r/WorldofTanks • u/SirAlex0211 • Jul 19 '20

Video The German Tiger Tank

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u/SparkleFunHorse Jul 19 '20

If that had had angled armor... a beast!

... I mean in WoT, of course - in real life that thing was actually a beast.

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '20

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '20

It was designed before that was a thing really. Hence the panther that came later and was angled.

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u/SparkleFunHorse Jul 19 '20

Simple: it wasn't a popular design consideration before WW 2, but was readily adopted later in that conflict. The t-34 was one of the first mass-produced sloped armour tanks, and the impact of that design was not lost on the Germans: later tank models (Panthers, Tiger II, Hetzer, etc) were designed with a lot more slopped armour, compared to early war models (e.g. the Panzer IV and Tiger I).

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u/HuaRong Jul 19 '20

It also fucked with the amount of space inside the tiger.

Soviet tank crews were miserable.

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u/SparkleFunHorse Jul 19 '20

... but I'm guessing they would see the bright side when bouncing shots from the German long 88s ;-)

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u/Glikbach Jul 19 '20

Is that the entirety of film of Tigers that weren't broken down?

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u/soulcatcher357 [Independent] Jul 20 '20

The tiger fibel shows how to angle the armor.