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Saturday
24Jun2006

Tiger Reincarnated

DateSaturday, June 24, 2006 at 03:33PM

During World War II, the Hungarian army received 13 German Tiger I tanks.  The vehicles served in two companies attached to the 2nd Hungarian Armored Division and they were lost in the fierce battles that raged through Hungry in late 1944.  Post-war scrap dealers picked up where Soviet guns left off, and no relics of the Hungarian Tigers remain.

 62 years later a full scale replica German Tiger tank  has been built in Hungry.  The reincarnated Tiger weighs in at 7 metric tons and is powered by a 100 hp engine.  Video clips and photos of the Hungarian Tiger I replica  can be found on www.tiger1.hu.

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