We highly recommend checking out his video on the Tiger Tank when you're done here. He also does it in a hilariously entertaining way. He's a veteran armchair war historian and master wordsmith who backs up his considerably inflammatory opinions on our favorite tanks, planes, and warships with cold, hard, unconcerned-with-your-opinion facts. LazerPig on YouTube is a war-vehicle enthusiast's dream come true. Happily, there's someone out there who more or less did just that. We could spend weeks, heck, even months e-mailing the curators of America's war museums to find all the reasons much of the Tiger's mythos results from gross over-exaggeration. No, seriously, there are people on online forums who think that. The article has been corrected.Claims that declare things like 'It took five American Shermans to take out one German Tiger' or 'The Tiger could take on a modern Abrams tank and win' still echo across sweaty Reddit threads. Update: this article was accidentally edited to imply that infantry tanks typically had less effective armor. And while everything seems to be twice as big, the performance gains are often exponentially better: the main gun of the Challenger may be twice as wide in diameter but's many, many times more effective.

The Challenger is superior in every way, from speed to cross-country performance. The difference between the two tanks in the video is huge. The Challenger 2 in the video has an extra layer of reactive armor on the side of the turret and hull, and cage-like ' slat armor' surrounding the rear engine compartment-two upgrades that came about as a result of experience in the Iraq War. Armored protection is classified but is known to use so-called 'Chobham armor', a mixture of ceramic and metal composites also used in earlier versions of the M1 Abrams tank. It speeds along at up to 37 miles an hour, more than twice as fast as the Churchill, and has more than double the horsepower to weight ratio.Ĭhallenger 2 is armed with a 120-millimeter rifled anti-tank gun and, like the Churchill, it has two smaller 7.62-millimeter machine guns for engaging infantry, anti-tank missile crews, and light vehicles. At 27 feet long and 65 tons, it's more than fifty percent heavier than its ancestor the Churchill. The Challenger 2 tank, which came into service in 1998, is the standard main battle tank of the British Army.

Modern tank vs the ww2 tiger