Daily reminder that literally nothing could penetrate the King

My dick could.

>>2494119
*breaks down*

>>2494119
What if something went directly down the cannon?

>>2494119

Daily reminder that you could basically have a Tiger 2 by using something much older and cheaper called a "pillbox".

>>2494119
A pretty stormy thread.

>>2494179
That isn't penetrating it, that's avoiding it

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>>2494119
lol who cares

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>>2494119
Brit 17lb
Piat
5.9

It was only American weapons that could not penetrate the armour.

>>2494119
D-10T

>>2494354
not yet...

>>2494166
>>2494354
>>2494652
triggered

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>>2494119
>*out maneuvers behind you*
>nothing personnel kid

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>>2494119

assuming that tank's crew didn't burn up upon switching to first gear out of the factory, pic related would get it soon enough

>>2494119
High caliber HE shells would spall the fuck out of it and turn the crew into paste.

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Daily reminder that the T34 was objectively the best tank of the war.

>>2494773
I dont know, it was the best because they were high in numbers against the enemy. But somewhere id really hate to be using them in ww2 because the massive losses they had, total cannon fodder. I do NOT want to be a t34 tank crew in ww2

>German transmissions

The funniest joke of the entire war.

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>>2494119

>>2495053
I personally I prefer Japanese AA.

>>2494773
Daily reminder Russoboos are objectively wrong and the 76mm armed, HVSS equipped Shermans were the best tanks of the war.

>>2494119
>uses increasingly poor quality materials on tanks as the war goes on

>>2494119
17 pounders could and did, and 76mm apds could as well.

and any other high velocity AT gun if it didnt penetrate would cause lethal spalling due too shit tier german armor quality by the time the tiger II started being pushed off the production line and into the repair depots

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>>2494119

We imitated the King Tiger

>>2495238
German tehnology with superior nippon steel, whitu piggu even can't compete.

>>2495124
This

>>2495173
>17 pounders could and did, and 76mm apds could as well.
Literally no proofs. The only one to penetrate it frontally was a BS-3 in Soviet tests.

>>2494537
>Despite the wartime testing, there is no reliable evidence that the front armour of the King Tiger had ever been penetrated in combat.

>'but it was possible!'

>>2494119
Man, the sight of nazi germany heavy tanks make me think of that thing you bought online, drunk, and cost much more than you could afford and now you have it sitting in your living room and regret everything.

>>2495238
How many times did you fold that tank?

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>>2494119
The armor and gun were good, but otherwise the King Tiger was a piece of fucking rubbish.

>>2495534
This tank is made of only three sheets of paper.
Is not it amazing?

>>2494119
What about a 122mm AP?

>>2494686
Or an ISU-152 for that matter...

>>2495085
MUH PAGODAS

>>2494773
The American heavy, Calliope, or T-34 medium? huehuehuehuehue

>>2495267
FILTHY BURGERU YOU WIRR NEVER GET ON MY HOL*nuku droppu*oh no prease herp me rebuird

>>2495124
my favorite medium ever is the M4A3E8 desu

>>2495617
>I can imagine an NHK documentary on traditional origami chi-nu making
>>2495653
Don't talk shit about the pagodas dude. They look cool.

>>2495648
Awful, HEAT though has roughly equivalent penetration to a 100mm round from a BS-3 at 500 metres. Though a 122mm HE shell would be likely to mobility kill a Tiger II through spalling alone.

>>2495499
>nothing could penetrate it!!!
>stuff could penetrate it
>b-b-but nobody ever penetrated it in combat!!!!!!

The reliability was shit, the barrel was too long for use in urban combat, and you wouldn't have enough spare parts or fuel.

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>>2494119
>Daily reminder that literally nothing could penetrate the King Tiger's frontal armour.

What are the Line-of-sight thickness?

>>2494885
Only because of a lack of training.

>>2494675
*breaks down*

Get yourself a neutron source. Little bit of radiation couldn't hurt.

>>2494119
Sherman could

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>nothing could penetrate the King Tiger's frontal armour
Yes, of all 3 of them.

>>2495124
>sherman was thw best

>germans literally called them tommy cookers because they'd light up like a Christmas tree and roast everyone inside with a well placed panzerfaust

>>2494119
>Build a slab of armour on wheels
>Shit in every other department
LMAO NUFFIN COULD BENETRATE IT BEST TANK EVER

it doesnt matter if nothing could penetrate it, if nothing ever HAD to penetrate it

>>2494773

The sloped armor and relative ease of production/repair made them the best tank from a strategic viewpoint, super efficient; if you look at the kill/death ratios though, it's clear that either the German tanks were straight up better or their tank crews were way more skilled (or both).

>>2502856

Or that most tank losses weren't in fact caused by other tanks and that German ATGs were better at getting Soviet tanks in their sights than Soviet ATGs were at getting German tanks in theirs.

>>2494491
that looks dangerous hes so high up

>>2494675
*breaks down*

>>2494149
#boomgotem

>>2502856
>The sloped armor

Overmatching made it less effective than purely vertical armor or mildly sloped armor would have to the same trigonometric thickness would have

>>2494451
>giant flaw in frontal armor made obstesivly to provide a "firing" opportunity.

>>2494537
lol britbongs actually believe this

>>2494686
artillery caused the lowest proportion of tank kills. Stop playing video games faggot

>>2494491
>not two armwatches