The commander s cupola had all around 14 5 mm of armor with the two hatch doors being 8 mm thick.
Panzer4 turret roof armor thickness.
The thickness of the front plates on the turret and the weapon mantlet was 50 mm and this thickness was not increased in future upgrades.
50 mm 2 0 in turret side and rear.
Increasing the turret front armour to about 10 inches would probably suffice.
The last 68 ausf.
10 mm 0 39 in.
30 mm 1 2 in turret roof.
Pig s head style mantlet.
J were produced without face hardened armor and the superstructure roof was thickened to 16 mm.
Spaced armor that is not sloped is generally designed to provide protection from explosive.
The frontal turret armor plate thickness consisted of 120mm at 20 degrees 60mm on the sides and rear at 25 degrees 40mm flat on the roof and 150mm of cast armor on the saukopf english.
Hull roof and floor.
The front turret armor was 16 mm at a 10 angle while the sides and rear were 14 5 mm at 25 angle and the top was 10 mm at 83 90 angle.
Improving the machines protective armor during production was a slow process and by november only about half of the tanks included the reinforced armor.
Preference given to data from jentz.
Armor on the lower hull front.
Armor with two or more plates spaced a distance apart falls under the category of spaced armour spaced armour can be sloped or unsloped.
The hull s armor was largely the same as the ausf g with the differences lying on the hull s roof.
The side armor was 30 mm the rear 20 mm and the bottom was 10 mm.
D were produced with 50 mm.
Test of 26 66cm class a main armament turret face port plate originally for ijn shinano the third japanese yamato class super battleship converted into an aircraft carrier instead and sunk on its way to final fitting out yard by a u s.
G were produced without the added 30 mm.
5 mm 0 20 in to 8 mm 0 31 in turret front.
Having more armour might help but adding proper safety features to cope with a catastrophic hit would probably be a better strategy.
10 mm 0 39 in schürzen.
Depending on the source the front armor thickness of the turret varies between 15 to 20 mm.
Submarine which made up far left side of turret face looking from inside turret out of gun port with d shaped cutout making up about half of.
When sloped it reduces the penetrating power of bullets and solid shot as after penetrating each plate projectiles tend to tumble deflect deform or disintegrate.