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And actually the Pak 40 should have slightly better penetration data than the KwK 40 / StuK 40, because of a larger cartridge case.
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Careful there - the KwK/StuK case was shorter, but fatter; the basic idea was to get the exact same performance in a package that fit in the turret of the Pz IV.
That didn't quite work out, supposedly due to extraction problems caused by overpressure.
But note that data for the PaK 40 is also inconsistent, with late war tests generally showing worse performance for no adequately explained reason.
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Unit number 376 (Tiger tank) has a front turret armour of 16. ALl the other Tigers have 12. I`m not a Tiger specialist but I didn`t knew that they increased the armour during production, but maybe I`m wrong.
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Not sure about armor thickness as a whole, but I know late production used a monocular instead of a binocular gunsight (thus one less hole in the armor) and reinforced the armor around it.