rexford Posted August 6, 2002 Share Posted August 6, 2002 Mobius on the Yahoo!Tankers site has posted some really good photo's of a captured IS-2 with armor thicknesses stencilled on. Sites are: http://www.panzer-war.com/images/js2.jpg http://www.panzer-war.com/images/is2_fronttop.jpg http://www.panzer-war.com/images/is2_reartop.jpg Turret front is 100mm, mantlet varies from 110mm to 70mm, 105mm at 30 degrees driver plate and 95mm at 30 degrees lower hull front. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ari Maenpaa Posted August 6, 2002 Share Posted August 6, 2002 Interesting pictures, thanks. I noticed that there are also other compelling pics in the same image directory. For instance: http://www.panzer-war.com/images/Verskraft.jpg - a comparison table between some tank guns. http://www.panzer-war.com/images/Pantherhits1.jpg and http://www.panzer-war.com/images/Pantherhits2.jpg - Panthers which have taken some 90mm punishment. Maybe one of the Germans here can translate the captions. + couple of penetration tables, scanned sheets of metallurgy analysis and such stuff. Ari Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K_Tiger Posted August 6, 2002 Share Posted August 6, 2002 Nice Pictures..! Would be from interesst wich Steelplates they used for testing purposes. Must be one of the harder ones. Fly`s with only 110mm at 100m also for the Panthers 140mm...seems a bit low. Also the typo 122mm for the JTiger caliber is wrong. Uhm..saw it to late...at 60 degree!! But still a bit to low at 100m. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tools4fools Posted August 7, 2002 Share Posted August 7, 2002 The caption with the broken turret armor says that flawed armor cracked even if the armor itself wasn't penetrated by the hit. Other statements are that only 90mm was able to penetrate and that even on non penetrations the color (inside) caught fire where the tank was hit. Marcus **** Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John D Salt Posted August 7, 2002 Share Posted August 7, 2002 Originally posted by K_Tiger: [snips] Uhm..saw it to late...at 60 degree!! But still a bit to low at 100m....recalling, of course, that when Germans talk about armour sloped at 60 degrees, they mean 60 degrees from the horizontal. All the best, John. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K_Tiger Posted August 8, 2002 Share Posted August 8, 2002 Hi John.. you r right, then 90 degrees are a vertikal plate in german therms. So im again wrong, 60 degrees must double the penetration value of the plate, so the penetraton datas from this table is to high, or?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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