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The Jagdtiger self-propelled anti-tank gun was a type of anti-tank self-propelled artillery equipped by Germany during World War II. It was in service from late 1944 to the end of the war. It was used in battles on the Eastern and Western Fronts. At the same time, the Jagdtiger self-propelled anti-tank gun The gun was also the heaviest armored fighting vehicle put into service during World War II.
Historically, with the success of the StuG III as an anti-tank self-propelled artillery, the military leadership of Nazi Germany decided to use the chassis of existing armored combat vehicles as the chassis of an anti-tank self-propelled artillery. The Jagdtiger uses a fixed turret structure, so that compared to a rotatable turret structure using the same chassis, the Jagdtiger can be equipped with a larger-caliber artillery. The fixed turret structure can also reduce the manufacturing cycle and cost because of the complexity required to assemble a fixed turret. There will be fewer mechanical mechanisms.
In early 1942, the High Command of the Wehrmacht issued a request to equip a self-propelled armored chassis with a 128mm caliber artillery. On May 18, 1942, the Führer Hitler requested that the 128mm artillery should be prioritized for anti-tank combat rather than supporting infantry. The shooting test showed that the 128mm caliber artillery has a good shooting hit rate. At the same time, relatively smaller caliber 88mm and 105mm caliber artillery were also used for testing.
In 1943, the headquarters decided to use a 128mm caliber gun to match the Panther or Tiger tank chassis. However, the results of the wooden model proved that the Panther tank chassis was not suitable. On October 20, 1943, another wooden model was assembled on the chassis of a King Tiger tank and in East Prussia. Presented in front of the head of state. Subsequently, two prototypes were designed, one with a Porsche suspension equipped with eight road wheels, and the other with a Henschel suspension equipped with nine staggered road wheels. February 1944. Products using the King Tiger chassis were initially named the Cheetah VI when they left the factory, and later were named the Jaguar. The official Wehrmacht equipment number of the Jagdtiger anti-tank destroyer is sd.kfz.186.
Just like the Panther anti-tank destroyer is derived from the Panther tank, the design of the Jagdtiger is also derived from the tank. The Jagdtiger has an elongated King Tiger chassis attached to a square fixed turret. The effect of this configuration is to equip the Jagdtiger with heavy protective armor and a 128mmpak44l55 gun that can penetrate any tank during World War II.
The thickness of the frontal protective armor of the Hunter Tiger's turret reaches 250mm, and the thickness of the frontal armor of the car body also reaches 150mm. The firing range of the main gun is only 10 degrees, which makes the Jagdtiger have to rotate the body to aim at the target when necessary.
Due to the exaggerated weight of the vehicle and the obviously insufficient horsepower of the engine. The Hunting Tiger also had many mechanical and technical problems. While performing combat missions, the Jagdtiger often broke down. According to known records, no Allied artillery can penetrate the Jagdtiger's frontal armor. In fact, the vast majority of hunting tigers are abandoned due to mechanical failure and lack of fuel. And not due to attacks from the enemy.
On the other hand, the 128mmpak44l55 gun equipped by the Hunter Tiger was originally equipped for the heaviest Maus tank in history. However, many people know that even after the war, none of the Maus can be put into the battlefield. Not even a physical tank has ever been released
Germany in this era, if Yan Guang had not appeared, might have continued to develop along its original historical trajectory.
The defeat in the First World War and the rise after the defeat. World War II swept across Europe and advanced all the way to Moscow. It was then pushed back to Berlin by the Russians, and ultimately ended with Hitler's suicide.
But it was precisely because of the appearance of Yan Guang. This caused some changes in German history.
For example, Germany’s biggest enemy, Russia, is not as strong as it has been historically.
For example, due to the stimulation of Yan Guang, many new things appeared earlier than the original history.
For example, Tiger pose, Tiger King, Tiger Hunting
The Tiger, King Tiger and Jagdtiger were born because during the Sino-German exchange period, the new tanks equipped by China stimulated Germany, especially Hitler.
Hitler was a headstrong person, and coupled with his own interest in tanks, he simply could not tolerate other countries being better than Germany in tanks.
So during the period when Hitler was in power, new types of tanks were manufactured.
Originally, for the Germans, perhaps the heaviest tanks in 1942 were Tigers, King Tigers, etc. However, due to the zt40 and zt41 tanks that were exposed on the Asian battlefield, they were specially used to deal with their King Tigers. and Hunting Tiger also appeared.
Especially tiger hunting
Although the hunting tiger's 128mm gun has a magnification of only 55, it can still relatively easily penetrate the ZT41's frontal armor of up to 200 mm.
On the other hand, although the zt41 is equipped with a 105mml68 gun, even when using tungsten core bullets, it is not easy to penetrate the 250mm frontal armor of the Hunter Tiger.Love…
Fortunately, although the Germans have produced tanks like the Jagdtiger and King Tiger, the time is still short after all, and the output has not been able to increase. In addition, although after communicating with Chinese engineers, German engineers paid more attention to simplification issues than usual, making the production cost and working hours of the tank much higher than that of the same type of tank in history, but the reliability is still There are big problems.
In addition, they had to come from distant battlefields, and many tanks and anti-tank vehicles had to stay in place due to breakdowns. Therefore, there were not many German tanks arriving on the battlefield, and a considerable number of them Just a tank like the Panther
As for why the National Defense Force is not equipped with self-propelled anti-tank artillery like the Jagdtiger?
After having a large air force and army, the National Defense Forces are more inclined to take the initiative to attack. Therefore, although the General Armament Department has also developed several anti-tank assault vehicles with reasonably good performance, in the end they were not taken seriously by the army.
Compared with those anti-tank assault vehicles. The army still prefers tanks like zt40 and zt41.
As for how to deal with the opponent's tanks? In the eyes of the army generals, as long as one's own tanks are always stronger than the other's, this will naturally not be a problem.
It is now obvious that China’s armored force technology is significantly stronger than that of other countries in the world. Even tank powers like Germany or Russia need to succumb to China
In this case, there is naturally no need to develop tank destroyers whose defense is obviously stronger than offense.
The emergence of tank destroyers also has its reasons.
During World War II, the development of tanks and armored vehicles advanced by leaps and bounds. The weight of tanks increased rapidly from about 10 tons before World War II to 30 tons, and some heavy tanks reached 40 tons, 50 tons or even more than 60 tons. The caliber of artillery has also been rapidly upgraded from the mainstream 37mm before World War II to 75mm, 76mm, 85mm, 88mm, 122mm, etc. The protection and firepower of tanks have been greatly improved. Thus. A sharp question arises. To deal with the increasingly difficult-to-penetrate armor of enemy tanks, more powerful artillery is needed. The armor thickness of enemy tanks will also increase and become thicker, which also places higher requirements on the power of artillery.
"If there is too much water, add noodles. If there is too much noodles, add water." The total weight of the tank rises rapidly, almost exceeding the limit of what the power system can withstand, thus affecting the tank's maneuverability. Armored forces in many countries are trying to solve such a problem. Facing increasingly powerful opponents, how to make armored vehicles overwhelm the opponents in terms of firepower as quickly as possible. And the armored vehicle will not be overweight due to the increase in firepower.
In order to solve this problem, tank and armored vehicle designers in various countries at that time racked their brains. Although some designers know that this is a technical bottleneck, they still try to make a fool of themselves and blindly increase the thickness of the armor and the power of the artillery. As a result, a heavy tank similar to the "King Tiger" was designed with superior firepower and protection but extremely weak maneuverability. The extreme end of this reckless path is the crazy "Rat" super-heavy tank. How to send this 180-ton big guy to the front line is a headache - but don't worry too much, because the front line will automatically move towards it).
? Proven by practice. Before there is a major breakthrough in the technical level, rushing in and doing nothing is by no means a good way to solve the problem. Other designers are more flexible. Their idea is to do everything possible to install large-caliber artillery on a movable chassis and take on the task of destroying the enemy's advanced tanks before their own more powerful tanks come out. So a new type of tank came out, which was the tank destroyer.
During World War II, most of the tank destroyers in various countries were modified from existing tank chassis. Most of them adopted a turret-less design to install more powerful artillery, specifically used to hunt enemy tanks. This kind of "unexpected weapon" idea was very popular at one time. However, with the emergence and development of main battle tanks after the war, the mainstream of armored combat vehicle design has returned to the path of pursuing the balanced development of firepower, mobility and armor protection. The development of tank destroyers is closely related to the booming development of main battle tanks. In comparison, it is like an ugly duckling that has been left aside, so that it has been forgotten and ignored by people for a long time.
This is why Yan Guangming knew that tank destroyers were extremely brilliant during World War II, but after the army generals abandoned this equipment, he did not insist too much.
At this time, the National Defense Forces have heavy tanks such as the ZT41 tank, and medium-sized ZT40 tanks with higher mobility. Coupled with strong air support, the National Defense Force is currently on the offensive side, and there is indeed no need for so-called tank destroyers. …
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“No matter what, kill them first!!!”
Looking at the number of the other party, it seems that the number is about the same as my own, although there are a few of my own.Li Mo was surprised when his tank was destroyed. But after calming down for a while, Li Mo gave the order.
Although Li Mo's subordinates were surprised by the appearance of Tiger King and Hunter Tiger, after hearing Li Mo's order, they launched an attack on the Germans without hesitation.
“Bang!!!”
Although they didn’t know the performance of the tanks on the opposite side, looking at the appearance of the King Tiger and the Hunter Tiger, the tank crews in the tanks also knew that the opponents on the opposite side were definitely not fish belly, so the first shot fired was a tungsten-core bullet.
Unlike Germany, which is barren, China is a major tungsten-producing country. Although this name was somewhat undeserved in later generations, at least it was still the case in this era. Therefore, the tank troops were equipped with a considerable number of tungsten core bullets, enough to make the German tank soldiers drool
at this time. Coupled with the 105mml68 gun of the zt41, even the thickest frontal armor of the King Tiger tank can be guaranteed to penetrate under most circumstances at a distance of 2,000 meters
In fact, not only the zt41, but also the zt40 can penetrate the frontal armor of the King Tiger most of the time. After all, the 85mm gun equipped with the zt40 also has a diameter of 71. Although the 85mm gun is 3mm smaller in caliber than the 88mm gun equipped by King Tiger, when paired with tungsten core bullets, the 85mm gun is more powerful than the 88mm gun
“Boom!!!”
After a King Tiger was penetrated. Soon the King Tiger exploded.
On the other hand, the fastest Leopard and ZT40 were the first to collide.
Seriously speaking, the Leopard is probably in the same level of tank as the ZT40, at least the weight of the two is about the same. Plus about the same armor thickness. If there is any point where the ZT40 is better than the Leopard, it is probably that the ZT40 uses an arrow-shaped turret, which has better protection than the Leopard.
On the other hand, in terms of maneuverability, the zt40 is also much better than the Leopard. It can even reach a speed of 55 kilometers per hour. At the same time, the 85mm gun equipped on the ZT40 is more powerful than the Panther's 75mm gun, and is even powerful enough to penetrate the Tiger and King Tiger within a distance of 2,000 meters.
But if it is a competition between two medium tanks, then there is nothing
Because of the thickness of both turrets. Almost all are 120 mm, regardless of whether it is the Panther's 75mml71 gun. It is still the 85mml71 gun of the ZT40. It is too easy to penetrate the opponent.
So whether it is possible to win. The most important thing is which side fires first and which side hits first
At the same time, the zt41 heavy tank under Li Mo also began to try to attack the hunting tiger that had been hiding at the back.
But at a distance of more than 2,000 meters, even with a tungsten core bullet, it is very difficult to penetrate the frontal armor of the Hunter Tiger.
As for targeting weaknesses or something? This is a battlefield, not a game. How can you aim so accurately?
What’s more, even in the game, whether you can hit is one thing, whether you can hit accurately is also a problem, not to mention that the general firefight distance in the game is still three to five hundred meters, or even one or two hundred meters
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After the exchange of fire between the two sides, the fighting became very fierce, and both sides soon suffered considerable losses.
However, during the battle, although Li Mo's zt40 and zt41 were able to suppress the opponent's leopard, tiger and king tiger to some extent, they were quite incapable of hunting tigers. Because unless it is within a distance of 1,000 meters, the zt41's 105mml68-caliber artillery may be able to penetrate the Hunter Tiger, but the rest is a no-brainer
On the contrary, the 128mm gun of the Hunter Tiger, even at a distance of 2,000 meters, may destroy the zt41, let alone a medium tank like the zt40.
"It's strange, how can the Germans have such a strong thing"
Because he is the leader of the group, Li Mo's tanks do not need to go to the front line, so he can have more time to observe the opponent.
And when he saw that as long as the hunting tiger on the opposite side could hit the opponent, it could more or less take away the opponent, Li Mo said in surprise.
It was also at this time that Li Mo changed his mind a lot about the tank destroyer, which he originally didn't care much about.
On the other hand, the German commander was also quite surprised.
After learning about the exchange of fire between the frontline troops and the Chinese armored forces, the German commander who learned of the situation originally wanted to send some No. 3 and No. 4 tanks, or at most Leopards. After all, these tanks were more mobile. Well, the reliability is quite strong and it can reach the battlefield in a relatively short time.
However, after learning about this situation, Manstein sent out heavy tanks such as King Tiger and Hunter Tiger. Even if this may delay the time for assistance, we will not hesitate.
Because Manstein, who had been to China and understood Chinese tank technology, knew very well that if the No. 3 and No. 4 were really sent there, although there would definitely be enough time, the final fate of these tanks would definitely be worrying.
So in the end, Manstein sent the King Tiger and the Jagdtiger, which represented the highest technology of German tanks.
And things are indeed as Manstein thought. If he really sent No. 3 and No. 4, even if there are Leopards, I am afraid that what will greet them in the end will only be a one-sided massacre. But after sending the Tiger King and Hunting Tiger, although the battle situation was somewhat stalemate, and the Tiger King may not be zt41's opponent, with the presence of such a big thing as Hunting Tiger, it is not easy for Li Mo to win. Easy thing.
"We must kill the tank destroyer on the opposite side"
Thinking this, Li Mo grabbed the radio and said to Gan Liang, the commander of the second battalion.
"Go, take a few tanks and destroy the tank destroyers on the opposite side!!!"
"clear."
Although he was very aware of the danger of the mission, he also understood that the presence of the hunting tiger was an obstacle. Gan Liang, the battalion commander of the zt40 tank, answered directly after receiving the order. . . )——
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