tomcat
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In terms of the Russian front, the tigers have been credited with one quarter(1/4) of all Russian tanks destroyed on the Eastern Front alone
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I find that hard to beleive.
The USSR suffered a total of 83,500 losses during the war. 1/4 of that is 20,875.
If you take away the losses in 1941 and 1942. 20,500 and 15,000 you are left with 48,000.
So the Tiger has to knock out nearly half of all casualties from 1943 onwards...
The total number of Tigers built was 1355. Starting at 25 per month in August 1942, and ended in August 1944. Peak production was 104 in April 1944. The peak strength was on 1 July 1944 with 671 runners.