KING OF BEASTS: JAGDTIGER (PORSCHE LAUFWERK) SDKFZ 186 IN 1/16 SCALE. The Jagdtiger was the heaviest and most powerful tank destroyer ever to be completed and was a considerable engineering achievement of great interest. Sporting a huge 128mm main gun, the menacing Jagdtiger was known to decimate US Sherman regiments. The main gun rounds for the 128mm were so large and heavy that they had to be broken down into two parts, the projectile and the cartridge. As a result, the Jagdtiger had two loaders instead of one like all other German tanks. The men commanding these Jagdtigers were Germany’s premium, stellar individuals such as Otto Carius, Albert Ernst, Walter Scherf just to name a few. The feeling of confidence, superiority and invincibility that the Jagdtigers gave its crew’s caused their morale to zoom even in the final days of the war. In battling allied armor, the Jagdtiger was superior to anything sent against it. Superbly effective against the allied streams of tanks, its heavy armor and armament was a relative immunity to allied armor that did great physical and morale damage to the enemy. Crowning its virtues, the Jagdtiger restored and fortified German tank morale and depressed that of the enemy. The allies made the philosophical error when they were planning the industrial production for their war in Europe. The industrialized capitalist powers believed that if you had enough quantity, they could out-weigh any quality vehicle. For them, it did not matter whether the German weapons were better, but on the battlefields, the men found out that it did matter….it was a slaughter, from purely capitalist motives, without any other cause. The international agitators whose interest is to make war, to profit from wars. America’s entry in World War II was nothing but one gigantic war-profiteering business venture, to the interest of capitol, and was ready to sacrifice the blood of American sons for that. Even more discomforting in the post cold war era was the transformation of America’s image throughout the world from benevolent liberator against tyranny to arrogant enforcer of a new world order based on greedy American capitalism and worship of crass materialism.
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