Jagdtiger

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The Jagdtiger was a German tank destroyer developed during World War II. It was essentially a turretless tank, built on a Tiger tank chassis and armed with a powerful 128-mm gun. Tank destroyers, in general, were designed to be highly mobile and lightly armored vehicles used to combat enemy tanks. They often featured thick frontal armor and a high-velocity gun capable of outranging opposing tanks, though their lighter side and rear armor made them more vulnerable. The Jagdtiger, along with other German tank destroyers, closely resembled assault guns due to their casemate-mounted guns and heavy armor.12

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…purpose, such as the 128-mm-gun Jagdtiger and the 122-mm-gun ISU, which in effect were turretless tanks. In addition, all armies developed lightly armoured self-propelled antitank guns. The U.S. Army developed a specialized category of tank destroyers that resembled self-propelled guns in being relatively lightly armoured but that, like tanks, had
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…purpose, such as the 128-mm-gun Jagdtiger and the 122-mm-gun ISU, which in effect were turretless tanks. In addition, all armies developed lightly armoured self-propelled antitank guns. The U.S. Army developed a specialized category of tank destroyers that resembled self-propelled guns in being relatively lightly armoured but that, like tanks, had
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