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Old March 8th, 2009, 06:59 AM
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Default Re: King tiger turret armour

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Originally Posted by chuckfourth View Post
The front armour of the King tiger turret armour is wrong. it has a slope and shoud be 19 not 18. Assuming these are porsche not henchel turrets of course, and using
real thicknes/cos(angle) = notional thickness
The Tiger II front turret was 180mm sloped at 9 degrees. I cant get that to be more than 182-183mm, which, converted to centimeters and rounded off, will only give an armour thickness of 18 in SP terms.

Could you explain how you get it to be 19 instead?

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