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Panzerschreck (lit. "tank's dread" or "tank's bane") was the popular name for the Raketenpanzerbüchse 54 ("Rocket Anti-armor Rifle Model 54", abbreviated to RPzB 54), an 88 mm reusable anti-tank rocket launcher developed by Nazi Germany in World War II. Another earlier, official name was Ofenrohr ("stove pipe"). [3]
Approximately 3,000 units were completed from 1943 to 1945. It was made in much smaller numbers than either the Panzerschreck, which was based on the American bazooka rocket launcher, or the Panzerfaust, which was a disposable anti tank recoilless rifle. This is partly because it was realized that a simple hollow tube with an ignition device ...
Model Image Origin Type Notes Grenades; RUAG HG 85 Switzerland Hand grenade: Successor of the HG 43 [26]. Training and explosive variants used by the army. [27]Armament Programme 1985, acquisition of 1.5 million grenades, and some others for training.
The German Panzerschreck was lethal at close range against armored vehicles. The Panzerfaust and Panzerschreck (tank fist and tank terror, respectively) gave the German infantryman the ability to destroy any tank on the battlefield from 50 to 150 meters with relative ease of use and training (unlike the British PIAT).
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Panzerschreck: Anti-tank rocket launcher: 88mm: Nazi Germany: Single-shot reloadable launcher. Captured from German forces. Panzerfaust: Anti-tank recoilless gun: 149mm: Nazi Germany: Single-shot disposable launcher. Some were captured in 1944, while many were captured in 1945 from retreating German soldiers and Volkssturm.
Panzerschreck (Approximately 290,000 produced, first serviced in 1944) [321] [322] Model SS41 (Czech design. Used by SS troops mainly on Eastern front in early stages of war.) [323] PTRD-41 (Captured from Soviets and designated as "Panzerabwehrbüchse 783(r)") [318] PTRS-41 (Captured from Soviets and designated as "Selbstlade ...
The PAK 36 cost RM 5,730 and took 900 work-hours to build, while a PAK 40 cost RM 12,000 and took 2,000 work-hours to build. The situation was so bad that, by May 1944, the 14th (Panzerjager) Kompanie of infantry regiments were having their heavy anti-tank guns removed and replaced by the Panzerschreck rocket launcher. But with an effective ...