David and Goliath The M8 Armored Car was not intended to engage enemy tanks. Really if anything, it wasn’t intended to engage anything in its scout role, where speed and mobility to get the hell out was its greatest weapon, more so than the rinky-dink 37mm gun it mounted. Meanwhile the German Panzer VI “Tiger” was just the opposite, fifty+ tons of steel, designed to rule the battlefield with its 88mm gun and thick armor. Apparently Troop B, 87th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron never got that me