![]() ![]() The Tiger was a formidable machine that pushed the boundaries of armored warfare and forced the Allies to devise better tanks. Excellent engineering and training versus numbers underlined all this philosophy and was reflected, later, in small tactical unit operations. Something which targeted absolute excellence in design, combining lethality with the best possible protection, only given to elite crews, all this regardless of the cost. In its concept laid the very core of the German conception of a heavy tank. When comparing the small number of Panzerkampfwagen VI Ausf.E (Sd Kfz 181) Tiger Tanks produced (only 1346), to the more than 120,000 T-34s and Shermans combined, one can appreciate the psychological impact of this model, at least from the Allied tank crew perspective. Panzer VI Tiger I Germany (1942) - Heavy Tank - 1346 built Original article by David Bocquelet, 25 december 2013 Excellence versus numbers
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