The Superior King Tiger

From: Chad Irby
Date: 5/7/2004 6:36 PM Central Daylight Time
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In article ,
(robert arndt) wrote:

http://www.achtungpanzer.com/pz5.htm

Better than any mass-produced piece-of-**** Sherman (except the
Firefly British conversion).

...as long as you didn't mind that it had to pretty much sit there and
not go very far, due to high ground pressure and very high fuel
consumption (a King Tiger in mud became a landmark). Add in the very
high maintenance problems, and you had a really tough, sorta-mobile
fortress. The Allies did the obvious and ran around the KTs, destroying
their support structure, then captured and destroyed a lot of them after
they ran out of gas.

Definitely follows on the German habit in WWII of coming up with a
really cool design that turned out to be a problem to build and support.

--
cirby at cfl.rr.com


Did you happen to notice the article teuton offered as proof of what a wonder
weapon King Tiger was actually describes what a flop it really was?

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired