King Tiger 104 goes for a ride! Bovington, England

[scaronmybum]

bovington has 2 king tigers

[MrCOLE711]

U KNOW WY CANT WE JUST MAKE ALL THESE TANKS AGAIN I MEAN WE THE MANUALS THAT SHOW HOW TO MAKE EM WE HAVE THE MATERIAL SO WHY DOESN'T ANYONE REMAKE THESE BAD ASS TANKS LIKE THE TIGER, AND THE KING TIGER

[SSBlackAngel]

thanks for the video it was nice to see a 360 degree view of this Panzer and the damage it received. Its too bad politically correct morons have to post idiotic things all the time. a "Nazi Tank" now ive herd everything

[SavageJim01]

I wonder just how well the solid armor plate of this WW2 piece performs as compared to composite armours of modern tanks? Like the M1 Abrams armor?

[MrAquafan]

Its not the tanks that are important its the guys who fought in them that are the real heros

[BFOP15]

It's quite funny to read so much pointless comments....

Ktiger is a Nazi Tank? lol, Did a tank have political view? I don't think so.

So T34 is a communist tank?

Ktiger is german made, T34 russian made, and I ensure you, none of them have ever had any ideology.

Stop put some politics where there are no place for it.

I saw the working Ktiger in Saumur, and Ididn't see any neonazi demonstrating in front of it, nor any commie in front of the T34.

[TheNazgarth]

why dont they restore it?

They've got all of the other WW2 tanks there and the king is probably the best - y not restore it

[penndeutschmann]

Its best like it is. You can see form the post here it would only be a rally point and touchstone for neo nazi/skinhead types

[ocolumbia]

Light up the plasma torch mates!

[Tiger313NL]

It lit up the Ronsons alright. You know, those M4 tanks you called Shermans. The British crews called them Ronsons, after the cigarette lighter with the little popup cap. For obvious reasons of course. ;)

[327pir]

Yhis one never did anything but get captured pretty much intact. In fact this Marl was alrgely infeffectual. I agree light up the torches and scrap this heap

[ocolumbia]

Well put Louis;

Jerusalem!

[ocolumbia]

Cut it up for scrap like the rest.

[wovelscotch]

...cut you up for scrap

[ocolumbia]

There are a lot more worthwhile charities than to contribute to preserving a bloody NAZI hunk of junk. Wasted , Quid and labour.

[wovelscotch]

I'm sorry i was misinformed. I didn't know it was charity work. Do all tanks run off donations or is it just this one?

[Taffer20]

Why would you want to do that? I give tremendous credit to the British for preserving their history and even the history of their former enemies.

[llatimer2]

Those thousands of pounds could go to many more worthy causes. WWII is gone. It lives on the hearts and minds of those who foguht and in their children's, children. WE need no expensive steel monuments.

... "did not HIS feet in ancient time

Walk upon england's mountains green?

And was the holy lamb of god

On England's pleasant pastures seen?

And did the countenance divine

Shine forth upon our clouded hills?

And was Jerusalem builded here...In England's green and pleasant land?"

[Taffer20]

Those steel monuments are our connection to our past. These steel monuments are silent witnesses to past events and keeping those monuments preserved, is humanities way of preserving those who died in serving their countries. If you feel that there are more worthy causes to give to, then by all means you should join and devote your time to helping those causes. Do you want to repeat the mistakes that the Taliban did in Afghanistan when they destroyed those giant Buddha statues?

[ocolumbia]

The Gautama Buddha was a religous figure, like our Christ. How dare you make the comparison to a NAZi tank! Taht is an ourtrage to million of Buddhists. NAZISM is a past best NOT remembered.

[Taffer20]

No, your missing my point. My point is that why destroy our history? German tanks or the Great Pyramids of Egypt. The previous person committed that the tank does not serve a purpose, but yet it does. It is our connection to our past and why destroy it. Even so, the tank still continues to provide for people in the form of tourist dollars, employment and taxes.

[llatimer2]

Bull shit. Bovington is pretty remote for alot of tourist who want to see the beauty that is England. Shoul all the crematoriums and gas chambers be preserved, too? Melt it down like nearly all the rest, or use it has Challenger target practise

[Taffer20]

Have you been to the tank museum? I have. It is far from being remote. You believe that by burying the past, either good or bad is going to protect us? Nazism is on the raise in East Germany. Europe vowed to never allow a genocide to repeat again on its soil. But yet, look what happened in the former Yugoslavia. Ignorance is a poor defense for preventing atrocities.

[ocolumbia]

Has far as tourist destinations it is. I was born in England. The vehicle is obscure to all those except a few affictionadoes and fanactics. A lot of neo NAZI types here and elsewhere use this vehicke as their touchstone for aryan technological supremacy. I say pass the torch.

[themollusc]

ocolumbia "I was born in England. Blah blah blah blah blah".

Shame you've forgotten how to spell in the language!

[ocolumbia]

I suffer from lateral schlerosis. What is your excuse for your rudeness and intolerance?

[themollusc]

LOL I neither need nor have an excuse. I hate poor spelling and grammar. No excuse for that in this day and age. Spell checker, anyone?

[327pir]

Like your grammar and punciation are perfect. I looked by over his posts and for a man with a muscle wasting disease like Prof. Hawkins' he is doing pretty well.

Stupid snail (mollusk, m-o-l-l-u-s-k, got it ?)

Big of you to harry the handicapped

[themollusc]

Yes yes yes. So you have at least two user names on YouTube. Oh, and mollusc is spelt with a c in ENGLISH. Only in America do they mangle the spelling to "mollusk"!

[ocolumbia]

Well the OED has both spellings as being correct : English-English

mollusk

n. invertebrate animal with a soft body and a hard shell (i.e. oysters, mussels, snails, cuttlefish, etc.), mollusc

Which describes you perfectly

BTW Webster's The First Part of the Grammatical Institute of the English Language. or The American Spelling Book was the first standardised English Lexicon even preceding the OED. Now do you ahve anything wory of saying about tanks or Bovington, Spineless?

[327pir]

Last time I look there were a helluva lot more English speakers in the the US than in the UK. Come over pussy boy and I'll mangle you, you nutless shit.

[327pir]

Oh and who else am I supposed to be dickless? Shit on you

[ocolumbia]

My recollection is that it is almost 3 hours from London by car. Most American tourist don't venture far from Westminster. Don't think most could manage the M3

[Taffer20]

Thats why you take a train. Don't most tourists in the states take a train or bus to the Grand Canyon?

[ocolumbia]

Again poor comparison. The Grand Canyon is a world renown natural Wonder, not a piece of junk tank.

[Taffer20]

In terms of difficulty in reaching it is a good comparison. You have been missing my points quite consistently.

[ocolumbia]

No, we simply have opposing view points. Even as far as weapons go, WWII has more memorable tanks, for instance the MArk VI Aufs A. Memorailise with the weapons, if you must, taht palyed a realy signicant part in the war and there after. Should we ahve saved the B-19 or the the Continental defender?or Enfield .279 M-1 rifle?

[ocolumbia]

Its not history in and off itself. Just another artifact. The pyramids area very poor analogy. Their purpose was never destructive and they are the last of the Ancient Worlds 7 marvels. This tank is just junk that feed evil Hitler's ego. Slicing it to pieces whilst Holocaust survivors watched would be a sight worth seeing.

[Taffer20]

No, its a perfect analogy. Both are artifacts and both served a purpose in our history. Lets take what you consider a evil purpose. Should we have Christians watch while the Colosseum in Rome be destroyed? It served a evil purpose, but yet the Italians look favorably upon it. The problem is that you have a very narrow view point. You would rather have us forget evil parts of our past. I'm sure Holocaust survivors would vehemently disagree with you on that view point.

[llatimer2]

After the shooting in DC bya neo Nazi in forn tof the Holocaust Museum? I think not. The Fueher bunker had a lot more hostorical value and the Germnas themselves demolished it along with the public display of the swastika

[Taffer20]

Both have historical value. There are very few King Tigers remaining in the world. In a way the tank serves as the same role as the Holocaust Museum. To ensure we don't forget.

[llatimer2]

The King Tiger Tank was late in the war and there were few made. Its impact was neglible in its actions and has a tempalte for future design; more like how NOT to design a tank

[ocolumbia]

Quite true Louis most of the allies encountered the Mark IV, which is well represented at the Tank Museum. This was the tank of the NAZI victories in the Blitzkrieg

[llatimer2]

Yeah, scrap it

[ktc8308]

How about raising a restoration fund for Königstiger 104? I believe many of tiger friends will give helping hands.

[B3ND0G]

Count me in.

[ktc8308]

Any new restoration project to make King Tiger 104 run ?

[hatakashi1900]

Until somebody donates around 50,000 pounds....

[BYAAAAAAAH]

Does anyone know how many of these Jesusmobiles there are left?

[hollenweger]

Around 12 in total, several of which are in museums, and only one of which runs (Samur)

[ToonandBBfan]

Did The KingTiger have the same engine as the Tiger 1?

[rossmum]

No, it had the same engine as the Panther.

[TheBigTittyTwister]

And the same engine as the Jagdtiger --> too less engine power for that vehicle size, especially for the Jagdtiger!

[argus91]

This one is equiped with a Porsche turret. Nice.

[babaruh]

if you ask me the henschel turret looks better:)

[hatakashi1900]

er..not this one, this is the Production Turret, not the Porsche turret.

[argus91]

Yes, I've mistaken. I didn't see very well on this video, I watched the second one of this Königstiger, it's filmed outside.

[Heruskerland]

I love that maybach-powered Tanks.

Nice Vid. *****

[felixzs]

that Mayback-powerd tank is being towed by a tractor lol!!

[Metallicakicksbutt]

The Panther was the best tank in WW2 and the germans would have been smarter to produce many of those instead of wasting time,money and resources to build a few King Tigers.

[hirdas]

They had the best tanks when the Tiger and the Panter entered service, but the war was already unwinable by the winter of 1941..regardless of the number of Panter Tanks they would could never win the war once the Russians had moved all productions accross the Urals and the Summer offencive halted, not to mention the enormous industrial production of the US.

[Danielkain]

at least one shot

[Danielkain]

I wanna see at least a shot of these ones in colors =(

[spencermcgrew]

no fucking shit a leopard is better! apples to oranges ppl fucking 30 year time gap

[kaupunkimoukari]

Yea, Leopard 2 is better with 47L engine, 12 pistons, over 1000 horse power, better transmission and suspenssion but it is made 50 years after the Tiger II. Tiger II is a really master peace of its own time. And did Leopard 2 take part in the second world war, NO it didn`t!. Btw, Germans did have a prototype of leopard in the wwII.

[SnowAlpineBunny]

Leopard 2 is better

[kaupunkimoukari]

tiger II would be the best tank of world warII if germans have had more fuel, 700hv motor takes at least 3.5L of gasoline every kilometer

[EnCom511]

The russians captured to king tigers and tested them. "Fuel consumption per 100 km was 970 liters instead of the 700 liters according to this same (captured) manual."

[wartmcbeighn]

And your point is??

[teamwounder]

4 gallons to a mile.  nice.

[7707365w]

Did you know that the only one King Tiger in the world which is still working is in FRANCE ?

You can see this tank in the museum of my town ( SAUMUR ). It's an awesome museum !

You don't believe me ? Search with Wikipedia, you'll see !

[KnorpelDelux]

I dont :D.

There is an other one in Germany in the Munster Museum.

The americans gave it back to the german Army in 1955 when Germany had his new Bundeswehr.

Its a Tiger II Henschel-Turm.

Its able to drive and to fire. You can watch it in the militär museum Munster (like i said befor...:D).

Thats in the north of Germany near Lüneburg.

[SaccaraGermany]

@wintertwiser

A 88 on a Panther? The 75 was much better, it flew faster!

[gframpton1]

Jagdpanther had an 88

[xiso]

And had more penetration in cause of this speed.

The next problem was the weight of the 88.. a reason for the low motorization of german tanks.

King Tiger, Tiger, Panther .. all tanks with the same problem, but in compare .. the Panther was the best german tank.

[wintertwister]

The Pershing that killed a King Tiger and a Panther on April 4,1945, carried a 90 mm/70 caliber T15E1 high-velocity gun that threw a projectile at 3,850 ft/s (1,173 m/s). Wikipedia, Tanks and Armored Fighting Vehicles.

[gunmetalxXx]

beutiful Kingtiger!! the most powerful and best tank in WW2!

[wintertwister]

The Pershing could kill it and the IS-2 could kill it.

[missge123456]

haha really? the german tanks had better defence and shoot range. NO allied tank could destroy this tank.look around in you tube and you will find some videos from tank battles where the german tanks attack while the allied tanks are driving because theyre not in range to shoot the germans. maybe there were some tanks that could be destroyed by the Pershing but the königstiger was the most heavy and the srtongest german tank.

[wintertwister]

One Pershing killed 2 King Tigers in April 1945. However, this one was equipped with some special cannon. Normally, no Allied tank, including the Pershing and IS-3 could match up with the K-Tiger straight up. I will try to find out what kind of cannon that was. I think the Panther was the best all around German tank in terms of operations (able to manuever and function with other units), armor and fire power. Imagine if they stuck an 88 on that instead of the long 75.

[CloneTrooperz]

The panther tank had a motor that gave poor perfomance, if you look deeply, the TANK used a Panzer IV motor which gave very slow velocity. And the vehicle was also filled with many produktion bugs

[wboquist]

CloneTrooperz, the Panther had a 700 bhp Maybach v-12 in it that gave excellent performance. The Panzer IV had a 300 bhp engine in it. Check your facts!

[gframpton1]

Maus was heavier, maybe also elefant

[KnorpelDelux]

The Maus (or Pz.Kpfw. VII) was 200 Tonnen heavy.

The elepfant (or Ferdinand) had the older version of the 88mm ATG which had a smaller range. But Ferdinand Porsche was such a sucker (:D) that his nice idea was just a fart on the battlefield because most of them burned without enemy fire.

[KnorpelDelux]

Well thats right but with its new version of an 88mm ATG it was able to kill the M26 pershing ( there were only 20 of them in Europa) and the IS II on a very long range.

P.S.: The US Army gave the advise to all of their tank commanders that they had to be at last one batterie (4 or more tanks) when they fight against Tiger II.

[ck002]

its not the bovinton museum, thier KT is the porshe turret and is numbered 300. theres one running KT that i know of in france in the Saumar museum. and they did not have as many panzer 4's as king tigers.. the numbers of King tigers didnt break the 1500 mark. infact the Tiger ones production only just broke that.

[hollenweger]

Trust me mate, this is bovington, the KT was in the hall at the back filled with modern armour, you can even see the Panther F turret in the background on the video. 104 was formerly held at Shrivenham Military Academy until being reclaimed by Bovington last year. The tank is being taken outside so a group of reenactors (myself included) can do a photoshoot. Do you want to see the pictures?

[ck002]

ah fair dues then, i stand corrected :)

[ghtp11]

i wished i had one get back at my friend for almost catching my house on fire! lol just kidding i just dont like him

[HeppiVeikko]

Oh come on, if you knew a bit more about ww2 you would know that the Germans had as many Tiger II(Kingtiger is NOT a real name!) in running condition as they had Panzer IV! The Tiger II&I were awesome tanks if supplied with a experienced and well trained crew and support. Its bad reputation comes from unexperienced crew or using it the wrong way. Tiger I succes came because it was only issued to elite units, the Tiger II appeared so late that new crews were hard to train.

[salamander163]

the germans produced almost 8,000 pz IV, and 1500 tiger I and almost 500 tiger II, and crew were no the problem, it was the many bugs in the tank itself, besides the scarce supply of petrol

[lmandozal]

Like the fact it weighed more then most tanks?

[Skullstorm17]

I've seen several Tiger II tanks where they are on display and I've seen the one that's still running and that's not one of them, with all exterior parts visible that is. It has alot missing to it and something else is pulling it.

[danowest]

theyve got the one at bovington working again now and they use it in some of their shows to, it sounds so fucking lovely

[grudgebringer]

What a beast, saw one in Munster in Germany, it was some piece of work.

[capitaomiller]

Dank Hollenweger, it looks like there is one wheel missing at the track sistem, right after the end wheel. There is a film of the Tiger Ii at samour here at YouTube, just make a search... it IS RUNNING!

[Kynos1]

Impressive tank! A masterpeice of German engineering!

[Panzerkommandant]

Ironic, because it may have been a masterpeice in battle, but it had alot og engine problems like the Tiger I.

[bavarialand]

the U.S.Army was restoring one in the 80's but they blew the engine during trials and now it sits in the army history center out of public site. "Dumb asses"

[USA12589]

They weren't dumb asses at all! the Germans were annihilating their King TIger engines all over the show due to the fact that the engine wasn't powerful enough to move this incredibly heavy tank and so therefore were put under massive stress. Destroying the engine of the King Tger tank by merely driving it is not very hard to do

[capitaomiller]

This must be the only Tiger II in running conditions at the Samour Tank Museum, France. Please, send us some more!

[hollenweger]

Actually this is not in running condition, it is being towed by a bulldozer, this KT lacks an engine, gearbox and turret traverse system, as they were scrapped in the 90's :(

[KougasMate]

Actually this is the Bovington Tank Museum, in Dorset England.