OOB, is-2 and 3 armor

[Yurka]

Why is the Tiger have more that 100 mm front turret armor, but Is-2 only 100, in case it had 160 and Tiger only 100.. it's very strange and ahistorical
by the way, Is-3 had front hull armor about 230-250mm.

[Arralen]

Originally posted by Yurka:
Why is the Tiger have more that 100 mm front turret armor, but Is-2 only 100, in case it had 160 and Tiger only 100.. it's very strange and ahistorical
by the way, Is-3 had front hull armor about 230-250mm.

No way .. TigerZ rule !! 500mm at least !!

serious:

- we are working on the OOBs

- we try to verify the unit stats

- give sources if you can, or be quiet !

- before posting anything at all, search the old threads .. TigerI discussion has been there before ... more than enough.

Arralen

[Voriax]

Arralen, be polite

Even unsupported claims are allowed, although when they concern oob's I am more likely to ignore them


Yurka, find that long Tiger discussion. To give it short the Tiger has about 100-110mm turret thickness but there is also a gun shield that is bit thicker and covers almost whole turret front. Also the rest of the gun/turret are behind that shield adding to the effective protection level.

In previous oob set this value used to be 200mm but it was downgraded a bit.

As for IS-3..one often referred russian site: http://history.vif2.ru/ has drawings about it and there the front hull is only 120mm. Perhaps you are mixing it with the 'effective' armour thickness values that have the slope included?

For IS-2 it gives 90-100mm for turret and 120mm for hull.

Voriax



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[Arralen]

Originally posted by Voriax:
Arralen, be polite

Oh, Arralen never claims to be polite or nice or whatever.
His famous saying is "Flame me, and I'll flame you. Maybe I'll even flame you anyway."

If I find the time one day I'll put up his website, here's the logo already:



If I get serious, I'll use my real name.

Stefan


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There's no "Doesn't fit!" - you can always adjust the size of the hammer.


[This message has been edited by Arralen (edited October 13, 2000).]

[This message has been edited by Arralen (edited October 13, 2000).]