Tiger 2 Porsche Turret Vs Henschel

Porsche

Mass production began in 1942 with an eventual total of 1354 vehicles manufactured. Most importanty nearly all Porsche Jagdtigers had zimmeritt while none of the Henschel ones seem to have had it.

Hobby

The tank first saw combat in the fighting for Leningrad and Tigers were at the forefront of battles from Tunisia to Kursk.

Tiger 2 porsche turret vs henschel. Development of the Tiger I was started in 1937 by the Henschel company. Once the contracts for Porsche were rescinded the already produced turrets were converted to hydraulic drive and sent to Henschel. Their hull design originally known as VK4503 was approved for production as the Tiger II.

Everything underneath the turret was different. Porsche in antisipation of winning a contract to produce the Tiger II VK4502 P built 50 Porsche turrets. T-34 2 Pz4 Korean Pershing 2 M50 2 M51 M1 2 King Tiger.

King Tiger with production turret Henschel turret Source. Tiger II H The Tiger II H features the previously mentioned Henschel turret which is less angled but thicker than the Porsche turret. Rival firm Henschel began designing a KwK 43 armed tank in October 1942.

The Porsche hull of which they built 90 without having the contract yet because everybody expected Hitler to favour his preferred engineer was later recycled into the FerdinandElefant tank destroy. This Krupp-manufactured turret however would be used by both Porsche and Henschel for their prototypes and the pre-series vehicles produced by Henschel. When Henschel won the contract to build the Tiger II VK4502 H Hitler as a favor to Dr.

There were two types of turret mounted on the King Tiger. Before the final decission was made about which design should be mass produced 50 turrets had already been produced for the Porsche design proposal the decission was taken that the Henschel design should be mass produced. One type of turret was designed for the Porsche design proposal for the Tiger II and the other Henschel design proposal.

Feist Schwere Panzer i Detail Turret. Some Henschel tanks had an MG-42 fitted to the engine deck on a pedestal mount. Porsche vs Henschel King Tiger.

The main difference is the installation of the Sla16 diesel engine which produces 750 hp compared to the 690 hp of. This would be Porsches contender going up against and losing to Henschels VK 4503H for what would eventually become Tiger II. I would suggest the henschel turret as it is the later model of King tiger but it is up to you what turret you want to use.

Porsche had Henschel use the 50 Porsche turrets. Feel free to discuss anything and everything to do with tanking here. The first turret designed by Krupp was designed to fit on both the Henschel and Porsche chassis after the Henschel chassis was chosen for production the remaining Krupp turrets were fitted.

Porsche Turret Curved Front. Porsche tanks could have large curved metal covers on the exhaust similar to the Tiger I or King Tiger Porsche turret prototypes. Tiger II H Sla16 This premium variant is structurally identical to the Tiger II H.

The first 50 vehicles had a turret which is commonly referred to as Porsche-turret while the regular production turret also called Henschel-turret was used until the end. The Tiger I had two turrets designed for it the InitialEarly variant and the revision that was made after being officially adopted. There is 1 difference between the 2 Henschel used hydraulic drive for the turret while Porsche was electric.

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