One could argue the same of any other updated WWII design.
An updated WWII design of the Tiger II would more likely be based on the Entwicklung series
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entwicklung_series
One could argue the same of any other updated WWII design.
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The 1A1 still had the original roundish cast turret and no applique plates, but had the rubber skirts, the armor upgrades resulting in the 1A2 didn't happen till the early '70s.
So you had 35mm on the upper hull sides, 25mm lower and 15mm on the hull floor, and 60 on the turret sides. That's not good for mines and the B-60/RPG-6
The M41 had 38mm on the Hull floor in the fighting compartment
An updated WWII design of the Tiger II would more likely be based on the Entwicklung series
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entwicklung_series
The Bundeswehr wasn't a mass conscript army, they had 12 divisions and were considered the best trained army of the Cold War, so were much more in line with von Seeckt's idea for a post-WW1 highly mobile, highly efficient army than a Soviet style mass army.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundeswehr#Cold_War_1955.E2.80.931990
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The 1A1 still had the original roundish cast turret and no applique plates, but had the rubber skirts, the armor upgrades resulting in the 1A2 didn't happen till the early '70s.
So you had 35mm on the upper hull sides, 25mm lower and 15mm on the hull floor, and 60 on the turret sides. That's not good for mines and the B-60/RPG-6
The M41 had 38mm on the Hull floor in the fighting compartment
According to the wiki article which is very short on references and I am struggling to find other stuff, the 1a1a1 got more turret armour in 1973, the 1a2 got a new turret with more armour, the 1a3 got the welded spaced armour. But wtf does this mean in practice; that the 70mm figure was obsolete by 1973? If so what are the figures in the 70s?