Othervise it’s kinda weird that there is no suggestion for it. Would be nice to have in my Maus line-up right next to the 12,8 cm JT, and the Kugelblitz.
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It’s hard to say. There are rumors that a few Jagdtigers were armed with 88mm guns, but beyond rumors… there’s nothing, lol.
In practice, it’s quite possible, considering the difficulty of producing 128mm guns, but there are no photos/documents to confirm this.
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Well I guess no 8 second reload Jagdtiger then.
"On 25th February 1945, ‘extreme measures’ were ordered by Hitler to increase production of the Jagdtiger, which included the temporary expedient of fitting an 8.8 cm gun (the 8.8 cm KwK. Pak. 43/3) in lieu of the 12.8 cm piece if there were insufficient 12.8 cm guns available.
April production lists serial number 305082 to 305088, another 7 vehicles, and then 305089 to 305098 (10 vehicles), with just 3 delivered. Some of these were supposed to be fitted with the 8.8 cm gun under Sonderkraftfahrzeug number Sd.Kfz.185. "
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These are official factory documents about the production of Jagdtigers with the 8.8cm, it’s not known if they were issued to the troops or even completed. I think that they were either finished or in production at the end of the war and then destroyed by an air raid or by the germans to avoid capture.
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Interesting. Also why did they delete the Jagdpanzer 38 ts from the 3. point of the document?
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I wish I had an answer to that 🤷♂️
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Thx for clearing that . Also I have to say, I admire how well researched your posts are :).
Maybe because they wanted to switch to 38 (d).
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