Author Topic: Give us this Tiger Killer (Read 4557 times)

Sooner00 · « **on:** December 06, 2005, 07:43:20 AM »

http://www.military.cz/panzer/index_en.htm

Armament: 122 mm Gun
Crew: 4
Armor (max.): 200 mm
Speed (max.): 40 km/hr
Dimensions: 6.67 x 3.20 x 3.43 m
Weight: 45.8 ton

SMIDSY · « **Reply #1 on:** December 06, 2005, 09:14:56 AM »

limited numbers and it was slow.

Sooner00 · « **Reply #2 on:** December 06, 2005, 10:49:04 AM »

The Tiger was in a limited number also, I have no idea of the numbers of either tank, but in Tank Town that 122 mm gun would be sweet.

SMIDSY · « **Reply #3 on:** December 06, 2005, 11:27:55 AM »

the problem is that the IS-3 was deployed in the low hundreds. also it was deployed in the final months of the war. however it was considered the best tank in the world up into the 1950s.

PS
good find on the site.

1K3 · « **Reply #4 on:** December 06, 2005, 05:00:22 PM »

This is the REAL Tiger killer

JS-2 tank

viper215 · « **Reply #5 on:** December 06, 2005, 08:57:09 PM »

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Originally posted by SMIDSY
limited numbers and it was slow.

122mm TURRET

Jester · « **Reply #6 on:** December 06, 2005, 10:38:36 PM »

Read the book PANZER ACES by Franz Kurowski. (Available at all your local "Buns & Noodles").

There are several combat reports in there of Tigers taking out the JS-2 & JS-3's just as easily as other Soviet Tanks. The 88mm main gun used on the Tiger series of tanks was most likely the best anti-armor gun of WW2.

1K3 · « **Reply #7 on:** December 07, 2005, 01:20:13 AM »

lol how about this, we get a King Tiger tank THEN we get the Joseph Stalin tank 3

It should be an interesting tank match-up.

damn those Stalin 3 tanks are beast!

captured JS-3 tank by Israelis

SMIDSY · « **Reply #8 on:** December 07, 2005, 02:01:36 AM »

i think we should have tank destroyers. but i have never had a problem taking out a tiger with an M8. all you have to do is take out the tracks, then go to work on the turret. then park next to it and blast untill he towers out or dies.

EDIT:
as i understand it, the IS-2 and IS-3 had the same main gun.

Sooner00 · « **Reply #9 on:** December 07, 2005, 08:40:42 AM »

That would be fun in tank town, someone pops out in a tiger, then a IS3 pops out to go after the tiger, then a King Tiger pops out, and kills both of them. Man those big guns going off will make the panzer's and T34's scurry like cockroaches.

Klum25th · « **Reply #10 on:** December 07, 2005, 04:12:52 PM »

YES we got a sooner fan in here. OU OU OU!!!

SMIDSY · « **Reply #11 on:** December 07, 2005, 05:17:56 PM »

another problem with the IS series was their intollerably low rate of fire. slower than the ingame reload time of the T34.

Jester · « **Reply #12 on:** December 07, 2005, 06:23:20 PM »

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Originally posted by SMIDSY
another problem with the IS series was their intollerably low rate of fire. slower than the ingame reload time of the T34.

Is the Ruskie 128mm tank round used in the JS Series Tanks & SU-122 Assault Gun a two-piece artillery type shell (seperate warhead and propellant charge) like the 128mm shells used in the JAGDTIGER?

If so might be there reason for their low rate of fire. That, or a one piece 128mm shell has got to be damn heavy! I have a 3" (76mm) practice AA Shell and it is damn heavy to lug around!

SMIDSY · « **Reply #13 on:** December 07, 2005, 08:18:27 PM »

the Jagdtiger used the 12.8 cm dual use AA gun. the big brother of the 88.

Sketch · « **Reply #14 on:** December 08, 2005, 12:36:47 PM »

Why does it matter how many there were produced? Does it really matter how popular a plane was or a GV? They all played a big roll, no matter how many victories they had.