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The PTRD and the similar but semi-automatic PTRS-41 were the only individual anti-tank weapons available to the Red Army in numbers upon the outbreak of the war with Germany. The 14.5 mm armor-piercing bullet had a muzzle velocity of 1,012 m/s (3,320 ft/s).
14.5mm anti-tank rifles PTRD-41 and PTRS-41 The PTRS-41 was produced and used by the Soviet Union during World War II . In the years between the World Wars, the Soviet Union began experimenting with different types of armour-piercing anti-tank cartridges.
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Soviet PTRS anti-tank rifle in a museum. 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 14.5×114mm (.57 calibre) is a heavy machine gun and anti-materiel rifle cartridge used by the Soviet Union, the former Warsaw Pact, modern Russia, and other countries.. It was originally developed for the PTRS and PTRD anti-tank rifles, and was later used as the basis for the KPV heavy machine gun that formed the basis of the ZPU series anti-aircraft guns that is also the main armament of ...
Founded in Kovrov in 1916, the firearms plant has been supplying Russian and Soviet armed forces with weapons ever since. Weapons such as the Degtyaryov anti-tank rifle (), the Degtyaryov machine gun, the Shpagin submachine gun and the Goryunov heavy machine gun (SG-43 Goryunov) were created at the plant.
After weeks of icy temperatures in the region, Wednesday night felt comparatively balmy. Jimmy Mazel, 17, and his girlfriend decided to eat dinner at Gravelly Point Park in Arlington, Virginia.
Barrett M82.50 BMG anti-materiel rifle. An anti-materiel rifle (AMR) is a rifle designed for use against military equipment, structures, and other hardware targets.Anti-materiel rifles are chambered in significantly larger calibers than conventional rifles and are employed to eliminate equipment such as engines and unarmored or lightly armored targets.