Many tanks were in operation during WW11. Was the Tiger mk 1 the best or was it too unserviceable in the field to be considered?
2007-08-12 22:33:14 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Military
world war eleven has not appeared yet
in the wwII the tigers served frequently in the heavy armor battalions, while koenigtigers were limited due to the production problems. anyway I personally consider the Panther Pz V to be the best german /if not overall/ armor of the WW2. panther had little bit inferior armament in comparison to the Tiger, but there were more Panthers and they were faster and deadlier in the offensive, unlike static Pz VI tiger/ and especially koenigtiger variant.
panzer means tank or armor
Panther means panther
Panther was panzer mark 5, Pz V
2007-08-13 07:06:29 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Panzer, literally translated actually means ARMOR, not panther. Plus, the German Tiger and Panther tanks, while good gun platforms and well armored, had crappy engines and fuel systems.
A better tank, possibly the best of the war, was the Joseph Stalin (Iosif Stalin) IS-2 model 1944 (more numerous, but with some quality control issues with the armor that made them a little more vunerable), or the IS-3, of which only 350 were produced during the war. Both of these carried a 122mm cannon, that could penetrate the German Panther from front to back, and which could also penetrate the frontal armor of the Tiger II.
The US M-4 Sherman was a stopgap piece of s***. It's gun was too small and it's armor was too thin. The only thing it had going for it was speed and manuverability, and the fact that we made so d*** many. It wasn't until the production of the M-26 Pershing that the US created a decent tank, and we never got very many over to Europe.
2007-08-12 23:31:28 · answer #2 · answered by joby10095 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the King Tiger was the best produced in WWII, thankfully for us, only 481 units were produced. Whitmann's lone Tiger stopped an entire Canadian division outside of Caen. The prolific T-34 was the tank that won the war in the East..
2007-08-13 01:07:32 · answer #3 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Brussels sprouts, however inedible you may consider them, are not nearly strong enough to damage tank treads. They would be smashed into paste. Walnuts aren't strong enough, either. You'd need something more like a hardened steel pellet, and even then, it might just bent the tread slightly without disabling it. What you really want to do is put explosives on the tread, snapping it and severely or completely reducing the tank's mobility. "Vorsprung durch Technik" is Audi's motto.
2016-04-01 08:31:29 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Acually the German Tiger tank was one of the worst to maintain and it was too complicated to be massed produced. The German Panther tank was a better all around tank. Acually the best tank probably of WWII was the soviet tank I think it was the t-34. Due to its design and speed flollowed closley by the Sherman Tank.
2007-08-12 22:44:02 · answer #5 · answered by firetdriver_99 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
German tanks were solid and nothing could compare to their firepower but they could not keep up with Western industry. With one finely tuned Panzer there were 4-5 Shermans that were easy to repair and were quick to be replaced.
2007-08-13 01:05:40 · answer #6 · answered by Animal 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Panzer means Panther.
99 has it right. If the Germans could keep their tanks in the field, and mass produce them better, such as the Sherman and T-34, the war could have been different.
2007-08-12 22:46:06 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
I always thought that it was the Panzer
2007-08-12 22:44:05 · answer #8 · answered by !~"Fish On"~! 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Apparently not good enough huh?
2007-08-13 01:11:08 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋