German Tiger Tank
Could the 17 Pounder Gun Penetrate any area of a Tiger 1 or 2 Tank or Panther Tank?
I know there would be a greater chance of penetration from rear or sides of later German Tanks than a frontal hit. Does anyone know stand off ranges, or Penetration Table. Thankyou Mark F and others for all you input.
I'm a little PO'd right now. After spending a half hour formulating one of my typically brilliant and insightful answers YA freaken locked up and erased it all!
It's late so this is the short version.
The 17-pounder with APCBC could reliably penetrate a Tiger 1 pretty much when and where it wanted to. I have seen video of a captured Tiger being penetrated through the ride side sponson armor, all the way through the tank and out the other side. Except when it exited the plate welds failed and the entire right side sponson armor was blown right off the tank!
Yes, it was totally cool.
Theoretically the Panther glacis could be penetrated out to 800 yards but tests on captured Panthers in the summer of 1944 showed 200 yards was a more reliable figure. The lower nose plate could be penetrated out to about 400 yards. With early pre-production APDS the figures roughly doubled. Side hits and turret hits from any angle were apparently no problem at most useful combat ranges. Side penetrations usually caused the tank to burn. Even the 6-pounder could penetrate the Panther from the side at over 1,000 yards.
All of this is somewhat theoretical of course. The test range is not battle, even if you are shooting at real tanks instead of test plate under ideal conditions which may not represent your likely targets at all. Ammunition and armor quality could be highly variable in wartime. Late production Panthers for example were notorious for having armor that was prone to cracking to the point of complete failure, even from non-penetrating HE hits. The Soviet's reported that King Tiger's suffered severe spalling and cracked welds from non-penetrating large-caliber hits where earlier German tanks did not.
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