Monday 20 January 2020

How to Kill a Tiger

There were many guides on how to take out Tiger tanks printed in the Red Army. I've shown two of them here, but this one is a lot more detailed.


Turret and upper hull side:
  • 45 mm model 1937 gun with a subcaliber shot from 200 meters.
  • 45 mm model 1942 gun with a subcaliber shot from 400 meters.
  • 57 mm gun with an armour piercing shell from 1000 meters.
  • 76 mm gun with a subcaliber shot from 400 meters.
  • 76 mm AA gun with an armour piercing shell from 300 meters.
  • 85 mm AA gun with an armour piercing shell from 1500 meters.
  • 122 mm gun with an armour piercing shell from over 1500 meters.
Tracks: artillery of all calibers with any type of shell. 

Front:
  • 76 mm gun with a subcaliber shot from point-blank range.
  • 85 mm AA gun with an armour piercing shell from 1000 meters.
  • 122 mm gun with an armour piercing shell from 1500 meters.
  • 76 and higher HE-fragmentation shells can break through the roof.


Gun: 45 or 57 mm guns: AP shell. Any other guns fire any shell from any range that can hit.

Back of the turret: same data as for the side of the turret.

Turret: anti-tank rifle to jam

Rear tracks: artillery of all calibers with any type of shell firing at any range that can hit.

Lower side:
  • 45 mm gun with a subcaliber shot from 300 meters.
  • 57 mm gun with an armour piercing shell: any distance.
  • 76 mm model 1942 (ZIS-3) gun and similar with a subcaliber shot from 500 meters.
  • 76 mm AA gun with an armour piercing shell from 500 meters.
  • 85 mm AA gun with an armour piercing shell from 2000 meters.
  • 122 mm model 1931 gun from any distance.

4 comments:

  1. For the Upper side the 45 mm gun is mentioned 2 times with a different penetration distance. Do i miss some important detail ?

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    1. That's my mistake, the one with the greater distance is the model 1942 gun with a higher muzzle velocity.

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  2. I would have thought the Tiger turret (mantlet, 120 mm) would have been distinguishable from the front hull (100 mm, very little slope) in penetration resistance even if the mantlet were cast.

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  3. The interesting is note about the 76 HE which could brake the roof. It should be especially for those who admire the design where the final drive is in opposite end to engine.

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