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The Boys rifle was used in the early stages of the Second World War against lightly armoured German tanks and combat vehicles. Britain also supplied a large number of Boys anti-tank rifles to Finland in 1939 and 1940 during the Winter War with the Soviet Union. The weapon was popular with the Finns because it could deal with Soviet T-26 tanks ...
Several manufacturers over time United States Reusable 1945 89 mm [109] Recoilless rifles Carl Gustaf 20 mm recoilless rifle: Carl Gustafs stads gevärsfaktori Sweden Reusable 1942 20 mm [110] Recoilless guns Panzerfaust: HASAG, Werk Schlieben Nazi Germany Disposable 1942 100mm 106 mm 149 mm [111] Anti-tank missiles X-7 Rotkäppchen
The Stevens Boys Rifles were a series of single-shot takedown rifles produced by Stevens Arms from 1890 until 1943. The rifles used a falling-block action (sometimes called a tilting-block, dropping-block, or drop-block) and were chambered in a variety of rimfire calibers, such as .22 Short, .22 Long Rifle, .25 Rimfire, and .32 Rimfire. [2][4]
Launch. platform. Man-portable launcher. The FGM-148 Javelin, or Advanced Anti-Tank Weapon System-Medium (AAWS-M), is an American-made man-portable anti-tank system in service since 1996, and continuously upgraded. It replaced the M47 Dragon anti-tank missile in US service. [11] Its fire-and-forget design features automatic infrared guidance ...
741 gr (48 g) APCR Tungsten. 945 m/s. 21,434 J. Test barrel length: 914.4 mm (36 in) Source (s): Ammo Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition by Michael Bussard. The .55 Boys ( 13.9×99mmB in metric) is an anti-tank cartridge used by the United Kingdom during World War II. It was designed for use with the Boys anti-tank rifle .
MG 42(Used by Italian Social Republic) Medium machine guns. [edit] Breda Mod. 5G. Breda M1938(Tank machine gun adapted for infantry use)[385] Fiat–Revelli M1914(Used by colonial troops in Italian East Africa)[386] Fiat–Revelli M1935(Fully replaced Fiat–Revelli M1914 in 1940)[386] Heavy machine guns.
The first combat use of anti-tank rifles took place during the invasion of Poland of 1939. The Wz. 35 anti-tank rifle was extensively used by most Polish units. The Wz. 35 with 7.92 mm anti-tank rifle ammunition was a very effective weapon against all German tanks of the period (the Panzer I, II and III, as well as the Czechoslovak-made LT-35 ...
Arguably, the first MANPATS could be anti-tank rifles developed during World War I. An anti-tank rifle is a rifle designed to penetrate the armour of vehicles, particularly tanks. The usefulness of rifles for this purpose ran from the introduction of tanks in World War I and until the Korean War. While medium and heavy tank armour became too ...