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Originally Posted by Flanker35M
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Tiger I's KWK 88/L43 was more than enough to penetrate Allied tanks at ranges they could only dream of hitting; speaking of early Shermans, T34's etc.
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Sure, that's why I said "slightly". I just read L56.1 for that gun. Maybe the same as the Flak, I know the Flak didn't have a muzzle brake, but I don't know of anything else that's different between them.
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King Tiger and Jagdpanther got the new KWK 88/L71 that punched thru anything Allies had to throw at them even farther out with more power.
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Yeah, but by that time the allies were responding.
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Even the 75mm KWK was a very effective gun used on later models of Panzer IV and Panther for example. A former member of LLv34 had a grandparent that was a tanker in East front and according to him the problem was not killing the Russian tanks but the amount of them rushing at you.
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Hm, as I said the allies were responding, by that time the T34/85, the JS2, were coming into service, and in the west, Sherman-firefly.
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As of land combat in IL-2, it has a ton of flaws..with tanks having tracking speed of a modern Abrams, not being destroyed by a 500kg bomb landing next to them etc.
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I don't know about that, I don't try to work out what's going on with tanks in IL*2. Tanks are very tough by design, a bomb would have to be very close to destroy one, you could probably turn some tanks over without destroying them (if their own ammunition didn't go off from falling inside them).