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Originally Posted by Cosmic Eagle
Turret is generally the weakest armoured of any tank...most thinly at the top. That's why gunners aimed at the turret if possible, so Tiger II being penetrated from front at turret is not surprising.
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Not really, normally the gun mantlet is the best armoured part of a tank (by thicness or by a good ballistic shape) because is the main aiming point for the enemy gunners. The latest german tanks (König Tiger and Panther ausf F) had an small turret´s frontal secction and a cilindrical mantlet (saukopf - boar's head) that made it a difficult target to hit and more difficult to pierce (the best modern analogy is the Merkava tank).
Oviously, the german tanks still were vulnerable on the sides (like all the tanks) and rear part (hull and turret)
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Originally Posted by 4tran
The 90mm is only about equal to the 88mm L56 of the Tiger I. The 88mm L71 of the Tiger II is a cut above that. The 100mm should be better than the 90mm, but just a hair shy of the 88mm L71 (the main difference should be accuracy).
The Allied gun with the best penetration that was commonly fielded should be the 17-pounder firing APDS ammo.
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All the quote is true, but the accuracy of the APDS (Armour Piercing, Discarding Sabot) of 17 pounder, the true Tiger killer was bad
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