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An anti-tank rifle is a rifle designed to penetrate the armour of vehicles, particularly tanks. The usefulness of rifles for this purpose ran from the introduction of tanks to the Second World War during which vehicle armour passed beyond the point at which at projectile fired by a weapon that could be carried by a single soldier was of any use. A rifle is a firearm that uses a spiral groove cut into the barrel to spin a projectile (usually a bullet), thus improving accuracy and range of the projectile. ...
Military vehicles are commonly armoured to withstand the impact of shrapnel, bullets or shells, protecting the soldiers inside from enemy fire. ...
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History
 British 0.55 inch Boys anti-tank rifle
 Soviet PTRS-41 14.5 mm anti-tank rifle  Japanese Type 97 20 mm anti-tank rifle The tug of war between armour and projectiles had been developing for a long while among naval vessels since the advent of the Ironclad. It wasn't until soldiers met armoured vehicles on land that the conflict of infantry firearms and armour began. The advent of armoured cars, and then the tank resulted in the development of the first anti-tank weapons. Among the weapons used against the early armoured vehicles were high powered rifles. ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (2048x1536, 488 KB) Beschreibung: Panzerbüchse - Eine russische halbautomatische Panzerbüchse vom Typ PTRS-41 bzw. ...
ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (2048x1536, 488 KB) Beschreibung: Panzerbüchse - Eine russische halbautomatische Panzerbüchse vom Typ PTRS-41 bzw. ...
Ironclad warships, frequently shortened to just ironclads, were ships sheathed with thick iron plates for protection. ...
Anti-tank, or simply AT, refers to any method of combating military armored fighting vehicles, notably tanks. ...
High powered rifles had appeared in the 1800s, in particular for the hunting of big game. The anti-tank rifle would follow the same route - a large bullet with a high velocity with the ability to penetrate armor. This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...
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The first tanks, the British Mark I, launched against the German trenches in World War I were not impregnable to ordinary rifle fire. Bullets could find their way through weak spots or turning into liquid lead as they hit seep through the joints spraying hot metal over the crew and adding to the generally already hellish conditions inside. The Germans developed ways to improve the penetrating power of their rifles. The first attempt was the so-called 'reversed bullet'. These used the same cartridge and bullet as the regular round, but the bullet was reversed and an increased propelling charge was used. A Mark I tank (moving left to right). ...
World War I was primarily a European conflict with many facets: immense human sacrifice, stalemate trench warfare, and the use of new, devastating weapons - tanks, aircraft, machine guns, and poison gas. ...
The word cartridge has different meanings, depending on context: Cartridge (electronics) - a module to be inserted into a larger piece of equipment, for example a games cartridge in a games console, or an ink cartridge in a printer. ...
The next development was a special armor-piercing bullet, the K bullet (in German Patrone SmK Kurz 7.92 mm). Again this could be fired from the regular infantry rifle. It had a increased propelling charge and a steel cored bullet. This had about a 30 percent chance of penetrating the 8 mm armor of the current tanks if striking perpendicularly. The K bullet round was more expensive to produce, and was generally only issued to snipers, and more advanced marksmen where its value would be greater. The ordinary infantryman had to make do with the reversed bullets which were far less effective and had to be used closer to the target. Other anti-tank weapons such as grenades, mortars, or cannon were preferred. Both types of round damaged the rifles. In the first place there was shortened life through high barrel wear. Secondly the higher pressure created in the chamber would jam the bolt and only hammering the stuck bolt would open it. This could lead to the extractor claw failing to extract the cartridge, only breaking of the cartridge rim and leaving it stuck in the gun. The strain of firing the increased charge could also burst the chamber of weaker and older rifles, at best destroying the rifle at worst injuring or killing the rifleman. For these reasons, the K-bullet and reversed bullet were not popular with the troops. Nevertheless, it gave the infantry a chance to stop a tank in an emergency, or at least injure or kill some of the crew if a bullet penetrated.
Even as the rounds were introduced, tanks were being designed and built with thicker armour rendering these rounds largely ineffective, though they remained in use against the older designs and armoured cars. So, the first purpose designed anti-tank rifle was designed by Germany. This large-caliber rifle was capable of penetrating the armour of these new generations of tanks and allowed a chance at stopping them. Other techniques were still preferred. The high recoil of the rifle was very hard on the firer, sometimes breaking the collar bone. Although the rifle was unique to its role, it was a development of what had gone before; Mauser rifles and high-powered British sporting rifles. The caliber of roughly 12-13 mm was not unusual either, some 0.5 inch guns having been fielded in land warfare. Anti-tank, or simply AT, refers to any method of combating military armored fighting vehicles, notably tanks. ...
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During WW1, a half-inch high velocity round was being developed in the US at the same time for use against aircraft, it would be used with the Browning-designed .5 caliber machine gun. This round was based on the current US .30 infantry round. When word of the German anti-tank round spread, there was some debate as to if it should be copied and used as a base for the new machine gun round. However, after some analysis it was ruled out, as the performance was inferior to their round . The Browning M2 .50 cal machine gun would, however, go on to function as a anti-armor machine gun. This article is about the . ...
At the start of the Second World War, most nations had a anti-tank rifle based on a high velocity large calibre round (eg the British Boys Anti-tank Rifle). These were effective at the start of the war against the early tanks designs (light tanks like the German Panzer I and Panzer II). As armor became thicker on the newer models introduced the effectiveness of a manportable rifle lessened. At first small cannons up to 20 mm calibre were used but the anti-tank role soon required more powerful weapons which were based on the application of chemical energy in the shaped charge anti-tank rifle grenades (grenade launchers). To these were added rocket launchers, recoilless rifles, and rocket-propelled grenades such as the Bazooka and Panzerfaust. Some anti-tank rifles, like the Finnish L-39, were still used by snipers to annoy and sabotage enemy actions, like firing phosporous bullets at tanks' open hatches, or to smoke an enemy sniper out of his position. Boyes Anti-tank Rifle Type Anti tank rifle Nationality United Kingdom Era World War II History Date of design 1937 Production period 1937 - ? Service duration 1937 - 194? Operators United Kingdom, Empire/Commonwealth, War service World War II Specifications Type Bolt action rifle Calibre . ...
The US M1A1 Abrams tank is a typical modern main battle tank. ...
The Panzer I was a light tank produced by Germany in the 1930s, intended as a training tank, but also used extensively in the Spanish Civil War and early World War II. The Panzer I went by many names and designations, with the most common official designation as the Panzerkampfwagen...
The Panzer II was a German tank used in World War II. Designed as a stopgap while other tanks were developed, it played an important role in the early years of World War II, during the Polish and French campaigns. ...
A shaped charge is an explosive charge shaped to focus the effect of the released energy. ...
A grenade launcher is weapon that fires or launches a grenade to longer distances than a soldier could throw by hand. ...
Rocket launcher is a vague term which could mean various things: a mobile launch platform for an ICBM or cruise missile a launcher for multiple smaller missiles, such as Stalins Organ a shoulder-launched missile weapon This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that...
M67 recoilless rifle The first effective recoilless rifles (RCL) were developed during World War II as a lightweight form of anti-tank weaponry. ...
A rocket propelled grenade (RPG) is a man-portable, shoulder-launched weapon capable of firing an explosive device longer distances than an otherwise unassisted soldier could throw. ...
The bazooka weapon was one of the first anti-tank weapons based on the HEAT shell to enter service, used by the United States Armed Forces in World War II. It was nicknamed bazooka from a vague resemblance to the musical instrument of the same name (see: bazooka (instrument)). In...
The Panzerfaust (lit. ...
The weapon is the conceptual forbear to modern anti-tank weapons wielded by modern infantry, and both large-caliber sniper rifles and anti-materiel rifles owe some part of their design heritage to it. A U.S. Army soldier peers through a scope mounted atop his M-21 rifle during operations in Iraq A sniper rifle is a somewhat vague class of rifle used for sniping, but it can be defined as a rifle used for selective destruction of specific small targets from a...
An anti-materiel rifle is generally a large-caliber rifle used in peacetime for destroying equipment and unexploded ordnance, and during wartime for attacking unarmored or lightly armored vehicles, fuel dumps, parked airplanes, etc. ...
Examples Some examples of anti-tank rifles include: - WWI
- Mauser 1898 with Patrone SmK Kurz 7.92 mm
- German 13.2 mm Rifle Anti-Tank (Mauser)
- WWII
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Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of the Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as dictator. ...
Panzerbüchse (plural: Panzerbüchsen) is the German term for anti-tank rifle used in World War II. Literally it means tank rifle; here, the word Büchse is the term for rifle in sports or hunting jargon. ...
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PTRS The PTRS-41, also called the Simonov, was an anti-tank rifle based on the earlier PTRD-41, designed and produced by the Soviet Union during World War II. It was a bolt-action rifle that resembled a peice of pipe mounted on a rifle stock. ...
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Boyes Anti-tank Rifle Type Anti tank rifle Nationality United Kingdom Era World War II History Date of design 1937 Production period 1937 - ? Service duration 1937 - 194? Operators United Kingdom, Empire/Commonwealth, War service World War II Specifications Type Bolt action rifle Calibre . ...
External links - German Anti-Tank Rifles - Panzerbüchse
- Hand Held Anti Tank Weapons
- L-39
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