Restoration of a King Tiger

[me6_130]

Just a question/observation the picture of the turret shows the barrel with a threaded
short stub, were the king tiger, panther and other very long barrels in two pieces?

I don't know if it's normal but seems the original one was cut or broken. There is a vid showing how they removed the barrel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7go-GwROYzA&t=35


Carles

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Just a question/observation the picture of the turret shows the barrel with a threaded
short stub, were the king tiger, panther and other very long barrels in two pieces?

All to do with the variation of wear on the rifling of the gun. The flack 88 was also a multi unit barrel. At least the latter version was. Precision engineering at its best when you consider you are threading two sections together, complete with locking collar AND registering the internal rifling at the same time.

I believe that it was only the 88MM that had this construction and not the long 75mm.

Regards

Tim