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An anti-tank rifle is an anti-materiel rifle designed to penetrate the armor of armored fighting vehicles, most commonly tanks, armored personnel carriers, and infantry fighting vehicles. The term is usually used for weapons that can be carried and used by one person, but is sometimes used for larger weapons. [1]
Self-propelled anti-tank guns are anti-tank guns mounted on vehicles. Sometimes lightly armored, and often fitted into a turret, they are nonetheless not tanks or assault guns and simply enhance the mobility of anti-tank guns. They are also capable of providing direct fire support.
PTRS-41 anti-tank rifle at the Museum of the Great Patriotic War, Moscow. Anti-tank rifles were introduced in some armies before the Second World War to provide infantry with a stand-off weapon when confronted with a tank assault. The intention was to preserve the morale of the infantry by providing a weapon that could actually defeat a tank.
An anti-tank gun is a form of artillery designed to destroy tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, normally from a static defensive position. [1] The development of specialized anti-tank munitions and anti-tank guns was prompted by the appearance of tanks during World War I. [2] To destroy hostile tanks, artillerymen often used field guns ...
Mauser Tankgewehr M1918. 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 ...
German anti-tank rifles originated back in 1917 with the Mauser 1918 T-Gewehr, the world's first anti-tank rifle, using a special 13.2 mm (0.52 in) cartridge. It was created in response to the appearance of the first British tanks on the Western Front. That single shot manually operated rifle enjoyed moderate success; approximately 15,800 ...
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Anti-tank rifles. An Anti-tank rifle is a large calibre rifle designed to penetrate armored plating and thus defeat enemy armored vehicles. This concept was followed by many nations entering World War II but was almost completely abandoned by the conclusion of that conflict due to ineffectiveness.
2,000 m (2,200 yd) Feed system. 7-round box magazine. The Type 97 automatic cannon (九七式自動砲, Kyū-nana-shiki-jidōhō) is a 20-millimeter (0.79 in) Japanese anti-tank rifle that began development in the 1930s. It was used by the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) during the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Soviet–Japanese border conflicts ...