A Deep Dive into the Tiger I, by the Chieftain

Big thank you to Chieftain for an excellent episode! Check out his channel at youtube.com/c/TheChieftainsHatch

"If you want to see an intact Tiger or King Tiger, they're still out there." This made me think of hordes of Tiger tanks, roaming the wilds looking for ammunition and fuel.

Me to the Chieftain: "Don't hit me with them negative waves so early in the morning."

I must admit I do like the “cutaway” views of the tank. Apart from allowing a great insight into the various thickness of the various Armoured plates. Equally, if they hadn’t cutaway the collection, they would have gone to the scrap yard decades ago. Once again thank you for sharing

A very interesting presentation of the Tiger 1. The turret traverse speed, explains why tank ace Michael Wittmann preferred to rotate the entire tank rather than the turret. He was using his Tiger like the tank destroyers he was previously experienced with.

"Always with the negative waves, Moriarty!" 🤣🤣🤣 Kelly's Heroes FTW!

in this example of a Tiger I the cut away sides make it easier to deal with "Oh bugger! The tank is on fire."

I hab a patient, an old guy 15 years ago, former German tank commander. He thought, the Tiger was a good tank „ because I survived the war in it“. He also changed my understanding of the effectiveness of WW II airpower against tanks. „How did you protect yourselves against enemy airplanes?“ „ we closed the hatches“. And:“ why should they try to kill our tanks, difficult, dangerous, when they could blow up our fuel supply“

An interesting talk. I was reading an article in the inet 'tank encyclopedia' which suggested that in addition to replacing the wide tracks for rail transport, it was also necessary to remove the outer road wheels. This talk got me thinking about the Soviet 'beast slayer', SU-152 and I found The Chieftain's talk on the ISU-152. It was interesting to learn of the 'log' on the Soviet vehicle. I'm glad you folks at World War Two chose to partner with The Chieftain.

When I was a kid (1974-6) my dad was stationed in Aberdeen Proving Ground and our neighborhood was literally across the street from the Tank Museum (you can image how many times I was kicked off of playing on the tanks!). Like your Tiger, they also had a Panzer 3 (maybe early 4) that had its hull opened up so you could see inside on display.

On of the interesting things I've read about Germany's production is that much of the forced labor that built these machines sabotaged them every chance they could. It wasn't something very blatant or easily noticeable. They did things like stuff rags and cigarette butts into oil and coolant lines. Put gears in transmissions and drives in backwards or wrong. Put flywheels together backwards. Leave off piston rings. Crimp or bend or not connect oil and coolant lines. Put in parts rejected from QC. Not fully torque down bolts or nuts. All these little things would allow the tank to pass all the initial tests and procedures, but once it hit the field it would break down faster.

The cuts decreased the historical value, but increased the educational value, and ultimately that's what these museums are about at the core

Love the Kelly's Hero reference!

The unsung heroes of the Tiger story are the maintenance crews, they performed real miracles to get damaged tanks from the field and get them working again.

This was a really cool surprise video! Thank you everyone at Time Ghost Army, Chieftain, & everyone at Fort Benning.

Thank you Indy. You are the reason why so many viewers anticipate new videos on your channel. You deserve an Emmy award for all your hard works. Also congrats to your team. You are awesome.

Today I learned that there’s more too WW2 and History in General instead of just naming German Tanks

This was a very thoughtful and informative video. All I can say with my knowledge of fixing things is "Thank God I didn't have to service the damn thing!" Mark from Melbourne Australia

31:21 I cant imaging a better viewing angle to make another final point. That is as badass as it can be and nobody will ever dare to dispute this.

Thank you for the detailed view of the tank and it’s strong and weak points. As a tank crewman in M48 and M60 tanks, I can see how the designers had conflicting views on the final product. The tank originally was designed to support the infantry. Second roll was anti tank sniper. They were not hard to work on if you had one knowledge person to run the show .