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

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Originally Posted by Pursuivant

Yes and no. Even a small bomb could potentially be a tank killer if it hit in the right place (e.g., the PTAB bomblets). Large bombs increase the chance of a near miss injuring or killing crew due to overpressure, or damaging the tank or tipping it over.

On Otto Karius memories, they narrate a friendly fire situation with 21cm nebelwerfers firing on his position. Those rockets carry a 550 Kg HE warhead.
They can´t do anything but lay down with their hands on their ears during the bombardment. They feel the shock waves from explosions, but no damage was reported.

Air bombs on WWII were saturation weapons. Even rockets were employed that way.

Heavy canons, were an elite crew option. Also pilots disregard it's effects as failures.

Russian Ptab's, were a primitive solution also employed by the germans, but more dangerous to the aircraft than for the intended enemy.

The state of the art were the germans AB bombs. Tested on the field against medium armor with success. Heavys were not that frequent on russian assaults. On Kursk, KV1's were few and kept at the rear.

HE bombs will generate supression when not scoring a direct hit, damage will be achieved as something unusual.