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a German heavy tank from the Second world war, the prototype of which was the tank VK4501 (H), created in 1942 by the company "Henschel" under the leadership of Erwin Aders. In departmental through classification of armored vehicles of Nazi Germany initially the tank received the designation Pz.Kpfw.VI (Sd.Kfz.181) Tiger Ausf.H1, but after the adoption of the eponymous new heavy tank — PzKpfw VI Ausf. B the Roman numeral "I" was added to the name to distinguish it from the later machine, which in turn was referred to as "Tiger II". Although the design of the tank were made small changes, modification of the tank was just one. In Soviet documents, the tank "Tiger" was designated as T-6 or T-VI.
Together with the prototype of the company Henschel command of the Reich was shown and the Porsche project, VK4501 (P), but the choice of the military Commission fell on the version of Henschel, despite the fact that Hitler himself more favored the product Porsche.
First Tiger tanks took part in battle on 29 August 1942 at the station mga near Leningrad, massively began to be exploited since the battle and capture of Kharkov in February — March 1943, was used by the Wehrmacht and SS troops until the end of the Second world war.
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