A Tiger tank was somehow at the perfect height to take the full impact of a shot from another tank, but had that turret been a fraction of an inch higher, lower, or not perpendicular to the incoming round that we can see put a hole in it, I think that the round might have ricocheted instead.
Mostly due to the diameter of the turret, and the incident angle that a fraction of an inch high or lower would have placed at the leading tip of the impacting round
https://ritkanlathatotortenelem.blog.hu/2019/04/21/napi_erdekes_671
1944. M4A1 Sherman tank on the Italian front
https://ritkanlathatotortenelem.blog.hu/2016/05/08/napi_erdekes_861
Barrels are not easy to pierced, kinetic power of round that did that must be enormous. And that was a solid round right there.
ReplyDeleteupdate... I just found a 2nd tank, this time a Sherman ... so, one for the axis, one for the allies
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