I heard it was one of the strongest tank with very thick armor. Is the armor really strong or it easily destroyable? If battled against an M1 Abrams, who would win?
to Jaime, I was thinking about the material to make that tank because maybe the material to make that tank became scarce, but thanks for answering
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Which Tiger tank? There were two and they were dramatically different from each other.
In late 1942 when the original Tiger I made its combat debut outside of Leningrad it featured a high-velocity 8.8 cm (88 mm) gun at a time when most German tanks had either a 5.0 cm HV gun or a 7.5 cm low-velocity howitzer and the best Soviet tanks had a 76.2 mm medium velocity gun. So for its time it was quite powerfully armed. It also had frontal armor 100 mm thick, which while quite pathetic by modern standards was much stronger than the 30 to 50 mm thick armor of other German tanks. It was for all intents and purposes immune to the typical tank and anti-tank guns of the time. On the downside the Tiger I was hugely expensive and manpower intensive to produce (the German's could build 3 standard Panzer III or IV medium tanks for what it took to make 1 Tiger), very slow, hugely unreliable and very difficult to transport to the front. Thus only small numbers were built and they were only issued to specialized units. By 1944 the Tiger I was no longer all that and the allies had many ways of dealing with it.
The Tiger II was introduced to replace the Tiger I in 1944 to keep ahead of allied advancements and had much thicker armor (150 mm) that was also sloped instead of vertical to increase its effective thickness even more. It also had a much more powerful 8.8 cm gun. But it was even heavier, slower, difficult and expensive to produce and less reliable so very few were made. Total Tiger I and II production for the entire war was less than 2 months worth of production of the Soviet T-34.
Compared to modern tanks a Tiger (either one) is complete garbage and a total deathtrap.
Anonymous
Back during WW2 it could take out any tank the allies had. The Sherman tank the USA had always got destroyed. But with modern technology the M1 Abrams would destroy the Tiger Tank easily. But if you think about if the Tiger Tank was that destructive back then imagine of the Germans still had it and upgraded it lol would of raped
The Questioner
Now a days the tiger would be destroyed easily by the abrams but back then tank crews were ordered not to ever engage one and to call in back up. Sometimes groups of tanks would attack but it was mostly dealt with by the army air corps.
Anonymous
One M1 Abrams could destroy every Tiger that came at it as long as it had ammo. The tiger was excellent for its time. Shells would bounce at any other then (relatively) close range from the weaker allied tanks.
Anonymous
dude... if it was stronger, we would be using it... the M1 is a MODERN tank with classified armor. Tiger is just steel. who do you think? use your brain for once...