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Unlike other German tanks which used face-hardened armor, the Tiger used homogeneous armor (armor with a uniform hardness throughout the thickness) for the main armor plates. These plates had a high content of chromium and molybdenum, but also carbon (an impurity which makes welding more difficult).
This authentic English translation includes the main text of the original “Tigerfibel”, and a sizeable appendix of armor intelligence & armor penetration charts.
29 Σεπ 2023 · This booklet was assigned the official publication number of D656/27 and given the name Tigerfibel, which means Tiger primer. The task of writing the new training manual was assigned to Leutnant Josef von Glatter-Goetz.
14 Σεπ 2019 · The plan had been for a tank with sloping (55 deg.) armor 80 mm thick across the glacis, and the same thickness across the sides and rear.
The armor of the Tiger, at the time of its appearance, was the thickest ever to be fitted on any German tank, the front vertical plate being 102 mm thick and the hull sides 62 mm.
In May 1941 the German general staff had demanded a new Kampfwagen Kanone (Tank Gun) specification for the Tiger; it had to be capable of penetrating 140 mm thick armor at a range of 1,000 meters, without specifying that the caliber had to be 88mm.
20 Ιαν 2022 · 214 pages 29 cm. Originally published as Die deutschen Panzer 1926-45. München (Munich), Lehmann, 1968. Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-214)
