Armor-piercing rounds were fired one after another, hitting the target without the slightest deviation.
——That was all there was to it.
The "75 Miss" of the Hetzer and the 50-caliber of the reconnaissance panther had no way to deal with the terrifying frontal armor of the E-100. The 300mm armor, inclined at 30 degrees, had the same protective effect as 410mm of vertical armor, almost equal to the main armor of the Yamato-class battleship. Anything less than 100mm in tank guns could only clank against that tortoiseshell-like layer like a door knocker, scratching off some paint at best even with direct hits on the armor plate.
