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The VK 30 series were 30-35 tonne class tank designs. VK 30.01 (H)-Henschel design for 30-tonne breakthrough tank, two prototypes built. Two hulls were later reused as Sturer Emil. VK 30.01 (P) - Porsche design for 30-tonne tank. VK 30.01 (D) - Daimler-Benz design for a 30-tonne tank. [citation needed]
At the beginning of 1937, the Weapon Testing Office (Wa Prüf 6) of the German Army's Ordnance Office (Heereswaffenamt) contracted with Henschel & Son (chassis) and Krupp (turret) for a 30-tonne (29.5-long-ton; 33.1-short-ton) heavy breakthrough (Durchbruchswagen) tank with 50-millimetre (2 in) armor on the front and sides of the hull and the turret.
The VK 45.01 (P), also informally known as Tiger (P) or Porsche Tiger, was a heavy tank prototype designed by Porsche in Germany.With a dual engine gasoline-electric drive that was complex and requiring significant amounts of copper, it lost out to its Henschel competitor on trials, it was not selected for mass production and the Henschel design was produced as the Tiger I.
The VK 30.01 (D) and VK 30.02 (D), also known as VK.3001 (DB) were two tank designs made by Daimler Benz submitted for the VK 30 project for a 30 tonne tank to be used by the German army. The Versuchskonstruktion 30.01 (D) and 30.02 (D), in English "experimental design 30 tonnes Daimler", [ a ] was intended to counter the Soviet T-34 and ...
12.8 cm Selbstfahrlafette auf VK 30.01(H) "Sturer Emil" - tank destroyer; ... - Porsche Tiger tank; ... O-I super-heavy tank design in the 120-ton range. Exact stage ...
On 26 May 1941, Henschel and Ferdinand Porsche were asked to submit designs for a 45-tonne heavy tank, to be ready by June 1942. [21] Porsche worked on an updated version of their VK 30.01 (P) Leopard tank prototype while Henschel worked on an improved VK 36.01 (H) tank.
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The engine for the original 30-ton Panther project was the Maybach HL210 P30, [171] while the 45-ton specification for the Tiger received the HL210 P45. [167] The main visible difference was the arrangement of the coolant ducts exiting the cylinder heads, since the Panther and Tiger had different flows through their radiators.