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The Miniman (Swedish military designation Pansarskott m/68, abbreviated Pskott m/68 [1]) is a disposable single-shot 74-mm unguided anti-tank smooth bore recoilless weapon, designed in Sweden by Försvarets Fabriksverk (FFV) and became operational in 1968.
Man-portable anti-tank systems (MANPATS or MPATS) are traditionally portable shoulder-launched projectile systems firing heavy shell-type projectiles (although throwing and lunge weapons have existed), typically designed to combat protected targets, such as armoured vehicles, field fortifications and at times even low-flying aircraft (especially helicopters).
Miniman: Saab Bofors Dynamics Sweden Reusable 1968 74 mm [82] RAK 74 "Raketenrohre NORA" Waffenfabrik Bern — Switzerland Reusable 1974 83 mm Project abandoned [83] M40 recoilless rifle: Watervliet Arsenal United States Reusable 1955 105 mm [84] Recoilless guns APILAS"Armour Piercing Infantry Light Arm System" GIAT France
Miniman: FFV Ordnance 74 mm SS AT Sweden: 1968 LG 40: Rheinmetall: 75×130 mm. R 75×200 mm. R SS RCL Germany: 1941 M20: 75 mm SS RCL United States: 1944 Breda Folgore: Breda Meccanica Bresciana: 80 mm (3.1 in) HEAT SS AT Italy: 1986 DZJ-08: Norinco: 80 mm SS AT China: 2008 B-10: KBM: 82 mm SS RCL Soviet Union: 1954 M59: Skoda: 82 mm ...
The Miniman was simpler and cheaper than anything imagined by designers in World War II. Inside what looked like a rocket launcher tube, is a high-explosive anti-tank (HEAT) projectile attached by a break-away bolt to an alloy aluminum tube with ports drilled in it and which acts like a kind of high-pressure chamber.
Minuteman III launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on 9 February 2023.. The LGM-30 Minuteman is an American land-based intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in service with the Air Force Global Strike Command.
This list of artillery catalogues types of weapons found in batteries of national armed forces' artillery units.. Some weapons used by the infantry units, known as infantry support weapons, are often misidentified as artillery weapons because of their use and performance characteristics, sometimes known colloquially as the "infantryman's artillery" [1] which has been particularly applied to ...
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