As the Tiger tank developed and produced by the Führer himself, it can be said to be the world's first main battle tank in the true sense.

In order to be able to make this main battle tank really create a generation gap with its opponents, German engineers can be said to have racked their brains.

First of all, this fundamentally new tank uses a number of proven technologies, but on the basis of the existing ones, these technologies are innovated.

When designing this tank, there were many other models of tanks, including the famous British Centurion main battle tank.

You know, the Centurion main battle tank began mass production in 1945, so its technical difficulty is not high. There is nothing to mention about the technology of the Centurion tank, and its strength lies in its design concept - the main battle tank!

The fact that the Centurion tank was still in service with the armies of some European countries in 1981 is a testament to how successful the concept of a tank-led main battle tank has been.

Therefore, the new tank chassis took the existing Leopard tank technology, expanded the chassis of the Leopard tank, and strengthened it with some of the technology used in the Centurion tank.

The chassis of the new tank vehicle with 7 pairs of load-bearing wheels is simply the most reliable universal tracked chassis of this era.

With a single row of load-bearing wheels, large hubs and an avant-garde beltless wheeled design, this tank chassis is closer to the T-72 main battle tank designed by the Soviet Union later.

Of course, the T-72 tank had 6 pairs of load wheels, while the new chassis of the German Tiger tank had 7 pairs of load wheels.

The low profile and the elimination of the course machine gun from the Leopard tank give this chassis a strong futuristic tank design style.

All the wheels are glued, which reduces wear and tear and makes the tank itself a smoother ride.

When it comes to the use of rubber, we have to talk about Atlantic shipping, which is now the end of the war. The absence of a war between the United States and Germany made Atlantic shipping the busiest shipping route in the world at present.

Germany is free to purchase rubber without restrictions from the United States, so there is a large amount of rubber transported from South America to Europe, and the total weight is staggering.

The U.S. Navy simply did not have the capital to intercept, so they could only watch Germany make up for the war attrition and, at the national level, hoard more rubber.

In addition, the US top brass even deliberately sold some copper and other rare metals to Germany to appease the German top brass and delay the implementation of Germany's strategic actions against the United States as much as possible.

Therefore, Germany, which once lacked rubber, is now no longer short of rubber resources. Perhaps after the declaration of war on the United States, Atlantic shipping was blocked, and Germany was worried about the consumption of rubber again.

Because of this, the current German tank design adopts normal design ideas. After abandoning the double row of load-bearing wheels, the German tank design was finally on the right track.

Rolls-Royce Engines worked with the German Maybach engine design team to develop a new diesel engine with 710 horsepower, which finally gave Germany a new tank power.

This is not a gasoline engine that is heavily equipped on the Leopard tank, but a modified and upgraded version of the diesel engine that has already been tried on the improved version of the Leopard tank.

The name of the new engine is MR-HLD230 - which is the first letter of the two companies, followed by the abbreviation of the German high-performance diesel engine, and the 230 means that the engine displacement is 23 liters.

The use of diesel engines on tanks, starting with Japan and the Soviet Union, later became the mainstream of the world and became the preferred power system for most tanks.

Diesel engines have a lot of torque, and they do work well on heavy vehicles – such as heavy trucks, as well as tanks and other weapons.

The Maybach engine design team, which incorporated Rolls-Royce technology, has succeeded in designing a powerful engine that will go down in history.

With the support of this engine, although the Tiger tank weighs more than 45 tons, its off-road maneuverability is still very strong.

The price of such a powerful mobility is not without - the Tiger tank is also like the Tiger in terms of fuel consumption, and the design combat radius of this tank is only about 190 kilometers.

Although this data is much better than the real Tiger tank in history, this combat radius is still depressing.

Therefore, after a series of discussions, Germany imitated the construction principle of the auxiliary fuel tank of the fighter and installed two fuel tanks that could be thrown away at the back of this tank.

This all-new design is based on the classic design of the T-34 tank of the rival Soviets, and it is also a testament to the new design concept of the German designer.

The all-new tank has done a good job on the chassis, and it also gives this new tank the ability to maneuver off-road far beyond that of this era.

And the turret, which concentrates a lot of new black technology, has also become the sharpest fangs of the Tiger tank - its appearance marks the advent of a new generation of main battle tanks.

The concept of the main battle tank is actually a general-purpose tank concept born in the future after a lot of technological advances.

After the advent of composite armor, the protection capacity of the tank was greatly improved, so the tank could use a lighter dead weight to reach the protection level of a heavy tank.

Therefore, the main battle tank came into being, with firepower comparable to heavy tanks, as well as strong mobility, completely replaced heavy tanks, and became the absolute main force in the modern tank family.

The new turret also uses a similar design concept to composite armor, but the concept is primitive - the Tiger has a turret made of some other materials on the outside, and an outer steel plate hangs from the outermost layer.

These external steel plates play a part of the role of composite armor, which can improve part of the level of protection.

The protective design similar to composite armor has increased the thickness of the armor protection of the Tiger tank from 110 mm to about 150 mm.

At this point in time in 1941, the level of protection of 150 mm thick steel plates on the front of the Tiger tank was already a perfect protection that could not be penetrated head-on.

The sides of the turret of the Tiger tank, as well as the rear of the turret, are designed with the same storage compartments as the Leopard tank, which on the one hand counterweight the turret and on the other hand, it also increases the loading capacity of the tank.

The crew members welcomed the design, as they could fill the storage compartments with a variety of items to improve the defense of the sides and rear of the tank.

Slightly different from the Leopard, the Tiger has some attachment points on the hull and turret.