The Tiger I is perhaps the most feared tank in history, its powerful 88 mm gun and thick armour making it a nightmare for Allied crews whose shells often bounced off its frontal plate while it destroyed them from a distance.
Heavy, expensive and mechanically temperamental, only around 1,300 were built — yet the Tiger's fearsome reputation gave rise to 'Tiger fright' and cemented its place as the definitive heavy tank of the Second World War.
