Editing Tiger II (section)

==Production==
The Tiger II was developed late in the war and built in relatively small numbers. Orders were placed for 1,500 Tiger IIs—slightly more than the 1,347 Tiger I tanks produced—but production was heavily disrupted by Allied bombing raids.<ref name="Manchester68-498">Manchester 1968, p. 498.</ref> Among others, five raids between 22 September and 7 October 1944 destroyed 95 percent of the floor area of the Henschel plant. It is estimated that this caused the loss in production of  657 Tiger IIs.<ref name="J&D17">Jentz and Doyle 1993, p. 17.</ref> Only 492 units were produced: one in 1943, 379 in 1944, and 112 in 1945. Full production ran from mid-1944 to the end of the war.<ref name="Jentz96-288">Jentz 1996, p. 288.</ref> Each Tiger II cost 321 500 Reichsmark.<ref>PAWLAS, Karl R. Waffen-Revue W 127 - Datenblätter für Heeres-Waffen, -Fahrzeuge und Gerät. Nurnberg : Publizistisches Archiv für Militär- und Waffenwessen, 1976. 248 p.</ref> The vehicle was the costliest German tank to produce at the time.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.tanks-encyclopedia.com/ww2/nazi_germany/Panzer-VI_Konigstiger.php|title=Panzer VI Ausf.B Königstiger (1944)|website=www.tanks-encyclopedia.com|language=en-US|access-date=2018-11-12|archive-date=2019-08-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190816123544/http://www.tanks-encyclopedia.com/ww2/nazi_germany/Panzer-VI_Konigstiger.php|url-status=live}}</ref>

The Tiger II served as the basis for one production variant, the ''[[Jagdtiger]]'' [[casemate]]d tank destroyer,<ref name="Schneider19"/> and a proposed [[Grille&nbsp;(artillery)|''Grille'']] 17/21/30/42 self-propelled mount for heavy guns which never reached production.{{cn|date=January 2024}}