• Plibbert@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    Nah wiki says your right. A company called Henschel made the tiger. Krupp helped with the tiger 2. Porsche was barley involved. I didn’t even know he competed for the contract, I thought he just coined the name.

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      8 months ago

      Because they were prohibitively expensive in materials to make. They were diesel electric. Like modern trains. But all the copper needed made them unfeasible.