Possibly an M10, although they had light armor and were not that fast. But if I was in a tank against a tiger, I’d be in a M18. Fire a shot, move away at 50 mph (yeah, thats right, fifty). Get to a new or better firing position, strike again. Shoot and Scoot baby! [;)]
all you’d have to do is take your tank up around and according to odball in the movie kelly’s heroes “hti right in the a**”.
A tank that could take out the tiger would be the T-28 even though i think 2 were made and none ever saw combat. finescale did a model of it.
I am not sure you folks consider tank destoryers as tanks. If so, IMHO, the SU-100 and SU-152 both have a high chance to take on the Tiger. Their guns are lethal. Although their armour many not be able to stand a direct hit from the 88 mm gun, they enjoy low chassis body making them hard to get shot. The M-36 and M-26 90 mm gun also can take on the Tiger provide they don’t go on a head to head attack on to the Tiger, rather using ambush tactics. I’ve heard that most of the Tiger Tanks destoryed by US tanks were destoryed in city or urban area rather than open field. In fact, there were very few tanks that can stand a 88 mm round hit, probably except the JS-2. Therefore, for a good Allied tank(with at least 76mm gun of course) to take on a Tiger, ambush and suprise are the most important.
I agree with Tigerman. Any tank with a good high velocity gun -armour penetrating ammo AND with an advantaged postion can defeat a Tiger. It was not an invulnerable tank.
Even lightly armored tanks/destroyers like M36’s took out a number of Tigers during WWII so did Sherman Fireflies and T34-85’s.
JS-2’s and Pershings were more or less a match for the Tiger.
More importantly, the worst enemy of the Tiger is itself. Many of them were lost prior to battle.
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ps that’s if we have any left after the government’s latest round of defence cuts!![:(!][#offtopic][soapbox]
…IL-2 Sturmovic… It was called the flying tank by the Germans…
Also the Flying Bathtub. It maneuvered like one, and it had this bathtub of armour surrounding the bottom of the cockpit. It was amazingly resisent to AA fire.