I wouldn't want to be caught cranking that thing 700 times. Did the Tiger drivers just rev the engine up temporarily to make the turret rotate when they needed it? Also, is the gun elevation also linked to the same hydraulic system?
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I wouldn't want to be caught cranking that thing 700 times. Did the Tiger drivers just rev the engine up temporarily to make the turret rotate when they needed it? Also, is the gun elevation also linked to the same hydraulic system?
Yes they would rev the engine to speed turret revolution. And the power traverse was used to get the gun in the general direction. The manual traverse and elevation was then used for the fine tuning to actually lay the gun on target.
In an emergency the King Tiger could traverse its turret 360 degrees in 9 seconds, yes NINE seconds. They would slip it into a crazy gear that was hard on the mechanism and wheeled it around like crazy.
Without the emergency gears the turret traversed 360 in 19-77 seconds. (19 seconds @ 2000 engine RPM).
I assume the 360deg in 1 hr was for the manual traverse
:lol:
I got to play with a Sheridan once...the power traverse was too inaccurate so they'd use manual (and they'd break the power one when they dropped them out of C-130's) and OMG what a bitch...not to mention the train wreck when you fired that 152mm gun. UGH.
But I digress.
A Sherman tank can give you an... edge. - Oddball.
Germans were to dumb to put a diesel in the tiger. Allies are lucky tiger did not have a diesel they would have had a lot more trouble. Tanks need torque not horsepower, this would also have a postive effect on the turret rotation speed.
Germans were to dumb to put a diesel in the tiger. Allies are lucky tiger did not have a diesel they would have had a lot more trouble. Tanks need torque not horsepower, this would also have a postive effect on the turret rotation speed.
A Junkers Jumo 207 version rated at 700hp would have been good.
Germans had so much explosion problems with that piece of shit maybach hl230. Allies would have had it in for them had the germans have had enough intelligence to use a diesel in a 58 ton vehicle. I am pretty sure the junkers 207 is an aero engine, would not work at all, and a diesel engine in a plane is justs bad as a a gas in a tank.
Last edited by TommyGunDaliani; January 12th, 2004 at 11:31 PM.
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