Given the slow reload time of the T34 gun, the 85 mm of the late war should be available and not be perked, since if you miss or only take out an engine or track, then you had better run, because the amount of time it takes to reload is near the same as it takes a Tiget to rotate it's turret.
The 85mm is more on par with the Tigers' 88 mm and really would only allow a small advantage, since armor and other specifications remain more or less the same.
85mm 215 S-53 or D-5T gun , 55 rounds of ammunition (pick your shots)
"At the end of August, a conference was held at Factory #112. It was attended by the People's Commissar for Tank Industry V.A.Malyshev, Commander of Tank and Mechanized Troops of the Red Army Ya.N.Fedorenko, and ranking members from the People's Commissariat for Armaments. In his introduction, V.A.Malyshev noted that the victory at the Battle of Kursk cost the Red Army a high price:
"Enemy tanks opened fire on ours at distances of up to 1,500 metres, while our 76 mm tank guns could destroy "Tigers" and "Panthers" at distances of only 500-600 metres. Imagine the enemy has a kilometer and a half in his hands, while we have only half a kilometer. A more powerful gun needs to be put into the T-34 quickly."
In actual fact, the situation was significantly worse than Malyshev painted it, though attempts to correct the situation had been undertaken at the beginning of 1943.
As early as the 15th of April, the GOKO, reacting to the appearance of the new German tanks on the Soviet-German front, published order #3187ss (the "ss" suffix means top secret) "Measures for improving anti-tank defenses." This required the GAU (Glavnoye Artilleriiskoye Upravleniye, Chief Artillery Directorate) to put all tank and anti-tank guns then in mass production through range trials, and present findings all within a 10 day period. In accordance with this order, Deputy Commander of Tank and Mechanized Forces Lieutenant-General V.M.Korobkov ordered that a captured "Tiger" be used for the trials, which were conducted from 25 to 30 April at the NIIBT (Nauchno-issledovatel'skii Institut Bronetankovoi Tekhniki, Armored Vehicle Research and Development Institute) proving grounds at Kubinka. The trial results were of little comfort. The 76 mm armored-piercing tracer round for the F-34 gun did not penetrate the German tank's side even as close as 200 metres! The most effective weapon for dealing with the enemy's new heavy tank turned out to be the 85mm 52-K anti-aircraft gun model 1939. It penetrated the 100 mm frontal armor at distances up to 1,000 metres. "
Excerpts are from the
http://www.battlefield.ru/t34_85.htmlA look at the specifications and armor penetration values
http://www.battlefield.ru/guns/defin_4.htmlI for one am not surprised at the relative invulnerability of the Tiger, when faced with the T34 mounting the 76mm gun.
Just imagine what will happen if/when they field the Sherman with the low velocity 75mm gun
