16 May 2015

Tiger, Tiger, burning bright

Rico's friend Kelley, also a military hardware junkie, forwards this video, with the comment that it's "an interesting discourse on the Tiger I tank, by a guy who goes by the handle of The Mighty Jingles:
He plays a lot of war simulator games, which he post videos of, and a lot of people send him their videos which he, in turn, posts and comments on. This is one of those. There's not a lot of shooting. It's a Tiger on the hunt and the terrain is supposed to be in the Carpathians. The light and shadows, the movement of trees and bushes, is beautiful. Throughout, TMJ discusses the Tiger, the rationale behind it, and why the US, for very sound reasons, never fielded anything capable to going toe-to-toe with it. While many could say that was incredibly stupid, but we won; go figure.
At the conclusion, he says that there are only six Tiger I tanks extant today, and only one of those is in running condition (in fact, completely restored) That's the Tiger you/we saw in Brad Pitt's Fury; and that film is the only one, ever, to have a genuine Tiger tank in it.



Rico says the post title is from a Blake poem...

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