Yak-9T - incredible firepower (or maybe incredible tank's lack of armor?)

[Pursuivant]

Originally Posted by Pershing

Fresh example of Yak-9T's "multikill"

If nothing else, it seems that the late war heavy tanks need to be seriously up-armored and/or need a higher threshold for the sort of guns that can damage them. I could imagine a Pzkw IV or a StuG (based on the PZkw IV chassis) being taken out by a lucky hit from a 37mm gun, but not anything based on the Tiger, Panther or Josef Stalin design.