However, as the Germans faced the formidable T-34, more powerful anti-tank guns were needed, and since the Panzer IV had more development potential with a larger turret ring, it was redesigned to mount the long-barrelled 7.5 cm KwK 40 gun. It was intended to fight other armoured fighting vehicles and serve alongside and support the similar Panzer IV, which was originally designed for infantry support. The official German ordnance designation was Sd.Kfz. Panzer III, was a medium tank developed in the 1930s by Germany, and was used extensively in World War II. The fighting vehicle is also known by various informal names, among which the Sturmtiger became the most popular. The few vehicles produced fought in the Warsaw Uprising, the Battle of the Bulge and the Battle of the Reichswald. Its primary task was to provide heavy fire support for infantry units fighting in urban areas. The official German designation was Sturmmörserwagen 606/4 mit 38 cm RW 61. Sturmtiger (German: "Assault Tiger") was a World War II German assault gun built on the Tiger I chassis and armed with a 380mm rocket-propelled mortar. After August 1944, production of the Tiger I was phased out in favour of the Tiger II. 1,347 were built between August 1942 and August 1944.
It gave the German Army its first armoured fighting vehicle that mounted the 8.8 cm KwK 36 gun (derived from the 8.8 cm Flak 36). Tiger I was a German heavy tank of World War II that operated beginning in 1942 in Africa and in the Soviet Union, usually in independent heavy tank battalions. Preserved at The Tank Museum in Bovington in Dorset, England, it is currently the only operational Tiger I in the world.
History Tiger 131 is a German Tiger I heavy tank captured by the British 48th Royal Tank Regiment in Tunisia during World War II.
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