What was the name/model of the most powerful German tank?

Question

WW2

Answer 1

The Panzer II was almost as crappy as the Panzer I. It had a weak gun and poor armor.

The King Tiger had impenetrable frontal armor, and a crazy 88mm canon that was accurate to well over a mile.

Yet the Jagdtiger was the titan of WWII and one of the most remarkable pieces of engineering at the time. It was completely impenetrable, all the way around, and counted on a 128mm gun, the most powerful canon in the war, and even had infrared nightvision. The Americans couldn't develop that until the Vietnam war.

Technically the title of most powerful would go to the Jagdtiger, but neither this or the King Tiger numbered over 500. Both were expensive to make and the war was already failing for Germany by the time these were developed.

It was the original Tiger, or Panzer VI, that is awarded with being the most infamous among allied troops. It struck fear into the hearts of even the most battle-hardened Allied troops. It was strong, heavily-armored, and counted with a long 88 gun that was incredibly accurate. Ask any Allied veteran, and they will tell you that the Tiger was the beast of the war. It was only used in the Heavy Tank Batallion that took care of very difficult missions.

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Prototypes and plans don't count at all as an answer to the question. If someone asked what was the best fighter plane in WWII, the answer wouldn't be the jet-engined prototypes that Germany built. What matters is was fought on the battlefield, not what sat in a hanger or in someone's drawing board.

And by the way, "panzer" means tank, I've taken German classes and have lived in Germany and Switzerland.

Answer 2

Panzerkampfwagen VI Ausf. B (Sdkfz 182) otherwise known as the King Tiger with the Henschel turret. Unfortunately for the Germans, only 483 were built.

Blah Blah Blah....And the French tanks only went in reverse. The Polish tanks had four legs and ate hay. The Japanese tanks had to be wound up with a big key every 50 yards. The British tanks looked nice on paper, but paper tanks were all they could mass produce. The Shermans lived up to their namesake, they burned everything inside and out (AKA Tommy cookers). The only relatively flawless tank was made by Russia, but they were too cramped with a state security agent and a picture of Stalin inside each one

Answer 3

The most powerful turreted tank was the Panzerkampfwagen VI Ausf. B. It was known as the King Tiger or Tiger II. It had an 88mm KwK 43 L/71 as the main armament.

The most powerful non-turreted tank was the Jagdtiger. It had a 128mm PaK 44 L/55 as it's main gun. The gun is basically the same size as the 5" guns we have on our destroyers and cruisers.

Answer 4

The largest tank produced by Germany in WWII was the Maus,
designed by Ferdinand Porsche, the most common german tank was the Panzer IV.

The person above stated that panzer translated to tank however the actual translation is armor

Answer 5

There are several answers to this question. One of them would be the the Maus, which weighed 188 tons, but only two were ever built and neither ever saw combat. Another would be the 1000 ton Ratte, which never was built, but it would have carried two 280 mm guns. These guns were only ever used on battleships. The main problem with both was that the ground pressure made them impossible to move, as they would sink into dry ground like it was a swamp.

Answer 6

biggest overall Maus prototype, it had one 122mm(?) and one 20mm cannon, but was tremendously bulky
biggest serial Pz VI modification Koenigtiger or Tiger II
the most viable was the Pz V Panther, its late versions had even the infrared sights for nighttime warfare. /version Uhu - Owl/
Panther design paved the paths of modern armor design well into the 80ies of the 20th century. Agile, fast, well armored, deadly armed.

lingvistics: panzer means armor. tank is british term for armor derived from the coverup story for the first fielded armors, "tanks" of british troops in the WW1. they were reffered to as tanks because of their welded box-like shape resembling standard liguid storage tanks.
thus panzer=am. armor =british tank

Answer 7

king tiger tank HE181
i believe

Answer 8

i think it was the Panzershreck (i think thats what its called)


it took atleast two american tanks to do the job.

im not to sure about, look it up on google or wikipedia.

Answer 9

Panther II I think...no..King Tiger is right...good one Soccer-Kid..

Answer 10

the PANZER

so badass it translates simply as "tank" from German to English. so i heard.