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Also German instructions positively said it was suicidal for a Tiger to face a JS-2 alone - that they ought to face each with 3 Tigers to have a good chance of success.
As to the IS-2, well it had a heavier gun and thicker armour - as it had been developped to fight the Tigers. It was also faster, lighter hence more manœuverable and had greater autonomy. ( the autonomy problem was the reason a good many Tigers were destroyed while aboard trains… )
Its turret was only built for 2 people however and not 3 like the Panzers, which meant it shot far slower, also its optics were inferior hence a lesser range but its armour negated that problem… also its ammunition rack was far too small. I believe what claimed the greatest number of them were the Panzerfaust, until the Soviets learend the hard way they should keep an infantry screen around them and make it clear the terrain.
Of courss an IS-2 would be more or less lethal to a tiger at close range, but seriously. gettting that close to a tiger without eating 8.8cm was REALLY hard, if not impossible unless you greatly outnumbered it.
This was mostly thanks to the lazer presicion in the infamous 8.8 L/71 combined with great optics and a good prenetration. You didn't do a frontal charge on a tiger no matter what you were driving.