The 90 mm M3 gun of the Pershing was similar to the German 88 mm KwK 36 used on the Tiger I.
still lay ahead, as German bazooka, In mid-March, 1945, fresh from gunnery trials in the United
Let’s see how the U.S. fares in this contest.And here is the Pershing getting blown up…no I’m kidding! The M26 Pershing is the tank that is firing its main gun. But, like the KV-1 in the previous article, the King was using an anti-aircraft gun, so the King still had a pretty big gun too. But the shot, a non-armor-piercing high Even more remarkable, it had penetrated 13 inches of armor at 100 yards. Unknown to its crew, a King Tiger had The M26 Pershing was designed to fight the heaviest armor the Germans fielded, be it Tiger or Panther. street, passing the lifeless and burning King Tiger.
Super Pershing The Pershing before being converted to the up-armored so-called Super Pershing. was heavily defended.
Plus, the gun was bigger than the King Tiger’s, which allowed the Pershing to penetrate the King’s armor. And we are comparing the king of them all, the Tiger II heavy main battle tank. So even though it was used in World War II, the Pershing saw more action in the Korean War.
The Super Pershing (aka T26E4-1) was equipped with a new long-barreled T15E1 90mm gun that was designed to out-perform the German high-velocity 88mm on the King Tiger. almost instantly with a round that struck the Tiger's huge angled
a corner to its right. And just like the Tiger, the King Tiger used the 88mm KwK 43 L/71 anti-aircraft gun. In testing, this new U.S. gun had successfully penetrated 8.5 inches of armor at 1,000 yards at 30 degrees. The 3AD had begun a four-pronged attack on the city, which "AP! which meant an armor-piercing shell would be next.But there was no time to examine their "trophy."
It would be even less of a match for the Tiger II’s KwK 43. I’d like to chalk this one up to the Pershing, only because it was to be used as a basis for future tanks, giving it some sort of longevity. At Dessau on April 21 st 1945, a T-26 Super Pershing exchanged rounds with a 77 ton King Tiger tank and destroyed in at 50 yards.
shell, of the type that had destroyed so many American tanks apparently been waiting in ambush at a distance of two blocks It looks like we’re going into Rocky IV for this one, though Rocky faced a Russian, not a German.Here we have the king of the beasts, the Tiger II, or as the Germans called it, the The King Tiger comes in weighing at 76.9 tons, so like its predecessor the Tiger I, it could only travel and fight on certain terrains.
The King Tiger, though, is still King of the Tanks during World War II, but I’ll let you decide and hit me up with a comment on which one you think wins!
The next day the T-26 destroyed a Mk. ", he shouted to his loader "Pete," The Pershing also had 115mm thick armor on its front, not thick by the King’s standards, but thick enough to handle any other tank’s gun. and vehicles during the war, went high and was not even close. The first round, an HE round, bounced off the Tigers hull. The Super Pershing had On to the numbers!The Pershing has a weigh in of 46.1 tons, making it light for a heavy battle tank, which gives it some menuverability on all terrains. Battalion of the 3rd Armored Division.
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