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Title: Tiger tank start up
Post by: Butcher on July 22, 2012, 10:55:41 PM

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=25c_1327678672 (http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=25c_1327678672)

Cool video of a tiger being started, sounds just like what we have in game :)

Title: Re: Tiger tank start up
Post by: ALFAMEGA51 on July 22, 2012, 11:41:21 PM

Nice find butch  :aok

Title: Re: Tiger tank start up
Post by: GScholz on July 23, 2012, 05:44:31 AM

Inertia starter huh? That means if you stall the engine in combat the crew has to exit the tank to re-start the motor. Nasty.  :huh

Title: Re: Tiger tank start up
Post by: bj229r on July 23, 2012, 08:30:14 PM

What I always found fascinating was that the wheels are turned by electric motors....engine is apparently nothing but a generator

Title: Re: Tiger tank start up
Post by: Lusche on July 23, 2012, 08:53:07 PM

Quote from: bj229r on July 23, 2012, 08:30:14 PM

What I always found fascinating was that the wheels are turned by electric motors....engine is apparently nothing but a generator

The Tiger had a conventional transmission.

Title: Re: Tiger tank start up
Post by: Bigfoot on July 24, 2012, 12:46:11 AM

 :aok

Title: Re: Tiger tank start up
Post by: Sombra on July 24, 2012, 04:36:36 AM

Quote from: bj229r on July 23, 2012, 08:30:14 PM

What I always found fascinating was that the wheels are turned by electric motors....engine is apparently nothing but a generator

Only in Porsche's Tiger. Porsche and Henschel's proposals for Tiger were presented to Hitler in his birthday in 1942. Porsche prototype was more unreliable and lost to Henschel's.

http://www.achtungpanzer.com/panzerkampfwagen-vi-tiger-p-vk4501p-porsche-typ-101.htm

(http://www.modellversium.de/galerie/img/1/5/8/4158/3081922/vk-4501p-tigerp-italeri.jpg)

Title: Re: Tiger tank start up
Post by: GScholz on July 24, 2012, 04:51:36 AM

And it was ugly to boot.