Used to have a Tamiya kit of this tank when I was a kid which was motorised and battery powered. A good model and good fun watching it slowly advance towards you :)
I, too, had this model and it was a fun kit. It moved slowly which was a disappointment, but had I known it was more like the real thing, I would have been happier about it. I had a number of Tamiya armor kits as a kid and had fun with them. I still have a number of them that I never put together as I traveled a great deal and never had sufficient room to display them. I'll bet the newest Tamiya kit I have is 40 years old and the oldest is somewhere in its 50's! US and German tanks were my favorites and I studied WW 2 since I was a boy in elementary school.
@@13thBear, I, too, was into Tamiya model WW2 tanks. During any visit to the hobby shop, I would spend a couple of hours looking and choosing my next kit.
A Tiger’s gun would wear out after 400 or 500 shots of AP rounds. I would imagine that the Jagdtiger’s gun would be roughly the same or perhaps less. I suppose very few wore out. The huge Schwerer Gustav train gun’s barrel wore out after 70 shots. In WW1 artillery factored in barrel wear when working out range.
The strongest tank gun ever built, even up to now. A massive 24.5 Megajoule energy in the projectile. Really impressive. All Western tanks with 120 mm guns have only half of that with ~12 Megajoule, however on a smaller diameter for more penetration.
I spoke to a German Engineer years ago who told me the gun used in the JagdTiger was originally designed for use on all of the German Capital Ships they were going to build! Thus, the design for a Two-Part Round, per Naval safety. When they halted producing those ships, because the rest were getting sunk, they looked around and said "Hmm, wonder what we could use these in..."
A very clear and concise explanation of this formidable weapon of war. The guided tour through its innards was a step beyond what we get in most tank documentaries.
No matter what car you hop into each day and drive down the road in, no matter what mods or paint or how cool you think you look. You will never be as badass as when you are sitting in the largest operational tank to ever exist, rolling down the streets of ww2 europe.
Swamp Life ohhhhh right because those videos that he has IN THE FUCKING VIDEO of the jagdtiger driving on paved roads were totally digitally edited back in the 40s. Think before you speak moron.
+Swamp Life you do realize that tanks have tracks, right? therefore distubute weight evenly across the surface. also how the hell can a tank travel in mud and sand yet not be able to travel on a solid paved road.... enlighten me please.
So many facts are wrong in this. The Tiger II chassis was 150mm at the front, and thus was same on Jagdtiger. The IS-2 thus would have been incapable of penetrating the tank frontally at essentially all but point blank range, and in combat (IIRC), the Jagdtiger never was penetrated frontally. You also failed to specify the IS tank: The original IS (1) had only an 85mm gun, it was with the arrival of the IS-2 which mounted the 122mm gun.
+Mike Hunt ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) what you say is true. In the books they researched and found -NO- instance where the frontal armor of a Tiger 2 was penetrated by any enemy weapon. And anywhere it did show up, the tiger 2's created awesome havoc and destruction among enemy tank forces. But against enemies with ten thousand times more tanks and everything else it was no use.
***** Exactly right. Also depends on where they get hit. "Armour guys" like to talk in terms of the thickness of the frontal armour or the mantlet but in reality, that's not what anyone is going to aim for. Even really heavy tanks have their weak points, such as the plate behind the wheels or surrounding the engine bay. Check this picture of a Tiger II. While is wasn't destroyed by a Panzerfaust, the picture shows an awful lot of things which are ignored in these kinds of discussions: www.militaryimages.net/media/tiger-ii-destroyed.15852/full?d=0 Notice how thin the armour is underneath and on the lower sides.
Don't be too sure. Panzerfaust has more than 1 variant. Maybe you know, the PanzerFaust and Panzerschreck were a solid copy of the US bazooka, of course with some modifications of the german engineers. Their penetrations were about 100-150 mm but it was depend on the soldier who used it.He had to be brave to fight with tanks inside 30m. If he lost the target, the tank killed him.
Inertia Gaming I must say that YOU don't know shit about tanks. shermans and t34's were the shittiest fucking tanks of the war LMAO. even a Panzer 3 could take out a sherman or t34. the Tiger could take out a sherman from over 2.5 km away and the t34 from over 3 km away
UFCMania155 Ok, I hope you are ready. First off, German tanks were EXTREMELY unreliable. More Jagdtigers were disabled due to breaking down than to enemy fire. That is a major issue. The Tiger I was only really the kind of the battlefield for 1-2 years, and after 1943 most american tanks and some british tanks aswell as nearly all russian tanks could destroy them. You have to remember that a Tiger I, Tiger II, or Jagdtiger/Jagdpanther etc were a novelty on the battlefield and were rarely seen. Germany's mass produced Panther II was about equal the the US' M4A3E8 and basically everything from the M4A3 family and also the M4A2 family. An E8 could easily kite and kill a Tiger I. There is also video of a M26 Pershing destroying a Panther. The only real reason Germany had superior tanks for a while was because they had been preparing for a war and as such had been designing tanks, whilst the US had to usher the M4 into production as soon as possible in response.
Been to this museum, it is terrific! Sat inside an infantry tank mark 1 that had been used for target practice, and had holes of various calibres in it. Scary, really. Anyway, just go there!
And pretty much useless. It was unreliable due to engine and transmission being overtaxed, it had pour mobility - especialy at the long haul, and it used up to 1000 liters of fuel on a 100km. The fuel consumption and frequent breakdowns of engine and transmission were cripling flaws, as the state germany was in at the time meant that both fuel and spare parts were in short supply.
But if germans had still some kind of air capabilities ,mobility would not be a big problem if JT was just used as defensive weapon. Concept was not that bad ,timing was .
ex59neo53 A defensive weapon is only usefull if you can get it where the enemy is attacking. And the JT simply lacked the mobility to get where it was needed. It did have some success in a more or less static defense, but only if the enemy obliged to attack where it was. It couldn't react well enough to enemy movement.
Adam Savage "" Might as well be saying "The red baron was not a fan of the A7V, he much preferred the Fokker Tri-Plane"."" Why would I might as well be saying that? Otto Carius was commander of a Tiger I from 1942 to 1944. He was then a commander of a Jagtiger in 1945. He fought in both vehicles and much preferred the Tiger I.
the tiger 1 had the exact same frontal armor as a well known tank in ww2, the tank im speaking of later had a very very pure tank on tank battle and completely destroyed the t-34 which had EVERY advantage, the tank im speaking of was built from about 43 to 45,and over 50k were built. it faced tiger 1 and tiger 2 tanks a total of 3 times in ww2,and it won 2 of those. think now ok? the sherman out killed both tigers and t-34,panthers and anything else in front of it, and people brag about tigers, p....llll.....eeeeeeease
triggernutsy1 The Sherman never had the same frontal armour of the Tiger I. Only the Jumbo had thicker armour but these were not common and they only had the 75mm gun. They were not up armed until near the very end of the war. Tigers faced Shermans on numerous occasions, starting in Tunisia in 1943. Tigers had an overall 10 to 1 kill ratio in their favour during WW2. The highest of any tank of WW2. By the way, the Sherman was first built in 1942, not 1943.
They really should have mentioned that the upper glacis plate had 150mm of armor angled at 50° which was something like 230 mm or effective armor and the lower glacis plate had 100mm angled at 50° which is comparable to a plate of 155mm thickness without angles. There was barely any gun in WW2 that could really penetrate such values.
Inertia Gaming Hmm, theoretically, probably. But the SU-152 was a bunker-burster really. It was not really a very accurate gun and the low ammo and reload made it less suited for tank hunting. It was usually used in batteries. The Ferdinand though had all around flat armor. Though a 152mm shell sure can mess up your day pretty good, even in a Tiger 2. Still. There is a chance that the AP shell might ricochet from the front of the Tiger 2. Albeit if the distance is high enough the 152mm gun might hit the armor at a very high trajectory and thus having a better chance of penetration. That was one of the advantages of the IS2 with the 122mm gun fighting panthers on larger distances.
+Inertia Gaming And that';s correct. From ALL of the anti-tank guns used in WW2 barely any was capable of defeating the front armor. I never said impossible :). The 152mm and eventually the soviet 122mm. But hardly the most common anti tank guns used in WW2, which have been 50mm, 75mm and 76mm guns. Albeit, the Tiger 2 and even more so the Jagdtiger have been equally rare opponents! I guess cracks in the armor was much more of a serious issue here than just penetration though. But both, the Tiger 2 and Jagdtiger have been far from invincible machines. As far as I know, several vehicles have been taken out in combat, at least one Tiger 2 in the Ardennes from hits and damages to the guns, tracks and several other key components, while moving trough Stravelot and La Gleize. The Jagdtiger also had always to recalibrate its optics after some time due to vibrations while driving and shooting.
ITT: Lots of people who thought like Hitler did: "Big = impressive = scary". Unfortunately, big gun + big armor = big associated problems. Big fuel consumption during a time when every drop was scarce, big cost when every Reichsmark was scarce, and big strain on supporting parts. Otto Carius said the things were virtually useless except in carefully prepared ambushes because the moment you started driving it cross country without the travel lock, the barrel started swinging and losing zero with the sights and needed to be re-sighted, which took several hours (not under fire, which they rarely were). Yes, I too would have loved to see a working Maus or even a working Ratte or Monster, but only as an appreciative student of history. As a military tactician, the things were just mindbogglingly stupid and wasteful, and proof that Hitler became a shittier general the longer the war went on. There was never anything in the US or Soviet arsenal that demanded such a beast, anyway. Not even the IS series. You don't kill a heavy vehicle with an even heavier one, you think asymmetrically. The Germans could have held on for another year if they'd made nothing but StuG III F/Gs.
Exactly. As much of a coffin as the Shermans were, they were at least practical from being so prolific. And the things could be use for just about anything.
It would be interesting to find out the relative cost of a Jagdtiger to a StuG III F/G. Suspect that the money/resources for one Jagdtiger would get you ten or more StuG, and the production time would be shorter. It wasn't that a Jagdtiger battalion was not a useful army asset, but having a lot more StuGs would vastly more useful. It is surprising to me that the Germans continue to use the under powered Maybach engine. They had developed compact aerial diesel engines in the 1930s, that had proved too sluggish to be useful for combat aircraft. But the issues that proved troublesome for combat aircraft - no being able to rev up quickly in combat situations - would be inconsequential for a Jagdtiger or Tiger II. The Junkers Jumo 205 had almost 900 hp and could have been adapted for a tank chassis. I have read that the Leyland Motors L60 tank engine used in the Chieftain was based on the Napier Culverin diesel engine that in turn was based on their licensed production of Junkers engines. So it was possible to do this.
It is my favourite tank in WoT! I simply love it! Yes it's not that flexible or fast...but its armor is great! And seeing my baby in "real" makes it even better :) It is pure power!
A huge, useless, slow, aerial target, heavy, unreliable tank Very good engineering The engine was propense to breakdowns, the transmission i won't even tell, the cannon often misfired and it was so heavy it couldn't cross bridges Well, i guess is too good to be true
I believe that thats correct and the 122 on the is2 was able to penetrate the lower glaces of the Jagdtiger. Also before I forget isnt there a 88mm version of the Jagdtiger???
+Zach Young Been playing World of Tanks ? :) Yes, there was a Jagdtiger with an 88. Late in the war, hull production outstripped gun production, and since they needed every vehicle they could get as soon as possible, they put the 88mm gun of the Tiger II onto it rather than wait for the 128mm production to catch up.
+James V. D. Bosch Armor thickness depends on the model, as it changed throughout its lifespan. If i've understood it correctly, when the IS-2 first appeared, it had 120mm frontal armor. In the 1944 model upgrade however, this was reduced to 100mm, but with a uniform glacis plate angled at 60 degrees (so offering better protection than the 120mm of the previous model).
I've stood next to that in Bovington. The videos really don't give you the same sense of size as to how big these things really are. This and the Tiger II are enormous when you're next to them.
Only THREE Jagdtigers took out 25 tanks in one sitting? That is HORRIFYING. As much as I like this thing, it's damn lucky these didn't get onto the battlefield earlier. The Allies would have been in deep trouble.
Yeah, but imagine if they'd had that extra time to iron out the kinks in the design. Tiger II's and Jagdtigers with more reliable engines would have been the doom of the allies. They already had enough trouble dealing with Tiger 1s.
Biggest sniper battles ever. I imagine tank battles would have turned into long range ambushes with T28s and Jagdtigers trying to pick each other off from kilometers away. And, uh, the T95 isn't a real tank design. It's a fictional derivative of the T28 prototype. Is all your knowledge based on World of Tanks? They're not 100% factual.
The other JAgTIGER i got too see up close was in aberdeen proving ground Maryland which had a glancing hit in the frontal plate and a hit on the cannon but not penetrated.
The tanks were only useful because of the German retreat. Without the enemy actually coming towards the Germans, the Jagdtiger could never move the distances demanded of tanks earlier in the war. In operation Barbarossa, the early war German tanks could be relied upon to push the Soviet forces hundreds of kilometers before they had to wait for the infantry to move up. The Jagdtiger could barely be relied upon to move a few kilometers to get to a good defensive position, then it could do some maneuvering to aim the gun. But using it in Operation Barbarossa would have been impossible, without newer engine designs.
Well commented about their ponderous bulk although most of tank movements from factory to bases and the front was by rail even in the Barbarossa era also later on the metal quality was less due to a lack of manganese and molybdenum etc hence transmission issues also the quality of fuel was generally poorer as the war progressed and lack of oils
I don't get why all the Jagdtigers where sent on the western front when the worst you would see is a firefly and the odd Pershing or two when they could have helped destroy the is-2 threat especially the mod 1944 with very sloped armour. Just Soviet ranks in general rather than the Sherman army. It would have cleaned up the soviets big stronk tanks easily. Not to mention their air superior wasn't as intense as the Americans who could wipe out the Jagdtigers before they could even get to combat.
The Jagdtigers gun was Overkill at ANY front. The Tiger IIs long 88 had no Problems penetrating the IS-2 Mod 1944 from the front, and still at longer Ranges than the IS-2 could do any damals whatsoever to the Tiger
can someone tell me why they "scratched up" the tanks with welds or whatever that was... what was the purpose of this "scratching up" of the structure I see on all the German tanks?? Unskilled machinists practicing welding on the outside just to get practice? help me understand fellow tankers!
Mecanica Armamentistica Alemana.... inigualable, que imaginacion tenia heschel y porsche con los deiseños. Para mis los diseños mas hermosos de tanques de la historia
no, en realidad no, yo puedo tratar de comunicarme solo con los que hablan español, si tu eres un chismoso que quieres meter tus narices en todos los comentarios, es tu peo
+Radoslaw.W hahahaha complejo de superioridad? nosotros tenemos el cerebro para hablar mas de un idioma y ustedes mientras tienen la comodidad de que todo el mundo hable su idioma, se quedan atras... y creo que vos sos el que usa el google traductor hahahaha
a little fun fact: between 0:42 and 1:15, you can see my hometown Iserlohn. In our local museum there is still the story told about "exchanging" 3 Königstiger for the sake of the city. Glad they did it ^^
Amazing tank! I think it should get more credit. For a big powerful tank it moves really good in the old movies shown. This late in the war it is incredible that the Germans could build a tank like this. It is no surprise that there were reliability issues which I believe mostly have to do with the bombing of industry, lack of resources and skilled labor. But yes I believe the Germans should have focused what was left of their resources on making as many panthers as possible. Great video.
Can we have Chieftain back? He doesn't need to read of a teleprompter and actually knows information about the tanks, he also isn't nearly this awkward...
i used to play world of tanks only thing that made me stop was the hacking and also they put tanks from vietnam up against tiger tanks took the fun right out of it i might start playing again someday though
Snake1995 Gaming aimbot, which I assume you mean by hacking, is mostly gone now and whatever tank game you play, the tiger tanks will always be put against cold war vehicles
incorrect bicycle the suitability of your name is quite appropriate. Panzer 8 didn’t see action, neither did the ‘E’ series of vehicles get further than the blueprint stage. Have a lozenge for your cough.
Question, why did we have tanks and tank destroyers in WW2? Weren't regular tanks mostly firing to destroy other tanks? Most Tank destroyers had the same gun as the tiger tanks, the 88mm
Tanks in ww2 were basically designed as moving steel bunkers. Not for tank on tank combat. They mosly fired high explosive at emplavements but when enemy countries adopted the same tactics tank destroyers were designed. Hope that answers your question!
Tank destroyers are specifically designed to fight tanks (mobility, gun, ammo, ...). Regular tanks in ww2 were designed to bring infantry support (He rounds, mounted MG's, ...)
not the truth you want to hear guy, but those big guns on the tigers and panthers etc, did nothing. why did the sherman do so well? because it was made right,period
I will watch it now, but I know that it is the heaviest ever in series built tank until this day! It was using huge ressources that is why I like the "Jagdpanther" more, but the 12,8-cm-PjK 44 L/55 from the Jagdtiger... I think nothing from WW2 hit by this could survive such a caliber with a 55 barrel lenght...the Panzergranate 40 was rare because of the Wolfram, but they tried to use other metal substitutes, but it was still very rare, Panzergranate 39 was standard and largely available, on a 30° degree angel at 2000 meters the Panzergranate 39 was 117 mm! At 500 Meters it was even 166 mm. Panzergranate 40 had 148 mm at 2000 Meters and for 1000 Meters the usual Panzergranate 39 had 143 mm while the Panzergranate 40 had 167 mm penetration! At 500 Meter the few PzGr 40 was not used I guess since at such a short range (930 m/s speed at shooting) it was only 166 vs 178 mm. Imagine the US would already have seen the Danger from Stalin and the 20 July plot would be successfull and the USA would have helped the "New" Non-Hitler Germany to fight Communism... 1,000 of these beasts with enough fuel and Wolfram ammo^^ To compare that: T-34 Model 1940: 15-45 mm armor T-34 Model 1941: 20-52 mm T-34 Model 1942: 20-65 mm T-34 Model 1943: 20-70 mm T-34-85: 20-90 mm Model 1940 had 26 tons, the T-34/85 had 32 tons... I think with that the chassis was "done", The IS-1 and IS-2 had an heavy armour but even this could not survive the Jagdtiger gun...
Few corrections. Jagdtiger had penetration of 200mm at 1000 meters and 148mm at 2000 meters. Also the part which he claims is 100mm of armor is infact 150mm.
Another correction, well, not entirely. He said the gun was the Pak L/55, but its actually Pak 44 L/55. And one more thing, how come he didn't mention the preposterously long Pak 44 L/61, the tank's top gun in World of Tanks? Was that something that only existed in blueprints or was a prototype (like so many vehicles in WoT)?
Most of the 'Wunderwaffe' were being researched, tested and poised to be put into production before the war. It was the early stunning defeats that became the fait accompli and lead to the so called WunderWaffe attempting to be rushed into production too late. For example the Tiger I was designed in 36, and if you look closely the chassis resembles that of the Pzkw IV. I still have trouble understanding why the Nazi Hierarchy waited until late '41 to put Germany on a war footing. Another misnomer is the 'two front war referred to after June '44. In reality Germany had been fighting almost continuously on at least three fronts, if you count the North African theatre, the war in the Atlantic and most importantly the air war. so by '44 Germany was fighting on at least 4 fronts. A French government official visited the still ruinous remains at Stalingrad after the war, and commented' What an incredible people!' to which somebody replied 'Yes the Russians fought very well', but the official replied ' No, I'm talking about the Germans, for getting so far.'
Tank Penguin this is the Porsche hull variant of the Jagdtiger. Only a few Jagdtigers were constructed on Porsche hulls and the rest were constructed with a normal tiger 2 chassis
Hitler thought that BIGGER meant better. In reality, it was a huge waste of Germany's steel resources and instead of building the much agile and deadly Tiger 1 and Panther tanks the German industry was forced to build monstrosities like this...
Dougla Don The Tiger I could cross bridges though, that was a big advantage. Fording across a river is slow and runs the risk of bogging down the tank and killing the crew.
What a monster! Have there ever been plans to produce a Jagdtiger on the chassis of the "normal" Tiger 1 ? Or can the Ferdinand/Elefant be seen as such a variation?
they used the same engine as on the panther - a tank that weighed maybe 20 tons less. This thing could not get out of its own way. It was a big gun that occasionally was capable of movement, in between breakdowns. Also there were very few of them and it was still meat on the table for a typhoon ground attack aircraft firing rockets. And those the allies had, thousands of em.
finsfan90 , world of tanks is a piece of shit , you shoot 10 times at the comkmander cupola , he dead , ok , nothing else damaged , all the other cred alive , gun functional engine good af , still blows up , where the fuck is the logic ?
Take the already overstretched engine of the Tiger and add 20 tonnes. It's a wonder they ever got it to move at all! That gun though, 4 inches of AP at over a mile away and with the German optics, you can be sure they hit what they were aiming for. Great video.
Worstname evar He is also the reason for not having a lot of tanks in WoT right now. If I recall, on For The Record before SS got hired by My.com, the makers of Armored Warfare, we was hinting that this guy pissed off enough people and prevented a full European tree containing tanks of various nations from that era. Real piece of work, but then again, so is most of the WGEU payroll. Last I heard it was being completely restructured and I think this guy was one of the ones getting the well deserved boot-out-the-door.
JudgieThePirate his job was to go around to museums and create relations which would allow WG to get different information about the tank. Well he didn't want to do his job so when he did he was pissy and acted like an ass. So now the museums don't want to deal with him, and by extension WG. This is how I understand it at least.
Well from what we could see in ww2 battles or from test ground, Russian 122mm or 152mm could damage German heavy panzers very much. Even if not penetrating Tiger II, Ferdinand or JagdTiger, the impact broke pieces of metal from the inner side of the steelplate and those fragments hurt the crew. Modern shells do the same thing intentionaly.
Couldn't care less about world of tanks but these little mini documentaries are great! Thanks for making them.
Upvoted for not writing "could care less"
totally agree
Peter Timowreef. 😂 I have become a tank enthusiast because of world of tanks. If u like tanks, you should definitely give wot a try
Skelotor Two well I haven't played warthunder. Thanks for the suggestion
It's also not for people who just don't give a shit about it, like me.
This thing was an absolute beast. basically unbeatable from the front. Your only chance of taking it out was to flank it and even then you'd have to be pretty close to penetrate the 80mm of slightly sloped armor. it was rushed into production which really wrecked havoc on quality control. Also the crew was hastily trained and put into action which only served to increase breakdown problems as an inexperienced driver could easily overwork the engine and cause problems. Otto Carius who survived the war and died at the age of 92 in 2015 was unique for his experience as commander of a Tiger 1 a Tiger 2 and finally a Jagdtiger, he accumulated 150 tank kills by the end of the war. In his book he wrote that in one engagement a Jagdtiger shot through a house, clean to the other side and destroyed a Sherman hiding behind it. He also states that he and this team of Jagdtigers laid out an ambush for a group of Shermans they knew where heading their way. He states that it would have been a massacre for the Americans however the citizens of a nearby town warned the Americans not to advance because "very big German tanks" where waiting for them, lol. This forced Otto and his team to retreat so as not to be flanked. He wrote that in the few engagements he was in the Jagdtiger he lost count of hits he heard hitting the tank, none penetrated. Also according to Wiki the Battle of Remagen - "When they finally engaged the American armor around Herborn, Jagdtigers were able to attack U.S. tanks at up to 3 kilometers (1.9 mi) and reported destroying 30 units." This was perhaps the only time the Jagdtiger was able to utilize its true strength, long range destruction while being immune to anything the allies could muster.
+Ingaz The sides and rear were vulnerable to common Allied anti-tank weapons, the roof was vulnerable to plunging artillery fire and the front was vulnerable at close ranges to T30E16 HVAP.
Ingaz they could be destroyed from air
mechanical breakdowns, lack of fuel... but otherwise a beast
Both the side and the rear had 80 mm of armor with the sides being at a slight angle making the 80mm more like 85-90 mm of armor. 85mm of armor is not vulnerable to common allied anti tank weapons. The Bazooka being the most common of them all could only penetrate roughly 75 mm and this only when conditions where ideal, close range, and non slopped armor. And the Sherman tank would need to close to within 250 meters to penetrate the side of a Jagdtiger. so basically the Jagdtiger was very well protected from the sides and even the back had 80mm of armor, although not slopped.
+Ingas 250 meters? A Soviet firing test conducted against captured King Tigers (same side armor) showed that the American 76mm could defeat the 80mm of slightly angled plate at ranges up to 2000 meters.
when the USArmy tankers saw the Jagdtiger:
OMFG!!!! That bunker is turning our way!!!!!
And it's moving!
Quickly, press 2
"IT'S ALIIIIIIVE!!!!!"
Call a B-17!
Quick press Alt F4
hard to believe that Krupp is actually making coffe machine ...
is it only making coffee machine?
fusion 890
don't now, but i have a Krupp coffee machine.
+.:Mr-BBQ-337:. Does it shoot 88 mm AP shells from time to time?
Berke Immanis
nope, just a bit of cream
Berke Immanis
I have a really big cup.
To go with a really big coffee machine
Used to have a Tamiya kit of this tank when I was a kid which was motorised and battery powered. A good model and good fun watching it slowly advance towards you :)
I, too, had this model and it was a fun kit. It moved slowly which was a disappointment, but had I known it was more like the real thing, I would have been happier about it. I had a number of Tamiya armor kits as a kid and had fun with them. I still have a number of them that I never put together as I traveled a great deal and never had sufficient room to display them. I'll bet the newest Tamiya kit I have is 40 years old and the oldest is somewhere in its 50's! US and German tanks were my favorites and I studied WW 2 since I was a boy in elementary school.
@@13thBear, I, too, was into Tamiya model WW2 tanks. During any visit to the hobby shop, I would spend a couple of hours looking and choosing my next kit.
MUCH THANKS for those incredible close-up and interior views of this classic beast - this was a treat !!
A Tiger’s gun would wear out after 400 or 500 shots of AP rounds. I would imagine that the Jagdtiger’s gun would be roughly the same or perhaps less. I suppose very few wore out. The huge Schwerer Gustav train gun’s barrel wore out after 70 shots. In WW1 artillery factored in barrel wear when working out range.
3 jags 25 allied tanks smh
The strongest tank gun ever built, even up to now. A massive 24.5 Megajoule energy in the projectile. Really impressive. All Western tanks with 120 mm guns have only half of that with ~12 Megajoule, however on a smaller diameter for more penetration.
I spoke to a German Engineer years ago who told me the gun used in the JagdTiger was originally designed for use on all of the German Capital Ships they were going to build! Thus, the design for a Two-Part Round, per Naval safety. When they halted producing those ships, because the rest were getting sunk, they looked around and said "Hmm, wonder what we could use these in..."
@@stephenkeebler732 wow!
Is the Jgtiger really 10 meters long? thats HUGE!
ikr it looks so small
Lmao
Nah, it's only 1 meter long. This WoT guy is just very tiny and 18 centimeters tall.
Weak1ings it was merely six inches long.... dick in allies ass
Weak1ings That’s what she said
A very clear and concise explanation of this formidable weapon of war. The guided tour through its innards was a step beyond what we get in most tank documentaries.
No matter what car you hop into each day and drive down the road in, no matter what mods or paint or how cool you think you look. You will never be as badass as when you are sitting in the largest operational tank to ever exist, rolling down the streets of ww2 europe.
+XxValhallaxX- Except it couldn't really drive on roads cos it was too heavy.
Swamp Life ohhhhh right because those videos that he has IN THE FUCKING VIDEO of the jagdtiger driving on paved roads were totally digitally edited back in the 40s. Think before you speak moron.
+XxValhallaxX- lol
+Swamp Life you do realize that tanks have tracks, right? therefore distubute weight evenly across the surface. also how the hell can a tank travel in mud and sand yet not be able to travel on a solid paved road.... enlighten me please.
+Tylor Hughes I'm surprised it was able to drive on mud.
I have hugged exactly this particular beast of a beauty at Bovington! ^_^
So many facts are wrong in this. The Tiger II chassis was 150mm at the front, and thus was same on Jagdtiger. The IS-2 thus would have been incapable of penetrating the tank frontally at essentially all but point blank range, and in combat (IIRC), the Jagdtiger never was penetrated frontally.
You also failed to specify the IS tank: The original IS (1) had only an 85mm gun, it was with the arrival of the IS-2 which mounted the 122mm gun.
+Mike Hunt ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) bruh
+Mike Hunt ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) thank you good sir war thunder is proud of you
+Mike Hunt ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) what you say is true. In the books they researched and found -NO- instance where the frontal armor of a Tiger 2 was penetrated by any enemy weapon. And anywhere it did show up, the tiger 2's created awesome havoc and destruction among enemy tank forces. But against enemies with ten thousand times more tanks and everything else it was no use.
Thought the King Tiger chassis has 180mm frontally.
+ Mike Hunt. Good man I was looking for this comment!
This tank's made of wet dreams, joy and metal.
Bovington Tank Museum is just so awesome. Might go again I think...
Best in the world!
I want it, the Tiger I, the Tiger II and the JagdTiger
I would fucking love my own Jadgpanther.
Let's be real we all want a perfectly working maus
+Sam True, but I still want a Jagdtiger.
I don't want it, I need it.
@JAG also, german tanks is so beautiful build 😍
The Panzerfaust was much cheaper and probably destroyed more tanks, albeit at shorter range. The closing line says it all.
***** Exactly right. Also depends on where they get hit. "Armour guys" like to talk in terms of the thickness of the frontal armour or the mantlet but in reality, that's not what anyone is going to aim for. Even really heavy tanks have their weak points, such as the plate behind the wheels or surrounding the engine bay. Check this picture of a Tiger II. While is wasn't destroyed by a Panzerfaust, the picture shows an awful lot of things which are ignored in these kinds of discussions:
www.militaryimages.net/media/tiger-ii-destroyed.15852/full?d=0
Notice how thin the armour is underneath and on the lower sides.
***** Yes. A shaped charge would make an awful mess of that.
You can be sure Panzerfaust destroyed more thanks than jagdtigers !
Don't be too sure. Panzerfaust has more than 1 variant. Maybe you know, the PanzerFaust and Panzerschreck were a solid copy of the US bazooka, of course with some modifications of the german engineers. Their penetrations were about 100-150 mm but it was depend on the soldier who used it.He had to be brave to fight with tanks inside 30m. If he lost the target, the tank killed him.
lmaoooooooooo 3 jags kill 25 allied tanks dude just stop
still a mean looking tank , I want one
Hard but possible
gasdorfy munchy you can get one in War Thunder
Oh have I got something for u
@@mrmacedon light tanks can pen the frontal armor of this thing in war thunder it's very inaccurate
Well, I'm born in merica, and I must say one thing, German tanks/technology are number 1.
I must say you do not know anything about tanks then.
Inertia Gaming lol
Inertia Gaming I must say that YOU don't know shit about tanks. shermans and t34's were the shittiest fucking tanks of the war LMAO. even a Panzer 3 could take out a sherman or t34. the Tiger could take out a sherman from over 2.5 km away and the t34 from over 3 km away
Inertia Gaming XD
UFCMania155
Ok, I hope you are ready.
First off, German tanks were EXTREMELY unreliable. More Jagdtigers were disabled due to breaking down than to enemy fire. That is a major issue. The Tiger I was only really the kind of the battlefield for 1-2 years, and after 1943 most american tanks and some british tanks aswell as nearly all russian tanks could destroy them. You have to remember that a Tiger I, Tiger II, or Jagdtiger/Jagdpanther etc were a novelty on the battlefield and were rarely seen. Germany's mass produced Panther II was about equal the the US' M4A3E8 and basically everything from the M4A3 family and also the M4A2 family. An E8 could easily kite and kill a Tiger I. There is also video of a M26 Pershing destroying a Panther. The only real reason Germany had superior tanks for a while was because they had been preparing for a war and as such had been designing tanks, whilst the US had to usher the M4 into production as soon as possible in response.
Thank you for making these Vehicle Specific documentaries. I have always wanted to see the insides of these monsters.
3 Jagtigers kill 25 tanks....:)
25 tanks kill 0 Jagtigers......:)
+David Kroupa wow your a fucking genius..
+David Kroupa +1 for the pic
+David Kroupa you can hear......:)
Warpack using bastards!
Been to this museum, it is terrific! Sat inside an infantry tank mark 1 that had been used for target practice, and had holes of various calibres in it. Scary, really. Anyway, just go there!
I love that clip at the beginning. the 512th and assorted infantry rolling in like they own the place
They see me rollin...
what a beautiful tank,German engineering!
And pretty much useless.
It was unreliable due to engine and transmission being overtaxed, it had pour mobility - especialy at the long haul, and it used up to 1000 liters of fuel on a 100km.
The fuel consumption and frequent breakdowns of engine and transmission were cripling flaws, as the state germany was in at the time meant that both fuel and spare parts were in short supply.
But if germans had still some kind of air capabilities ,mobility would not be a big problem if JT was just used as defensive weapon.
Concept was not that bad ,timing was .
ex59neo53
A defensive weapon is only usefull if you can get it where the enemy is attacking.
And the JT simply lacked the mobility to get where it was needed.
It did have some success in a more or less static defense, but only if the enemy obliged to attack where it was. It couldn't react well enough to enemy movement.
@@Bird_Dog00 Have you seen that video of it that means to you poor mobility you stupid
@@Bird_Dog00 Frequent breakdowns even with hurrying production they were still solving issues to it
Sherman Tank : *CONFUSED SCREAMING*
Otto Carius was not a big fan of the Jadgtiger. He much preferred the Tiger I.
Yes this was pure shit.
Adam Savage
"" Might as well be saying "The red baron was not a fan of the A7V, he much preferred the Fokker Tri-Plane".""
Why would I might as well be saying that? Otto Carius was commander of a Tiger I from 1942 to 1944. He was then a commander of a Jagtiger in 1945. He fought in both vehicles and much preferred the Tiger I.
the tiger 1 had the exact same frontal armor as a well known tank in ww2, the tank im speaking of later had a very very pure tank on tank battle and completely destroyed the t-34 which had EVERY advantage, the tank im speaking of was built from about 43 to 45,and over 50k were built. it faced tiger 1 and tiger 2 tanks a total of 3 times in ww2,and it won 2 of those. think now ok? the sherman out killed both tigers and t-34,panthers and anything else in front of it, and people brag about tigers, p....llll.....eeeeeeease
triggernutsy1
The Sherman never had the same frontal armour of the Tiger I. Only the Jumbo had thicker armour but these were not common and they only had the 75mm gun. They were not up armed until near the very end of the war.
Tigers faced Shermans on numerous occasions, starting in Tunisia in 1943.
Tigers had an overall 10 to 1 kill ratio in their favour during WW2. The highest of any tank of WW2.
By the way, the Sherman was first built in 1942, not 1943.
Cameron Burge no tank american tank had the same thickness of the Tiger 1 in WW2 americans tended to slope their amour not thicken it
They really should have mentioned that the upper glacis plate had 150mm of armor angled at 50° which was something like 230 mm or effective armor and the lower glacis plate had 100mm angled at 50° which is comparable to a plate of 155mm thickness without angles. There was barely any gun in WW2 that could really penetrate such values.
SU-152, known to penetrate the front of a Ferdinand's Tiger P hull which was somewhere around that if not more.
Inertia Gaming
Hmm, theoretically, probably. But the SU-152 was a bunker-burster really. It was not really a very accurate gun and the low ammo and reload made it less suited for tank hunting. It was usually used in batteries. The Ferdinand though had all around flat armor. Though a 152mm shell sure can mess up your day pretty good, even in a Tiger 2. Still. There is a chance that the AP shell might ricochet from the front of the Tiger 2. Albeit if the distance is high enough the 152mm gun might hit the armor at a very high trajectory and thus having a better chance of penetration. That was one of the advantages of the IS2 with the 122mm gun fighting panthers on larger distances.
CrniWuk
Not arguing about practicality of a SU-152 sniping one, he was just claiming there was barely any tank that could penetrate that.
+Inertia Gaming And that';s correct. From ALL of the anti-tank guns used in WW2 barely any was capable of defeating the front armor. I never said impossible :). The 152mm and eventually the soviet 122mm. But hardly the most common anti tank guns used in WW2, which have been 50mm, 75mm and 76mm guns. Albeit, the Tiger 2 and even more so the Jagdtiger have been equally rare opponents! I guess cracks in the armor was much more of a serious issue here than just penetration though. But both, the Tiger 2 and Jagdtiger have been far from invincible machines. As far as I know, several vehicles have been taken out in combat, at least one Tiger 2 in the Ardennes from hits and damages to the guns, tracks and several other key components, while moving trough Stravelot and La Gleize. The Jagdtiger also had always to recalibrate its optics after some time due to vibrations while driving and shooting.
ITT: Lots of people who thought like Hitler did: "Big = impressive = scary". Unfortunately, big gun + big armor = big associated problems. Big fuel consumption during a time when every drop was scarce, big cost when every Reichsmark was scarce, and big strain on supporting parts. Otto Carius said the things were virtually useless except in carefully prepared ambushes because the moment you started driving it cross country without the travel lock, the barrel started swinging and losing zero with the sights and needed to be re-sighted, which took several hours (not under fire, which they rarely were).
Yes, I too would have loved to see a working Maus or even a working Ratte or Monster, but only as an appreciative student of history. As a military tactician, the things were just mindbogglingly stupid and wasteful, and proof that Hitler became a shittier general the longer the war went on.
There was never anything in the US or Soviet arsenal that demanded such a beast, anyway. Not even the IS series. You don't kill a heavy vehicle with an even heavier one, you think asymmetrically. The Germans could have held on for another year if they'd made nothing but StuG III F/Gs.
+Alex Tocqueville or Hetzers ! Hetzer will hetz
Exactly. As much of a coffin as the Shermans were, they were at least practical from being so prolific. And the things could be use for just about anything.
I think you just figured out how megalomania works. Or doesn’t, as the case may be.
It would be interesting to find out the relative cost of a Jagdtiger to a StuG III F/G. Suspect that the money/resources for one Jagdtiger would get you ten or more StuG, and the production time would be shorter. It wasn't that a Jagdtiger battalion was not a useful army asset, but having a lot more StuGs would vastly more useful. It is surprising to me that the Germans continue to use the under powered Maybach engine. They had developed compact aerial diesel engines in the 1930s, that had proved too sluggish to be useful for combat aircraft. But the issues that proved troublesome for combat aircraft - no being able to rev up quickly in combat situations - would be inconsequential for a Jagdtiger or Tiger II. The Junkers Jumo 205 had almost 900 hp and could have been adapted for a tank chassis. I have read that the Leyland Motors L60 tank engine used in the Chieftain was based on the Napier Culverin diesel engine that in turn was based on their licensed production of Junkers engines. So it was possible to do this.
Alex Tocqueville well it's known that Hitler was constantly high on various drugs including meth, so it probably screwed with his decision making.
It is my favourite tank in WoT! I simply love it! Yes it's not that flexible or fast...but its armor is great! And seeing my baby in "real" makes it even better :) It is pure power!
Excellent presentation. Concise and informative.
I'm always left wanting for more footage of the inside of these tanks. Is it just me?
Another example of German engineering at its finest
A huge, useless, slow, aerial target, heavy, unreliable tank
Very good engineering
The engine was propense to breakdowns, the transmission i won't even tell, the cannon often misfired and it was so heavy it couldn't cross bridges
Well, i guess is too good to be true
@@drinkyourwater1039 German engineering is (sometimes) the greatest in the world
@@dakotaraptor5918 Sometimes. Never, as usual.
sherman lovers is barking
@@mrmedbedb1256 stfu you don t know anything about jagds
hmm, unless i am mistaken, the IS (Iosef Stalin) tank had an 85mm cannon, the 122mm was on the IS-2.
I believe that thats correct and the 122 on the is2 was able to penetrate the lower glaces of the Jagdtiger. Also before I forget isnt there a 88mm version of the Jagdtiger???
+Zach Young
Been playing World of Tanks ? :)
Yes, there was a Jagdtiger with an 88. Late in the war, hull production outstripped gun production, and since they needed every vehicle they could get as soon as possible, they put the 88mm gun of the Tiger II onto it rather than wait for the 128mm production to catch up.
+PlacidDragon They also got the glacis armour wrong, the video would have you believe the upper plate is 100mm, while in reality it's 150mm thick.
+James V. D. Bosch
Armor thickness depends on the model, as it changed throughout its lifespan. If i've understood it correctly, when the IS-2 first appeared, it had 120mm frontal armor. In the 1944 model upgrade however, this was reduced to 100mm, but with a uniform glacis plate angled at 60 degrees (so offering better protection than the 120mm of the previous model).
PlacidDragon I was actually referring to the Jagdtiger's upper plate armour, at 5:18 they show the upper plate to be 100 millimetres.
I’ve a photo of my grandad around 1946 standing on the back of that jag tiger in his uniform with his platoon🤗❤️
It may not look big now but in that year the german tehnology was like going to the moon for other coutrys
I've stood next to that in Bovington. The videos really don't give you the same sense of size as to how big these things really are. This and the Tiger II are enormous when you're next to them.
It is important to lift your hands up and hold them parallel while talking about tanks.
That Jagdtiger is one big mother! thanks for sharing
Still my favorite tank of all time. :)
Ahh, so this is what one of the chuckle brothers is up to these days!
Only THREE Jagdtigers took out 25 tanks in one sitting? That is HORRIFYING. As much as I like this thing, it's damn lucky these didn't get onto the battlefield earlier. The Allies would have been in deep trouble.
Or the Gemans since a lot of the jagdtigers broke down.
Yeah, but imagine if they'd had that extra time to iron out the kinks in the design. Tiger II's and Jagdtigers with more reliable engines would have been the doom of the allies. They already had enough trouble dealing with Tiger 1s.
marrier9999
Shermans with the 76mms could easily kill tiger 1s so.....(APCR or not). Also what if the Americans brought the T95 into battle?
Biggest sniper battles ever. I imagine tank battles would have turned into long range ambushes with T28s and Jagdtigers trying to pick each other off from kilometers away.
And, uh, the T95 isn't a real tank design. It's a fictional derivative of the T28 prototype. Is all your knowledge based on World of Tanks? They're not 100% factual.
marrier9999
The T95 name is very real according to the Wiki en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T28_Super_Heavy_Tank
Bruh this is a beauty of a T.D thanks for the upload
With better maintenance technologies and more units this tank would have kicked so many asses.
The other JAgTIGER i got too see up close was in aberdeen proving ground Maryland which had a glancing hit in the frontal plate and a hit on the cannon but not penetrated.
The "e" in Porsche is NOT SILENT!
Der Mozart no habla español
@@boricactus8454 no hablo anglais
Er kann kein Deutsch
Really enjoy this series. Ive learnt so much.
The tanks were only useful because of the German retreat. Without the enemy actually coming towards the Germans, the Jagdtiger could never move the distances demanded of tanks earlier in the war. In operation Barbarossa, the early war German tanks could be relied upon to push the Soviet forces hundreds of kilometers before they had to wait for the infantry to move up. The Jagdtiger could barely be relied upon to move a few kilometers to get to a good defensive position, then it could do some maneuvering to aim the gun. But using it in Operation Barbarossa would have been impossible, without newer engine designs.
Well commented about their ponderous bulk although most of tank movements from factory to bases and the front was by rail even in the Barbarossa era also later on the metal quality was less due to a lack of manganese and molybdenum etc hence transmission issues also the quality of fuel was generally poorer as the war progressed and lack of oils
Bring this guy back!!
I don't get why all the Jagdtigers where sent on the western front when the worst you would see is a firefly and the odd Pershing or two when they could have helped destroy the is-2 threat especially the mod 1944 with very sloped armour. Just Soviet ranks in general rather than the Sherman army. It would have cleaned up the soviets big stronk tanks easily. Not to mention their air superior wasn't as intense as the Americans who could wipe out the Jagdtigers before they could even get to combat.
+PurpleNugget64 Oh it was just the Americans on the Western Front was it?
The Jagdtigers gun was Overkill at ANY front. The Tiger IIs long 88 had no Problems penetrating the IS-2 Mod 1944 from the front, and still at longer Ranges than the IS-2 could do any damals whatsoever to the Tiger
I LOVE seeing the huge sloppy welds on the superstructure... the interlocking design was brilliant imo
can someone tell me why they "scratched up" the tanks with welds or whatever that was... what was the purpose of this "scratching up" of the structure I see on all the German tanks?? Unskilled machinists practicing welding on the outside just to get practice? help me understand fellow tankers!
+branon mitchell maybe something to do with "casting" those huge metal pieces
+branon mitchell It's Zimmerit anti magnetic paste .
Mecanica Armamentistica Alemana.... inigualable, que imaginacion tenia heschel y porsche con los deiseños. Para mis los diseños mas hermosos de tanques de la historia
+Radoslaw.W or... learn español :v
+Radoslaw.W learn spanish and try again. aprenda español e intentelo después
no, en realidad no, yo puedo tratar de comunicarme solo con los que hablan español, si tu eres un chismoso que quieres meter tus narices en todos los comentarios, es tu peo
+Radoslaw.W hahahaha complejo de superioridad? nosotros tenemos el cerebro para hablar mas de un idioma y ustedes mientras tienen la comodidad de que todo el mundo hable su idioma, se quedan atras... y creo que vos sos el que usa el google traductor hahahaha
+Radoslaw.W you are rude. spanish over takes english in terms of numbers and is very popular. i am bilingual you should learn both its better.
fantastic presentation
Inside the Health Bar: Health Bar Simulator.
a little fun fact: between 0:42 and 1:15, you can see my hometown Iserlohn. In our local museum there is still the story told about "exchanging" 3 Königstiger for the sake of the city. Glad they did it ^^
It must have been loud in there when it was fired.
Amazing tank! I think it should get more credit. For a big powerful tank it moves really good in the old movies shown. This late in the war it is incredible that the Germans could build a tank like this. It is no surprise that there were reliability issues which I believe mostly have to do with the bombing of industry, lack of resources and skilled labor. But yes I believe the Germans should have focused what was left of their resources on making as many panthers as possible. Great video.
+Ma B No, the E-100 and the Maus were much larger wastes of time and steel.
E-100 never existed
Sherman tankers to Jagdtiger crew, “ Thank you for surrendering....and we really mean that. Have a cigarette and some candy”
Great video, thanks very much for sharing.
I Love the German Tank Design and Powerness *_*
A Tiger Destroyd a T-34 in range off 5 km :)
a jagdpanther killed a t34 while it was 14km away
Dangarus LW i posted it on the wrong vid i meant a jagdpanther did do it
+Dangarus LW what 120mm gun?
michael2011148 i think he meant 128
+Leon Hemba Yeah, a pz4 destroyed a t-34 while still being assembled in Ural mountains factories, 1500 miles away.
I like the Twisted Metal: Black menu music playing in the background throughout the whole video. Spooky
Can we have Chieftain back? He doesn't need to read of a teleprompter and actually knows information about the tanks, he also isn't nearly this awkward...
I didn't know Gary Neville had a part time job. Nicely presented Gary.
Wow, that was pretty cool. Why not set these videos as listed?
I agree they should do this for most surviving WW2 tanks that are in Wot xbox
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All of the Challengers Videos.
i used to play world of tanks only thing that made me stop was the hacking and also they put tanks from vietnam up against tiger tanks took the fun right out of it i might start playing again someday though
Snake1995 Gaming aimbot, which I assume you mean by hacking, is mostly gone now and whatever tank game you play, the tiger tanks will always be put against cold war vehicles
I have a picture of me next to this exact Jagdtiger
Heaviest tank that saw action in ww2!
*cough cough* panzer 8 *cough cough*
incorrect bicycle the suitability of your name is quite appropriate.
Panzer 8 didn’t see action, neither did the ‘E’ series of vehicles get further than the blueprint stage. Have a lozenge for your cough.
Question, why did we have tanks and tank destroyers in WW2? Weren't regular tanks mostly firing to destroy other tanks? Most Tank destroyers had the same gun as the tiger tanks, the 88mm
Tanks in ww2 were basically designed as moving steel bunkers. Not for tank on tank combat. They mosly fired high explosive at emplavements but when enemy countries adopted the same tactics tank destroyers were designed. Hope that answers your question!
Tank destroyers are specifically designed to fight tanks (mobility, gun, ammo, ...). Regular tanks in ww2 were designed to bring infantry support (He rounds, mounted MG's, ...)
Why not just put an armor piercing round in a regular tank?
not the truth you want to hear guy, but those big guns on the tigers and panthers etc, did nothing. why did the sherman do so well? because it was made right,period
triggernutsy1 no, the gun were mediocre at the beginning, but there were a shitload of sherman
I will watch it now, but I know that it is the heaviest ever in series built tank until this day! It was using huge ressources that is why I like the "Jagdpanther" more, but the 12,8-cm-PjK 44 L/55 from the Jagdtiger... I think nothing from WW2 hit by this could survive such a caliber with a 55 barrel lenght...the Panzergranate 40 was rare because of the Wolfram, but they tried to use other metal substitutes, but it was still very rare, Panzergranate 39 was standard and largely available, on a 30° degree angel at 2000 meters the Panzergranate 39 was 117 mm! At 500 Meters it was even 166 mm. Panzergranate 40 had 148 mm at 2000 Meters and for 1000 Meters the usual Panzergranate 39 had 143 mm while the Panzergranate 40 had 167 mm penetration!
At 500 Meter the few PzGr 40 was not used I guess since at such a short range (930 m/s speed at shooting) it was only 166 vs 178 mm. Imagine the US would already have seen the Danger from Stalin and the 20 July plot would be successfull and the USA would have helped the "New" Non-Hitler Germany to fight Communism... 1,000 of these beasts with enough fuel and Wolfram ammo^^
To compare that:
T-34 Model 1940: 15-45 mm armor
T-34 Model 1941: 20-52 mm
T-34 Model 1942: 20-65 mm
T-34 Model 1943: 20-70 mm
T-34-85: 20-90 mm
Model 1940 had 26 tons, the T-34/85 had 32 tons... I think with that the chassis was "done", The IS-1 and IS-2 had an heavy armour but even this could not survive the Jagdtiger gun...
I dont say this alot but darn!, if i got up to that with my sherman i would just piss the whole tank full of freightment.
Wow Barry chuckle knows a lot about thanks
i would shit myself and lie dead in it if i saw a jagdtiger rolling towards me in the war
Few corrections. Jagdtiger had penetration of 200mm at 1000 meters and 148mm at 2000 meters. Also the part which he claims is 100mm of armor is infact 150mm.
Hé said 167mm when sloped
+Justin sénéchal it is a raw 150mm
Another correction, well, not entirely. He said the gun was the Pak L/55, but its actually Pak 44 L/55.
And one more thing, how come he didn't mention the preposterously long Pak 44 L/61, the tank's top gun in World of Tanks? Was that something that only existed in blueprints or was a prototype (like so many vehicles in WoT)?
would be such an honor to serve in such a vehicle. to be the best on the field. to be revered by the enemy. to send the enemy back to their foxholes.
You're dead. Shut up.
Adolf Hitler go fuck yourself you dumbass go read a ww2 book
And having the fear of your life ,when watching an ennemy tank to your 3/9 or 6 ...
Most of the 'Wunderwaffe' were being researched, tested and poised to be put into production before the war. It was the early stunning defeats that became the fait accompli and lead to the so called WunderWaffe attempting to be rushed into production too late. For example the Tiger I was designed in 36, and if you look closely the chassis resembles that of the Pzkw IV.
I still have trouble understanding why the Nazi Hierarchy waited until late '41 to put Germany on a war footing.
Another misnomer is the 'two front war referred to after June '44. In reality Germany had been fighting almost continuously on at least three fronts, if you count the North African theatre, the war in the Atlantic and most importantly the air war. so by '44 Germany was fighting on at least 4 fronts.
A French government official visited the still ruinous remains at Stalingrad after the war, and commented' What an incredible people!' to which somebody replied 'Yes the Russians fought very well', but the official replied ' No, I'm talking about the Germans, for getting so far.'
25 got rekt xD it was a killing field!
Toujours aussi intéressant merci beaucoup pour les sous titres en français
Porsche not posh
Tank Penguin this is the Porsche hull variant of the Jagdtiger. Only a few Jagdtigers were constructed on Porsche hulls and the rest were constructed with a normal tiger 2 chassis
Tank Penguin Yeah, it irked me, too, that he kept saying "Porsh" instead of "Porsche".
+Tank Penguin Audi not Odi....English slang
he's brit so it's forgiven
Jill Sandwich Do Brits pronounce Porsche “porsh”?
Too little too late,I liked that expression!
Hitler thought that BIGGER meant better. In reality, it was a huge waste of Germany's steel resources and instead of building the much agile and deadly Tiger 1 and Panther tanks the German industry was forced to build monstrosities like this...
Dougla Don
The Tiger I could cross bridges though, that was a big advantage. Fording across a river is slow and runs the risk of bogging down the tank and killing the crew.
What a monster! Have there ever been plans to produce a Jagdtiger on the chassis of the "normal" Tiger 1 ? Or can the Ferdinand/Elefant be seen as such a variation?
haha the Jagdtiger (and King Tiger) glacis had 150mm armor at 50 degree slope not 100mm.
Source?
jmannetje1 common wide knowledge, Also I was misstaken 55 degree slope.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_II
Khaled Hossam (upper)150 mm (5.9 in) at 40° was wrong about the slope but it still ammounts to about 235mm of non-sloped armor.
Miratesus wikipedia could be wrong though. It's not always 100% accurate.
Those penetration figures are very understated! Try 173mm at 3000m, against 30 degree sloped RHA.
Leave it to the Germans.......they LOVE big guns!
This bloody thing is huge! I can only imagine how big an E-100 or it's derivatives would have been.
I know, outside the chieftains hatch. I couldn't be bothered making the same comment on the Maus video. :)
0:44 : Ridin´on my 2 million dollar buggatti.....
One of these has a confirmed kill at over 4 miles, that is just amazing.
I played this to my hamster
Now its a MOUSER
they used the same engine as on the panther - a tank that weighed maybe 20 tons less. This thing could not get out of its own way. It was a big gun that occasionally was capable of movement, in between breakdowns. Also there were very few of them and it was still meat on the table for a typhoon ground attack aircraft firing rockets. And those the allies had, thousands of em.
beast!
These are just awesome videos.
Soldier:what happened to him?
Medic he hit his head on this huge branch
Soldier:that's not a branch that's a jagdtiger tank gun!
Badass machine for sure...Like Today Porsche ones !
wonder if anyone here is from War Thunder :DDD
Nobody cares about that ripoff game.
yeah it sure is bad, the matchmaking...
finsfan90 , world of tanks is a piece of shit , you shoot 10 times at the comkmander cupola , he dead , ok , nothing else damaged , all the other cred alive , gun functional engine good af , still blows up , where the fuck is the logic ?
World'sFame Play'z
Its not real life....its a GAME.
yes but war thunder is way better
He sure is proud of the length of his 'member'.
85 Jagdtiger vs 60.000 Shermans. U.S are so hero´s
+Fritz Cat I'm thinking your not Jewish.
No ! I from Deutschland , I have no problems with jewish,i have problems with muslim cultur
Fritz Cat That went right over your head!!!!!!
+Hodok Yeah 30.000 vs 750
Hodok It all started when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor. Those stupid round eye's.
Outstanding video!
This tank sucked up resorces that would have been better used elsewhere.
Germans didn't have much soldiers remaining so instead of building more avg tanks they built heavy ones
Take the already overstretched engine of the Tiger and add 20 tonnes. It's a wonder they ever got it to move at all! That gun though, 4 inches of AP at over a mile away and with the German optics, you can be sure they hit what they were aiming for. Great video.
this guy has no idea what to do with his hands ... mabey in his head he is holding a box of all his repressed childhood feelings..
Worstname evar Yeah, kinda sucks at this job
the irish guy is much better, and this one makes is very obvious he is reading from a teleprompter :/
Worstname evar He is also the reason for not having a lot of tanks in WoT right now. If I recall, on For The Record before SS got hired by My.com, the makers of Armored Warfare, we was hinting that this guy pissed off enough people and prevented a full European tree containing tanks of various nations from that era. Real piece of work, but then again, so is most of the WGEU payroll. Last I heard it was being completely restructured and I think this guy was one of the ones getting the well deserved boot-out-the-door.
***** Wait.. what's happening?
JudgieThePirate his job was to go around to museums and create relations which would allow WG to get different information about the tank. Well he didn't want to do his job so when he did he was pissy and acted like an ass. So now the museums don't want to deal with him, and by extension WG. This is how I understand it at least.
Well from what we could see in ww2 battles or from test ground, Russian 122mm or 152mm could damage German heavy panzers very much. Even if not penetrating Tiger II, Ferdinand or JagdTiger, the impact broke pieces of metal from the inner side of the steelplate and those fragments hurt the crew. Modern shells do the same thing intentionaly.
Spalling only works on rivited tanks