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plan_D - have you been to the bovington tank museum?
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plan_D said:The King Tiger was out-classed? Are you on drugs? The King Tiger had the greatest armour and armament of the war for any tank. It's 88mm cannon had the same penertration as the 122mm on the IS-2 because of German refining causing higher velocity.
The T-34 was seriously out-classed late in the war, you should learn a little more, study the penertration and armour values yourself, you'll soon see. The number of Soviet tanks was the winning factor, look at the ratio of tank losses on the Eastern Front. The King Tiger didn't serve well on the Eastern Front because it was easily swamped by numbers and being 68 tonnes it was too heavy for the poor roads and soft ground.
It was designed for the West, and it served very well in the West. The roads in the West could support the King Tiger, and it served unbelievebly well. Lack of supplies and inferior numbers were it's only downfall. You seem to have a severe disliking of German tanks, when in all reality they were the best of the war and nothing could match them one on one. :grab:
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