"This guy is really big! Brother, this guy seems to be bigger than our Soviet-style main battle tank!"

Zhang Nan stood in front of him with a large number of World War II super tanks, and Charlize Theron, who was talking beside him, was 1.77 meters tall barefoot, and he looked small and delicate when standing next to the huge King Tiger tank.

Zhang Nan said "um" and said, "It's going to be bigger, and it's much heavier." ”

As he spoke, he carefully looked at the stout turrets of these two heavy tanks, and said: "This should be the model of the Henschel turret used in the later stage, and the total combat weight is nearly 70 tons, not to mention our T80 and T72, this guy is heavier than the M1A2 that the US military just equipped last year." ”

As for feeling big, that's really big!

When the 88mm tank gun of the King Tiger tank moves forward, the whole vehicle reaches an astonishing length of nearly 10 meters3, the body length is 7 meters3, the width can be 3 meters75, and the height is 3.09 meters!

In comparison, the M1A2 gun has a forward length of 9 meters 77, a width of 3 meters 66 and a height of 2 meters 44. As for the Soviet-style T-80 main battle tank, the length of the gun is 9.9 meters forward, the width of the vehicle is 3.40 meters, and the height is only 2.2 meters.

Compared with the contemporaries, the famous Stalin-2 heavy tank, with a total combat weight of 45 tons, had a gun length of about 9.6 meters, a width of 3 meters 12 meters, and a height of 2.71 meters.

Among the heavy tanks of heavy tanks, Germany made such a giant during World War II, although the armor protection performance is not comparable to that of modern main battle tanks, but half a century ago, it was a super steel fortress that was difficult to shake.

As long as you don't run a long way to lay yourself down, in a defensive war, a super heavy tank built at any cost is definitely an opponent's nightmare if you use all mature technology and immature advanced technology like the King Tiger tank!

Not only was it super-heavy armor, but the extremely sharp and powerful 71 times caliber 88 mm tank gun was even more of a headache, and at normal engagement distances, perhaps only the frontal armor of the Stalin 3 tank, which had appeared at the very end of the war, could withstand it.

Charlize Theron looked around the tank, Zhang Nan kicked the tank's wide tracks, and said: "If I were a tank commander during World War II and wanted to drive a head-to-head battle with an enemy tank, I would choose the invincible Tiger King!"

If I were an armored battalion commander and I wanted to command an armored battalion to participate in a tank encounter, I would choose a Leopard tank that is both offensive and defensive;

If I were a field marshal who needed to lead an armored group to break through enemy lines, drive straight in, and conquer cities until I won the entire war, I would choose the T-34!

This Tiger King was really drowned by the T34 and Stalin tanks, and at that time, except for the Stalin Type 3, which almost didn't catch up with the war, took the Tiger King to fight alone, and the other tanks were all dumbfounded.

Only... Forget who said this, Marshal Prenyakov?

Not right, Zhukov?

Rokossovsky?"

Joseph would take people to look at the half-track transporters behind him, and if he didn't hear what the boss said, it was probably difficult to answer whether the marshals of the Soviet Union had said this, and no one else could answer his questions.

Zhang Nan didn't continue to dwell on this question, but asked Mark behind him again: "I heard that you went to the museum to study those old equipment if you have nothing to do, I remember that there are less than ten Tiger Kings left so far, right?"

The rarer the collection, the more valuable it is.

Giant Mark looks like an ancient beast, but in fact, he is quite kind in nature, and likes to fiddle with some antique weapons in his spare time, and he and his younger brother are also volunteer maintainers of Zhang Nan's private military equipment museum.

Born in a car repair shop, the technology is not bad, and the museum can use it.

Hearing the boss's question, Mark said, "There are still eight in each museum, boss."

There is a prototype car in the Bairington Tank Museum in England, which is equipped with a Porsche turret, but the car is made of ordinary mild steel, and it is a pure appearance.

There's also a King Tiger with a Henschel turret in that museum, and like the two here, there's a useless cement anti-magnetic coating on it..."

It is said that in order to deal with the steel torrent of the Soviet Red Army, Germany, which had insufficient anti-tank strength in the later stage of the war, developed, produced and equipped many infantry anti-tank weapons, such as "Iron Fist" and magnetic anti-tank grenades.

Because of this magnetic grenade, the Germans applied anti-magnetic coatings to many of their precious King Tiger tanks with amazing combat performance.

As a result...

Wishful thinking!

Neither the Allies in the west nor the Red Army in the east used this type of individual magnetic anti-tank weapon.

The attacker, also anti-tank with grenades?

The T34 and M4 are coming, who still uses anti-tank grenades.

But to be honest, this camouflage cement coating, which is almost useless, only adds weight to death, and adds pressure to the already overwhelmed walking system, is quite beautiful, and the Tiger King has it, aiming at it even more powerful.

This Mark Callaway said: "The only Tiger King in the world that can still be driven before is in the Somuel Tank Museum in France, and the Henschel turret is also installed, but I don't think it will be the only one in the world soon, these two can be driven after thorough maintenance."

The fourth King Tiger is in the Kubinka Museum in Russia, and the fifth is in the Panzer Museum in Munster, Germany, which was transported back to Germany from northern France in the 60s.

In Germany, the exterior of the car was okay, but the tank gun had been repaired, and the interior of the car was unrecognizable.

In September '44, the King Tiger ran out of fuel when it retreated from northern France, and the tank crew had to blow up the tank gun and detonate the shells in the car, using the tank as a roadblock.

The sixth is at the Nagolou Museum in Belgium, where the engine and gearbox are said to be in good condition, but the Belgians have always kept it on display in the open air.

The seventh was unlucky, at the Armored Cavalry Museum at Fort Benning, Georgia, which turned out to be at the Aberdeen Proving Ground. In order to facilitate teaching, in the 40s, the people at the Aberdeen Proving Ground actually cut off the left part of the tank.

Passed.

The eighth car is in the tank museum in Thun, Switzerland, and I don't know how this tiger king ended up in the hands of those guys who only know how to make war money, and it is said that the car still has restoration value.

In addition to these eight, there was also a Tiger King that was badly bombed under the ground on the side of a road in France, and the barrel was gone, as if the war had just ended, and the locals couldn't drag the Tiger King who fell into a big puddle when they were building the road, so they simply buried it, revealing a little turret hatch.

Now, decades later, there is no trace on the surface. I heard that the civil society over there is planning to dig up that guy, but I don't know if it's true or not.

The Germans built a total of 489 King Tigers, of which only 9 are known to be outside, and the rest have been destroyed or destroyed in the war, missing, and at most some parts or incomplete and damaged steel shells can be found. ”