Vk 45 01 H

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Vk 45 01 h. Vk 45 01 h had no periscopes in the driver s or radio operator s hatches. Prototype vk 4501 p during the demonstration for hitler at rastenburg april 20 1942 versuchsträger trial chassis of vk 45 01 h. Iv schmalturm vi vk 30 01 d vi vk 30 02 m vii panther m10 vii panther vii vk 30 02 d viii panther mit 8 8 cm l 71 viii panzer 58 viii schwarzpanzer 58 viii panzer 58 mutz viii m48a2 räumpanzer viii indien panzer viii panther ii ix. It came in two variants the vk 45 01 h h2 with a 75 mm l 70 gun and the vk 45 01 h h1 with an 88 mm l 56 gun.

This and the tank being less maneuverable than its competitor was the reason why henschel s 88mm armed vk 45 01 h h1 prototype which became the tiger i was adopted for production instead. This mule is used to test the running gear and motorization. The vk 45 01 p also known as tiger p or porsche tiger was the official designation for an unsuccessful heavy tank prototype produced by porsche in germany in 1942. It was not selected for production and the henschel design to the same specification was produced as the tiger i most of the already produced chassis were instead rebuilt as elefant tank destroyers.

1 the vk 45 01 p chassis was later chosen to be the basis of a new heavy tank destroyer which would eventually be called the ferdinand and mount the new 88 mm pak 43 2. The prototype had a flat hatch style opening stopper for the cupola lid which opened fully flat this means that there was no swing arm for the hatch opener or spring gear. Vk 45 01 h was a german tank which was the final prototype of the panzer vi tiger i evolved from the vk 36 01 h designed by henschel it was selected by adolf hitler over the competing vk 45 01 p from porsche for production into the tiger i. The vk 36 01 h was to be armed with the 75mm kwk 42 l 70 gerat 725 the 88mm kwk 36 l 56 mounted in the vk 45 01 p s turret or the 105mm l 20 or l 28 gun.

The hatch would have been opened manually dropped. The demonstration and subsequent evaluations on the two designs determined that the henschel variant was superior to the porsche variant proving more reliable more mobile and more easily produced than the porsche. The vk 45 01 p is a premium gift rank iii german heavy tank with a battle rating of 5 3 ab rb sb. But just as with the vk 30 01 h it was never armed with any weapon.

The mp klappen were asymmetrical. H v pz kpfw.