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jjumbo

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Posted: Friday, July 20, 2007 - 04:10 PM UTC

Hi all,

Has anyone seen this site before?

http://tanksinmoscow.com/Foto/foto.htm

It's got some great photos for all those people that like things green, crude and ugly.

Cheers

jjumbo

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Posted: Friday, July 20, 2007 - 04:37 PM UTC

Thanks for sharing! I've been reading various things for 6+ years and they have photos of a Tiger that I've never seen before. I saw a list of existing Tigers some time ago and that one was not included. Have I just missed one or are others of you seeing it for the first time too?

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Posted: Friday, July 20, 2007 - 05:19 PM UTC

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Thanks for sharing! I've been reading various things for 6+ years and they have photos of a Tiger that I've never seen before. I saw a list of existing Tigers some time ago and that one was not included. Have I just missed one or are others of you seeing it for the first time too?

jjumbo

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Posted: Friday, July 20, 2007 - 08:38 PM UTC

this is great

SnakeEye

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Posted: Friday, July 20, 2007 - 09:09 PM UTC

Thanks and a hot link
http://tanksinmoscow.com/Foto/foto.htm

dbudd

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Posted: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 - 09:09 AM UTC

Hey Dave,
Yeah, something unusual for a change.
I've previously only seen one photo of this "Russian" Tiger I until today.
The walk-around is fairly comprehensive although I assume that most of the interior has been gutted over the last 60+ years and all of the fittings appear missing.
It looks like the Tiger was used for target practice considering the location of some of the penetrations.
I counted 14 or 15 strikes and penetrations that I can see, the port side view not being available.
Interesting photos none the less.

Thanks for the input. I hoping some day that they will pull an intact (or mostly intact) Tiger or King Tiger out an Eastern European swamp, like the Panther Jacque Littlefield collection. I've seen a few T34s and Stug found in very good shape as well.

SGTJKJ

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Posted: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 - 06:50 PM UTC

Wow! Great site! It will be very good and helpful for when I get around to building my BMD-2. I am very tempted to go for the parachute version seen HERE . It could make for a very different looking vehicle and a fun conversion.

Thanks for sharing

jjumbo

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Posted: Thursday, July 26, 2007 - 04:08 AM UTC

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Thanks for the input. I hoping some day that they will pull an intact (or mostly intact) Tiger or King Tiger out an Eastern European swamp, like the Panther Jacque Littlefield collection. I've seen a few T34s and Stug found in very good shape as well.

Hey Dave,
If would be a very rare and valuable bit of "buried treasure" to find if they were ever did find a Tiger I or King Tiger sunk in a marsh.
There were 1346 Tiger I's and only 492 production and prototype KT's built compared to a reported 84,070 T-34/76's and T-34/85's.
Thats about 45.5 T-34's for every Tiger tank built.
Better chance they'll find a StuG III or IV in a bog somewhere, there being 9600+ StuG III's and StuH's and 1141 StuG IV's built.
We can only hope

Cheers

jjumbo

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Posted: Thursday, July 26, 2007 - 05:00 AM UTC

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Thanks for the input. I hoping some day that they will pull an intact (or mostly intact) Tiger or King Tiger out an Eastern European swamp, like the Panther Jacque Littlefield collection. I've seen a few T34s and Stug found in very good shape as well.

Hey Dave,
If would be a very rare and valuable bit of "buried treasure" to find if they were ever did find a Tiger I or King Tiger sunk in a marsh.
There were 1346 Tiger I's and only 492 production and prototype KT's built compared to a reported 84,070 T-34/76's and T-34/85's.
Thats about 45.5 T-34's for every Tiger tank built.
Better chance they'll find a StuG III or IV in a bog somewhere, there being 9600+ StuG III's and StuH's and 1141 StuG IV's built.
We can only hope
Cheers

jjumbo

Very true, but there is always hope. AFV Modeller had an article about a King Tiger that was found under a highway in France. It had been demolished, but it was a really cool reference, because it still had its orginal paint and zimmerit.

I always wondered if there might be an early Tiger in a sunken transport ship at the bottom of the Mediterrean Sea. Even if there was it would be very difficult to recover.