Hilary Doyle PanzerTalks - The Tiger II - Part 2

[@markjones3985]

Mr. Doyle is an INTERNATIONAL treasure. No others like him.

[@65bravo]

.... ever heard of a fellow named Spielberger ?

[@markjones3985]

@@65bravo Never heard of “Speilberger”. I do know of Steven Spielberg. He is a great movie director, hardly an expert on WW2 GERMAN MILITARY TANKS & VEHICLES.

[@65bravo]

Walter J. Spielberger was the author of many books (Motorbuch Verlag) focusing on the German WW2 Panzers. His research and publications begann in the early 1970 'ties, to which Mr. Doyle later contributed scale drawings. Mr. Jentz assisted/contributed later to "upgrade" some existing Spielberger books and later published some of his own research. Spielberger produced most of the research and findings Mr. Doyle is presenting in this video. If ... then Mr. Spiegberger's work is actually the "INTERANTIONAL treasure" you might be describing.@@markjones3985

[@drmarkintexas-400]

Thank you for sharing I hope that Mr Doyle has several young proteges who are learning this vast amount of information and detail, so it can can live on. 🎖️🤗🏆🙏

[@russellnixon9981]

Always informative and entertaining listening to Mr Doyal, the depth of his historical knowledge on this subject is outstanding.

[@MGB-learning]

Outstanding video!

[@petergarofolo9385]

Excellent video. Thank you 👍 👍

[@Anlushac11]

Another advantage of the two piece barrel was that the gun could be made to use a liner. When the barrel wore out you only had to replace the liner and not the whole gun.

[@AKUJIVALDO]

Liner...?

[@luvr381]

I would think the curved front of the turret also presented serious shot trap too, like on the Panther.

[@jp-um2fr]

Modern AP rounds will still penetrate at anything greater tan 11 Deg. I doubt very much that the slope of this tank would have deflected an AP. The rifled barrel of the Chieftain, Challenger 1 and 2 used the L11A5 which was far more accurate than the smooth bore now used in any cross wind. However, it's life firing AP was 100 rounds. Money over effectiveness wins again.

[@arnepietruszewski9255]

There is a third reason using two angled plates of armor, weight saving. I am sure those two plates are a lot lighter than the front of a tiger 1 build with the same thickness and easier to manufacture.

[@HerbertAckermans]

Not really, sloping armour uses MORE armourplate in the same vertical distance compared to a straight (90 degree) plate of similar thickness, but still even using less thickness to get the same thickness in sloping armour, the plate still is longer.

[@ArnoSchmidt70]

Someone should invite the welders from the Australian Tank museum. The would complete the Tiger II in no time.

[@johnlant1730]

I would be curious to ask Mr Doyle if there was ever any investigation to install the 88 on a Panther.

[@Anlushac11]

Only using the Schmalturm but it would have required a larger turret ring which the Germans did not want to do because the Schmalturm Panthers with 88 would be incompatible with the older Panthers. The Schmalturm intended for production would have used the 75mm L/70 KwK 44.

[@garrisonnichols807]

Such a beast of a tank but I get the feeling it was overkill. If the Panzer 4 Panther and Tiger 1 were getting the job done why even bother building this?

[@smartiepancake]

By this time the shooting war was lost, the Germans created this tank to win the KZbin war. Ultimately, by that standard, the Germans seem to have won ww2 :-)

[@BrianMarcus-nz7cs]

Why do I find this disgusting price of worthless scrap so fknn fascinatingly beautiful , am I mad 😊

[@3halfshadows]

It was designed since the 30s for a specific purpose. By the end of the war they wanted any tank they could get, even if the role is was designed for no longer really existed. It was also politically expedient to create heavy tanks.