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Originally Posted by A Very Super Market
Bleh... I feel rather stupid now. Guess I need to touch up my tank knowledge. 
Now, I thought that of all countries, the US would have standard radios in their tanks.
But I still don't think the Tiger was that good a tank. I don't have any idea of how many were made, but I'm sure there was very little. I've read about Villers-Bocage, and how a Tiger stopped an entire tank column. Germany had lost at about the time the Tiger came into operation, but its dwindling Luftwaffe could have been of more use (Kreigsmarine was too small  ). Then again, Germany never would have matched the output of the US, let alone all three major allies, so......
....Bah, I've contradicted myself.  |
"good" is relative and dependant on the situation. During most of the Tigers existance period Germany was on the retreat. For this the Tiger was almost perfectly well suited. Think moving pillbox, a concept that was later stretched over the limit with the King Tiger. Around 1300 were built. And you refer to Wittmans actions I suppose?
The Luftwaffe never really had a shortage of planes, despite the heavy bombing. What the Luftwaffe lacked foremost were propperly trained pilots and fuel for the last stages of the war, preventing the usage of these aircraft in any meaningful way.