In December 1943 the more common "production" turret, sometimes erroneously called the "Henschel" turret, was simplified with a significantly thicker flat face (which eliminated the shot trap caused by the curved face of the earlier turret), and less-steeply sloped sides, which avoided the need for a bulge for the commander's cupola, and added additional room for ammunition storage. Fifty early turrets were mounted to Henschel hulls and used in action. This turret had a rounded front and steeply sloped sides, with a difficult-to-manufacture curved bulge on the turret's left side to accommodate the commander's cupola. The initial design is often misleadingly called the "Porsche" turret due to the misbelief that it was designed by Porsche for their Tiger II prototype in fact it was the initial Krupp design for both prototypes. Two turret designs were used in production vehicles.
Henschel won the design contract, and all Tiger IIs were produced by the firm. The rough Zimmerit coating is evident, used to prevent magnetic mines from adhering to the tank's armour. The angular front of the "production turret" designed by Krupp (erroneously called "Henschel turret") taken during Operation Panzerfaust in Budapest, 15 October 1944. Porsche's unorthodox designs gathered little favour. Another proposal was to use hydraulic drives Dr. The Porsche suspension components were later used on a few of the later Jagdtiger tank destroyers.
This method of propulsion had been attempted before on the rejected Tiger (P) (which had been rebuilt as Elefant ) and in some US designs and was put into production in the World War I era Saint-Chamond tank and the post-World War I FCM Char 2C. One Porsche version had a gasoline-electric drive (fundamentally identical to a Diesel-electric transmission, only using a gasoline-fueled engine as the prime mover), similar to a gasoline-electric hybrid but without a storage battery two separate drivetrains in parallel, one per side of the tank, each consisting of a hybrid drive train gasoline engine– electric generator–electric motor–drive sprocket. This had six road wheels per side mounted in paired bogies sprung with short longitudinal torsion bars that were integral to the wheel pair this saved internal space and facilitated repairs. The suspension was the same as on the Elefant tank destroyer. The Porsche hull designs included a rear-mounted turret and a mid-mounted engine.
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To simplify maintenance, however, as when the same steel-tired road wheels were used on later Tiger I hulls, the wheels were only overlapping without being interleaved-the full Schachtellaufwerk rubber-rimmed road-wheel system that had been in use on nearly all German half-tracks used the interleaved design, later inherited by the early production versions of the Tiger I and Panther. It had a rear-mounted engine and used nine steel-tired, eighty-centimeter-diameter overlapping road wheels per side with internal springing, mounted on transverse torsion bars, in a similar manner to the original Henschel-designed Tiger I. The Henschel version used a conventional hull design with sloped armour resembling the layout of the Panther tank. The overlapping, non-interleaved steel-rim roadwheel arrangement is visible. Eisenhower walks by an overturned Tiger II.
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Both prototype series used the same turret design from Krupp the main differences were in the hull, transmission, suspension and automotive features. Another design contract followed in 1939, and was given to Porsche. Development ĭevelopment of a heavy tank design had been initiated in 1937 the initial design contract was awarded to Henschel. It was first used in combat by 503rd Heavy Panzer Battalion during the Allied invasion of Normandy on 11 July 1944 on the Eastern Front, the first unit to be outfitted with the Tiger II was the 501st Heavy Panzer Battalion, which by 1 September 1944 listed 25 Tiger IIs operational. The Tiger II was issued to heavy tank battalions of the Army and the Waffen-SS. The chassis was also the basis for the Jagdtiger turretless Jagdpanzer anti-tank vehicle. It was armed with the long barrelled 8.8 cm KwK 43 L/71 anti-tank cannon.
The tank weighed almost 70 tonnes, and was protected by 100 to 185 mm (3.9 to 7.3 in) of armour to the front. The Tiger II was the successor to the Tiger I, combining the latter's thick armour with the armour sloping used on the Panther medium tank. Contemporaneous Allied soldiers usually called it the King Tiger or Royal Tiger. It was also known informally as the Königstiger ( German for Bengal tiger and also, literally, "King Tiger").
The ordnance inventory designation was Sd.Kfz. The final official German designation was Panzerkampfwagen Tiger Ausf. The Tiger II is a German heavy tank of the Second World War.
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