Armament: 128mm main gun and a hull-mounted machine gun Speed: 21.5 mph The Jagdtiger had the most powerful gun and thickest frontal armor of any AFV to be mass-produced in WWII. Too slow though, more like a mobile pillbox! 70 of these vehicles were produced at the Niebelungwerk at St Valentin, despite the fury of Allied bombing. Otto Carius, a famed panzer ace, finished the war in command of a company of these vehicles from the 512th Jagdpanzer Battalion. This unit surrendered to the Americans in the Ruhr pocket. More Aberdeen Proving Grounds Introduction German Jagdpanther German Jagdpanzer IV German Jagdtiger Russian SU-100 Vietnamese Modified T-34 German Sturmpanzer IV Brummbar (Grizzly Bear) Russian SU-76 German Marder III Back to Table of Contents The Messenger November 2002 Back to The Messenger List of Issues Back to MagWeb Magazine List © Copyright 2002 by HMGS/PSW. This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other articles covering military history and related topics are available at http://www.magweb.com