I think they didn't have to make them coz they have Panthers already.
2006-12-05 15:31:49 · 10 answers · asked by wonanwo 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
Some bizzare answers as usual.....
The reality is that the second world war was the great tank war, particularly in the Western desert between the British 8th Army and Rommels Arfika Korps, and then on a much larger scale between the Germans and the Russians on the eastern front where you had mammoth battles like Kursk.
This started an arms race in terms of who could build the biggest and most heavilly armoured tanks in the belief that they would dominate the battlefield.
The Panther, which was an excellent tank was produced in response to the Russian T34 which had proven to be an awesome tank in battle, cheap, fast and well balanced between armour and firepower.
The next generation of Russian tanks however were bigger, heavier armoured, and more heavilly armed and the three generations of Tigers (Tiger, King Tiger, Royal Tiger) were produced to counter those, not least as a way of putting the excellent 88mm anti aircraft gun into a tank turret.
Tigers were very good tanks and certainly better than anything the British or Americans fielded in the west until right at the end of the war when the new generation of tanks arrived.
Todays main battle tanks are direct decendents of the culmination of that race to build the best all round heavy tank.
My father worked on a captured Tiger and although being a lifelong advocate of the Rolls Royce Merlin Engine, which he adapted to become the first Centurian Tank engine, he reckoned that the Maybach engine in the Tiger was second to none.
2006-12-05 19:02:16 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Panther was basically an upgrade of the Tiger unit and was more of an evolution rather than a total redesign. The Tiger was a powerful and deadly piece of hardware but in the military stagnation = death and defeat. The answer is constant change, upgrades and improvments. Do you wonder why the U.S. built the F18 and doesn't fly the Corsair anymore? We had PLENTY after WWII!
2006-12-05 23:39:11 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The German High Command thought it was a good idea at the time. None of the combatants had cought-on, yet, that Air Power was what would ultimately win the war. Some of us are just thankful that Hitler didn't see the need to concentrate on production of the jet fighter planes Hermann
Goering's German Air Force introduced toward the end of WWII.
2006-12-05 23:45:22 · answer #3 · answered by Beejee 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I watched a show on the History Channel & it rated the Tiger tank as the #1 tank ever. They said it was strong, accurate, fast & inexpensive to produce. They said the easy to produce made it the best of the top 10.
It was a cool show - my husband & I really enjoyed it. The cost & slowness to produce put our current tanks at #4.
2006-12-05 23:42:59 · answer #4 · answered by Wolfpacker 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because it was the mindset of the Higher up germans, no doubt that tigers were powerful well built and reliable but they couldnt make enough of them, they should have kept to Panzer 4s and Panthers
2006-12-05 23:34:37 · answer #5 · answered by Kenny S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
tigers were made 1930's panthers made in 1941, so they had left over tiger tanks. alot of them. simple.
2006-12-05 23:36:30 · answer #6 · answered by jared l 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they were trying to build a artillery vehicle that would be easy and cheap to build, and they wanted to experiment with new technology
2006-12-05 23:34:16 · answer #7 · answered by Shay D 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe increased armor.
2006-12-05 23:34:33 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Basically, they just wanted to blow the crap out of anyone who crossed their path.
2006-12-05 23:35:33 · answer #9 · answered by Bestie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They were better
2006-12-06 02:50:39 · answer #10 · answered by Kostya G 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋