In early 1942, a request was made by the Army General Staff to mount a 128 mm gun on a self-propelled armored chassis. German tank destroyers of World War II used fixed casemates instead of fully rotatable turrets to significantly reduce the cost, weight, and materials necessary for mounting large-caliber guns.Ī wooden mockup of the Jagdtiger presented to Adolf Hitler on 20 October 1943, seen here behind the Italian medium tank Carro Armato P 26/40 With the success of the StuG III, Marder I, Marder II, and Marder III Panzerjäger, the military leadership of Nazi Germany decided to use the chassis of existing armored fighting vehicles as the basis for self-propelled guns (serving as assault guns and tank destroyers).
Due to an excessive weight and an underpowered drivetrain system, the Jagdtiger was plagued with mobility and mechanical problems. Although 150 were ordered, only around 80 were produced. It saw brief service in small numbers from late 1944 until the end of the war on both the Western and Eastern Front. it was armed with a 12.8 cm Pak 44 L/55 main gun which could out-range and defeat any AFV fielded by the Allied forces. The 72-tonne Jagdtiger was the heaviest armored fighting vehicle (AFV) used operationally by any nation in WWII and the heaviest combat vehicle of any type to be produced during the conflict. Its ordnance inventory designation was Sd.Kfz.
It was built upon the slightly lengthened chassis of a Tiger II.
B ) is a German casemate-type heavy tank destroyer ( Jagdpanzer) of World War II. The Jagdtiger ("Hunting Tiger" officially designated Panzerjäger Tiger Ausf.
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