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The Tankgewehr M1918 (transl. Tankgun), also known as the Mauser 13mm anti-tank rifle and T-Gewehr in English, [2][3] is a German anti-tank rifle [4] —the first rifle designed for the sole purpose of destroying armored targets—and the only anti-tank rifle to see service in World War I. Approximately 16,900 were produced.
The Panzerbüchse 39, abbreviated PzB 39 (German: "tank hunting rifle model 39"), was a German anti-tank rifle used in World War II. It was an improvement of the Panzerbüchse 38 (PzB 38) rifle.
The first purposely-designed infantry anti-tank rifle was designed by Germany. The Mauser 1918 T-Gewehr large-calibre (13.2 mm) rifle was capable of penetrating the armour of the newer generations of tanks and allowed a chance at stopping them.
The Tankgewehr (tank gun) was the first anti-tank rifle, developed in Germany during World War I to defeat the new British tanks.
In response to the new Allied armored threat, Waffenfabrik Mauser AG quickly designed and produced a special rifle to fight tanks: the 13.2 mm Tank Abwehr Gewehr M1918, or “T-Gewehr.”
The Tankgewehr (tank-rifle) is the world’s first anti-tank rifle developed by the Germans in 1918. This arm was specifically designed to combat the onslaught of Allied armor on the Western...
This monstrous gun was four times heavier than Germany’s standard infantry rifle, and fired a round that was even bigger than the .50 BMG. Issued to specially trained anti-tank teams, the T-Gewehr stands as history’s first dedicated anti-tank rifle ever.
The Panzerbüchse 39 (PzB 39) was an anti-tank rifle operated by Wehrmacht during the Second World War. The PzB 39 saw use during the invasion of Poland and Operation Barbarossa, and it was developed as an improvement upon the earlier Panzerbüchse 38 (PzB 38).
Designed to penetrate the armor of the earliest tanks on the battlefields of World War One, the Mauser Tank Gewehr is the grand-daddy of every anti-tank rifle since.
As a result, the German army realized they could produce an armor-piercing bolt-action rifle quickly and efficiently by essentially building a bigger version of a traditional Mauser action chambered for massive 13.2mm rounds. That made this gun the world's first anti-tank rifle.