Happy New year all ,
Saw this site and thought of all you loons who , like me crave any info on WW2 they can find
I have seen many arguements over the years about which gun penetrated this or that better than the axis or allies etc and whilst its possible to discover gems of info here and there I have never seen so much info about the various guns seen in WW2 in one place! as I have seen at this website:
http://www.tarrif.net/cgi/production/all_penetration_adv.php?op=show_pen&penX=40Put it this way, I went to print out the info on this site to read later and it said i needed 35 sheets of A4!!!
thats some chart!
Hope this is of interest to you
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Btw, its worth checking out the various differences between the firefly's 17 pounder and the Tigers 88mm and the much vaunted 75mm on the Panther V.Saw this statement about this very thing in a section of a website that led me to find this great source of info.
"17 pdr AP was inferior to the Tiger I's 88mm L/56 APBBC, but not by much, and certainly worse than the 75 mm L/70(PantherV), but this (older) round was designed for use against homogeneous armour. The APCBC round penetrated about 176 mm of 90 degree homogenous plate at 500 yds, much better than either. Forget German 88mm or 75 mm APCR - it was rare or nonexistent by then. 17 pdr APDS was issued in small batches for trials in August 1944 and most early rounds were of sub-standard quality so that performance was erratic. It was never a particularly accurate round either. It became more plentiful after September 1944 - veterans have mentioned having between 5 and 10 rounds apiece with orders not to 'waste' it on targets vulnerable to more conventional rounds.
At most combat ranges US 90 mm APCR was slightly better than 17 pdr APDS but US documents state it only arrived in March 1945"
