2). Wait what’s this? Another report on the
Sunday, May 11, 2014
Tanks, tanks, tanks
1). I’m going
to write something on the US M4 Sherman tank
and whether it was a deathtrap or a war-winner (or somewhere
in between).
2). Wait what’s this? Another report on theBest
tank of WWII, ehm I mean the Soviet T-34 tank? Hmmm I guess I’ll have
to copy it. It should be easy as it’s only 456 pages…
2). Wait what’s this? Another report on the
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Anything else you can put about the "god tank" (t-34) would be nice, its a shame that now thanks to Russian war games like Wot we hear about how crummy the Panther and Tiger tanks are and no one has any info except the "glorious type" from a certain government about the t-34 and IS-2. There was an examination of the IS-2 where the armor quality was determined to be horrible pieces literately broke off the front of the vehicle during testing I only have a bit of an except of that unfortunately also interestingly while paging through Panzertruppen I found a reference in there to some of these t-34's armor being composed of 2 steel plates of steel with pig-iron and other filler sandwiched in between.
ReplyDeleteCheck the ‘Review of Soviet ordnance metallurgy:
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do you have any testing/evaluation of the IS-122 (IS-2)?
ReplyDeleteThe Germans had at least 1 wapruf "test" about its capabilities I would think the western allies and post war countries would be interested enough to conduct their own tests, unfortunately I haven't found anything that isn't "glorious"
The Germans certainly captured IS-2 tanks and must have tested them but I don’t have that report. On the quality of Soviet tank armor, check the ‘Review of Soviet ordnance metallurgy:
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‘The armor components of the T-34 tank, with the exception of the bow casting which was unheat-treated, were heat-treated to very high hardnesses (430-500 Brinell), probably in an attempt to secure maximum resistance to penetration by certain classes of armor-piercing projectiles even at the expense of structural integrity under ballistic attack.’
Etc etc