GT101 1150hp Turboshaft & the Tiger II Hull: What the Sources Actually Say

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TL;DR: Compatibility between GT101 and the Tiger II hull is plausible engineering-wise, but every physical installation on record for both the Sla.16 diesel and the GT101/Porsche turbine happened in a Jagdtiger, not a gun-turreted King Tiger.

Sources

  • Kay, German Jet Engine and Gas Turbine Development 1930-45 (Crowood, 2002), p.157-158 — primary technical account of GT101 development and the Panther/Jagdtiger installation decision.

  • Tank Museum, Bovington — “Gas Turbine Jagdtiger” (Fletcher)

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2. If this is to prove anything concrete we need more information
Documentation on this is thin, Thinner then the Sla.16 if anyone has archival sources (BIOS Final Report No. 98, “German Development of Gas Turbines for Armoured Fighting Vehicles,” is known to exist but I haven’t found it digitized anywhere), drop them here and if you have any information to add to this please drop it below.

3. The Sla.16 parallel of hull contradiction stories
The in-game Tiger II (Sla.16) is often cited as precedent, but it has the identical documentation problem: some sources (WT wiki) claim it was tested in a Tiger II, others (Tank Archives, Tanks Encyclopedia) call that a myth and say the real test vehicle was a Jagdtiger, since Nibelungenwerk built Jagdtigers in-house and it shared the same engine bay. So Sla.16 isn’t proof Tiger II got engine swaps historically, it’s the same disputed pattern repeating.

4. Historical parallel to other cases
Similar hull/variant mix-ups exist elsewhere per example the T-34-88 was dismissed as a myth for decades until an archival AFV registry entry confirmed it, and the Raseiniai KV-1/KV-2 identification has long been disputed. Worth keeping in mind that documentation gaps ≠ proof either way.

My un-asked opinion on this?
As much i am biased towards wanting a Tiger II with 1150hp current evidence only supports the Jagdtiger case, Yes in gaijin logic the Tiger II (H) GT101 could be added since the contradictory mess of the sla.16 exists already, But honestly don’t know.

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You’d have to find alot of information for that what doesn’t exist. The only tanks that could most likely get the gt101 would be panther 2 and jagdtiger who both either tested it or had it planned

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I don’t know bro the snail works in strange ways

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putting 1150ps into a tiger 2 would throw it up to 7.3 or even 7.7. Considering the current tiger 2s are a comfortable 7.0 vehicle that struggles at 6.7 from bad players it would be one of the worst performing pinatas in the games history

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Since the Tiger II (H) Kwk L/68 10.5cm sits at 7.0 with 796hp and 10.5cm, this one could realistically push the Tiger II (H) to 7.3 or 7.0, I just wanted to lay out the information that exists to make it easier to find and raise awareness of this modification. But as I said, the snail works in strange ways predicting BR placements for vehicles is doomed to failure.

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legacy content that’s under tiered for its performance vs the rest of the vehicles around. shouldnt be used as a baseline.

its cool that the germans were looking for ways to make their moronic uneconomical designs work at least somewhat though

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Well the gas turbine idea wasn’t liked by the high command tbh so it never went anywhere but that one jagdtiger fitting if it was real (Porsche lied a lot post war so it’s unknown)

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You can’t prove a negative. Your goal is to prove the positive. The existence of. You cannot start from proving the non existence of a thing. Logic 101.

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