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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.
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 ...
PTRD-41 Soviet Union: 1941 Bolt-action 14.5×114mm PTRS-41 Soviet Union: 1941 Semi-automatic 14.5×114mm Zastava M93 Black Arrow Serbia: 1998 Bolt-action .50 BMG 12.7×108mm Zastava M12 Black Spear Serbia: 12.7x108mm Denel NTW-20 South Africa: 1998 Bolt-action 14.5×114mm (NTW 14.5) 20×82mm (NTW 20) 20×110mm Hispano (NTW 20) Neopup PAW-20
PTRD-41 (Captured from Soviets and designated as "Panzerabwehrbüchse 783(r)") [321] PTRS-41 (Captured from Soviets and designated as "Selbstlade-Panzerabwehrbüchse 784(r)") [321] Wz. 35 anti-tank rifle (Captured from Poland and designated as "Panzerbüchse 35(p)". Used in early years of war on Western front.
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The Battle of Kursk is the single largest battle in the history of warfare. [ 40 ] [ 41 ] [ 42 ] It ranks only behind the Battle of Stalingrad several months earlier as the most often-cited turning point in the European theatre of the war .
In 1940 he became a Doctor of Technical Sciences, [1] and Hero of Socialist Labour [1] (he received the second such award in its history just two weeks after Joseph Stalin). He joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1941. [1] During the Axis invasion of the USSR in summer 1941 he created the PTRD-41 14.5mm anti-tank rifle.