The Pzkpfw VI Ausf B Tiger II, at just over 70 tons, was a
massive and formidable fighting machine. Designed to dominate
the battlefield, it did that successfully provided it was deployed
so that its hard-hitting 8.8cm Kwk 43/71 gun could bring its
devastating power to bear while keeping its adversaries out of
reach.
It was the heaviest, best-protected, most powerfully armed tank
of WW II and its armour and firepower would measure up well to
main battle tank standards of today.
Known also as the Konigstiger, or to the Allies as the “Royal
Tiger”, it inherited, by merit of its very name, the fearsome
reputation already established by the Tiger I, with the added
factor of being known to be bigger, better armed and more impregnably
armoured.
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