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Like all German tanks, the Tiger II had a petrol engine; in this case the same 700 PS (690 hp, 515 kW) V-12 Maybach HL 230 P30 which powered the much lighter Panther and Tiger I tanks. The Tiger II was under-powered, like many other heavy tanks of World War II [citation needed], and consumed a lot of fuel, which was in short supply for the ...
During the first day of Goodwood, the unit reported the loss of thirteen tanks. July 1944 at Château Canteloup, Panzer VI (Tiger II, Königstiger) of the 503rd battalion. At the end of July, the 3rd company received new Tiger II tanks, which were subsequently destroyed in the Allied aerial attacks, with only two brought back to Germany.
The 510th Heavy Panzer Battalion (German: "schwere Panzerabteilung 510"; abbreviated: "s PzAbt 510") was a German heavy Panzer Abteilung (an independent battalion-sized unit), equipped with heavy tanks. The 510th saw action on the Eastern Front during the Second World War.
It is also known under the informal name Königstiger [22] (the German name for the "Bengal tiger"), often semi-literally translated as the 'King Tiger' or 'Royal Tiger' by Allied soldiers. [23] It was the largest tank mass-produced by German forces during the war, and remains among the heaviest mass-produced tanks ever.
The Tiger I tanks of the 506th had a unique 2-digit enumeration system: The battalion staff platoon tanks were numbered '01,' '02,' and '03,' and each company's 14 tigers were simply numbered 1-14. The HQ and separate companies could be identified by the color of the numbers: black for the HQ, white for the 1st company, red for the 2nd, and ...
The Tire Assault Vehicle in action in 1995. The Tire Assault Vehicle (TAV) was a small remote-controlled vehicle created from a scale model kit of the German World War II-era Tiger II heavy tank, used by NASA to test the tires for the Space Shuttle.
At this time the unit's surplus crews began outfitting with the new Tiger II tanks. By August 7 the division left in Normandy had 25 Tigers of which 21 were operational. On August 8, 1944, three of its seven Tigers, committed to a counter-attack near Saint-Aignan-de-Cramesnil , were destroyed by British Sherman Fireflies , and two more were ...
The 509th Heavy Panzer Battalion (German: "schwere Panzerabteilung 509"; abbreviated: "s PzAbt 509") was a German heavy Panzer Abteilung (an independent battalion-sized unit), equipped with heavy tanks, during the Second World War.