thought some of you guys might like this. the russians captured a king tiger, took it over to a testing ground and shot the living crap out of it. (makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside just looking [:D]) here’s the results:
http://battlefield.ru/library/weapons7_r.html
the page is in russian but there’s a few pictures that speak for themselves.
Thanks for the link. From what I was able to read, the KT was hit by 100mm and 122mm shells at about 400 meters. I’ll have to dig out my dictionary and do some more translating.
Most interesting. Some of the pictures look like “ballistics research and development” while others look like “sour grapes”.
theres some good photos on that site but on the Tiger 2 shoot the siht out of it test
you have to take it with a pinch of salt, stick a tank in a field and shoot everything at it at the same point, theres going tobe stress points start on anything
image captions:
32 hole: 122mm AP from 1500 meters
23 hole: 100mm ap
25 hole: 88mm AP from 400 meters
second 25 hole pictures: exit hole from 88mm AP from 400 meters.
didn’t bother reading the main text.
now, in addition to the research, i’m thinking the russian engineers in charge of this had a whole lot of fun watching it blow up
Great site thanks goatmonkey. Gotta new picture for my list of damaged tanks. [:D]