One Shot, No Turret: The Brutal Physics of Tank Warfare

Описание: In the claustrophobic hedgerows of Normandy, the battlefield belonged not to the fastest or the bravest, but to whoever fired first. Outnumbered and running on dwindling fuel, German Tiger tanks used the thick green walls of the bocage to unleash devastating ambushes against American Sherman columns.
This episode follows one of the most intense encounters of the Normandy campaign: a Sherman crew cut off from their unit, hunted by a Tiger, and forced to fight a machine that could kill them from three times their effective range. Against the odds, they turned the tables — not through superior firepower, but through a desperate tactical gamble and a perfect moment of opportunity.
We examine the real historical impact of the Tiger I: how 1,300 tanks created fear across millions of soldiers, how its armor and gun dominated the battlefield, and why its legend still overshadows the reality of its mechanical failures.
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SOURCES
• Allied intelligence reports on Tiger sightings
• German crew correspondence from schwere Panzer-Abteilung
• Normandy campaign analysis — U.S. Army
• Steven Zaloga — Armored Thunderbolt
• War diaries of Tiger commanders
• Sherman vs Tiger comparative tests