How much metal would a coffee can full of thermite go through??? Asking for a friend.
Tanks are not as invincible as many think. Actually, they are quite vulnerable. They got plenty of blind spots, and being basically a metal shell also makes it easy to turn into an oven. Without infantry support, and lots of it, a tank crew is the last thing I want to be on deep in enemy territory. During the first phase of the Red Army's great 1941 winter offensive, the Soviet commanders issued explicit orders that if infantry and rifle teams are allowed to stray too far away from the tanks that they are supposed to support, the leaders of these teams were to be shot on the spot by the commissars behind them. And it was an order that was carried out with full enforcement and utter disregard to how many squad, company, and regimental leaders that they had to lose to their own hands. THAT was how serious the Soviets were about infantry not separating from the armored portions of their units. They discovered quite quickly that each and every German soldier is an efficient tank killing machine by himself, and especially with new hand deployed mines that featured explosive-formed projectile cavities and magnetic bases that ensured that the mine always landed with the business ends of the EFP pointed at the target regardless of what angle or trajectory that they had been thrown, the Soviets had lost a devastating amount of tanks and crewmen to Wehrmacht infantry ALONE... And this is not even counting the kills made by Panzers, Tigers, Ferdinands, and 88mm AA batteries...
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