Tiger Tanks in production

http://www.hmvf.co.uk/index.php?option= ... 6&Itemid=2


Well this is quite interesting.

 

Nice, shall i place an forum-order?

 

Thats cool that they are building them again.

 

Hell yes! I'll take 2 please

 

Imagine buying one and taking it to Russia and driving down the highway. They'd think it was the ghost of a tank from WW2

 

I kinda have to wonder why they're doing this. Has a sudden demand for Tiger replicas suddenly sprung up? I do commend them for making sure that the weapons will all be non-firing, however.

 

I dont think they would allow a civilian to have a 88. lol.

 

A guy in Sydney recently stole a tankette and started knocking down mobile phone towers with it. Lucky he didn't have any ammo. :bang:

 

where's the fun in having a tank if you are not allowed to fire it?

 

first was the new me 262, now the new tiger , what is next?

 

The new V1 flying bomb.

 

and who's going to build/finance and sell them?
you can find all the info for the me 262 here:
http://www.stormbirds.com/project/index.html
and we have the info for the tiger!!!!

 

read this too:
http://www.airspacemag.com/issues/2006/ ... rmbird.php

 

Thanks.

 

There's also newbuild Fw190s, Oscars and even in Canada a newbuild Mossie in the works.

 

Cool!

 

I will believe it when they start actually producing them. It would be extremely expensive to produce and the market would be very small (if it even exists at the price point it would require).
Also; I cannot imagine why a replica would weigh 50+ tons which is the weight of the original. Most of the weight is in the thick armor plate. Why would a replica, which won't be shot at, be produced with armor plate of the thickness of the original?
The original required IIRC about 300,000 man hours of labor to produce.
Of course the hand work of the original wouldn't be done and most of the parts could be produced by machine but it would still be extremely expensive.

 

to add up at grieg's post as it doesn't have a (main)gun as well (only a bigger engine) were does that heavy weight come from?

 

Presumably they are using real thickness mild steel or a modern alloy equivalent to WWII armour steel deliberately to keep the weight up so it will tear up the grass, shake the ground, ride, handle and perform like the real thing. It's going to cost alot anyway and while the price of steel has been going up it'll still be only a small amount of the final price, and this way it'll be able to do all the things people love to see tanks do at demonstrations that tanks rarely do in normal operation, like knock down walls/houses/trees and crush cars.

 

does anybody have an idea of the final price?
one me 262 cost 2 mill base price