[QUOTE=Panzerknacker;94771]The Tiger 1 and 2 did not use the “schurzen” of any other aditional armor, sometimes spare track were placed in those areas.
Wasn’t Zimmerit placed on the Tigers? Not quite additional ‘armor’ but protection nonetheless.
Yes but in the Tiger II was rarely seen due the order to stop applying the antimagnetic coat starting in september 1944. And most of the King Tigers entered in service after that date.
Engineers Tiger ?
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This speciallly modified Tiger was found abandoned by the allies near the Anzio Beach head in 1944, is say that the winch was to lay explosive charges, but that afirmation has not been confirmed by german sources.
Funny way to use such an expensive vehicle…
I recently have seen a tiger 1 being transported on a flatbed truck
Funny way to use such an expensive vehicle…
A real mistery, beside it look like a ofensive weapon, to be used against fortifications, bunkers and so, why was captured in a defensive emplacement…? nobody knows.
Maybe its one of those movie props.
Well if it was in California I can bet where it was headed.
where?
The Tiger and the Elefant series are the best tanks in WW2,designed by Ferdinand Porsche,he make excellent job
Excellent
The Porsche petrol-electric drive was far from “excellent” :rolleyes:
Images of Kursk.
To the front.
loading up.
In the bulge:
Fighting:
Another curious variant of the Tiger, this tank had aditional radio equipment for guiding the mineclearing Sd.Kfz 301 “Bordward”, so in this manner the Tiger 1 could made his way trough mines and obstacles, it was used by the heavy tank batalion 506 in late 1944 in the Western Front.
Did the Tiger (p) vk4501 befehls used by H s pzjg abtl 653 stab numbered 003 have:
- the hatch and pistol port on the rear quarters of the turret as per the tiger e mid production turret or
- the two pistols ports on the rear of the turret like other tiger h early turrets
Which model is the seconde pic?
found it on the net doing some research i think it looks like an 1/35 italeri vk4501 tiger porsche with some neat home made zimmerit
It looks much longer than the more well known Tigers. Does anybody have a reall picture of that?
That’s a Porsche Tiger.
Check this link:http://www.achtungpanzer.com/panzerkampfwagen-vi-tiger-p-vk4501p-porsche-typ-101.htm
Thanks Sergej, but why use gas power to make electrical power to turn the tracks? Why not hook the gas motors directly to the axles?
Because every engine requires some kind of a variable drive mechanism between it and the driving wheels, to take care of varying speed and power demands (variation of the engine torque) in starting, accelerating, climbing up to the hills, etc. my dear Mr. Prime Minister. 
You see, neither the mechanical gear nor the fluid transmission - as those used in automobiles - is completely adequate for a truly heavy vehicle. The variable drive obtained by a direct current electric generator on the end of the engine shaft, which supplies the series-wound, direct current traction motors with electric power at varying voltages by control of the generator field current, is the most perfect example of an almost ideal infinitely variable transmission, capable to change steplessly through an practically infinite number of effective gear ratios between maximum and minimum values. This contrasts with all other mechanical transmissions that only allow a few different - discrete gear ratios - to be selected.
And if you are asking me what those nowadays forgotten achievements of petrol-electric (or even better: Diesel-electric!) transmission were … well, just follow this link, my dear Mr. Prime minister!
http://www.hybrid-vehicle.org/hybrid-vehicle-landwehr.html
I wish you some pleasant engineering contemplations! 