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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 ...
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 .
Max. 30/min. Muzzle velocity. 800 m/s (2,600 ft/s) Feed system. 10 round box magazine. The Lahti L-39 is a Finnish 20 mm anti-tank rifle used during the Second World War. It had excellent accuracy, penetration and range, but its size made transportation difficult. It was nicknamed "Norsupyssy" ("Elephant Gun"), and as tanks developed armor too ...
Standard issue heavy machine gun, mounted on T-55 tanks, Otokar Cobra and some on Humvees. NSV machine gun [6] Russia: Standard issue heavy machine gun, used on T-72 tanks and Didgori-1 APC. Some also used in ground support and Anti-air roles. Rotary machine guns M134 Minigun [33] [34] [6] United States: Support role, air and ground vehicles [35]
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]
The Barrett M82 (standardized by the U.S. military as the M107) is a recoil-operated, semi-automatic anti-materiel rifle developed by the American company Barrett Firearms Manufacturing. Also called the Light Fifty (due to its chambering of the .50 BMG 12.7×99mm NATO cartridge), [2][3] the weapon is classified in three variants: the original ...
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 ...
The British Boys anti-tank rifle was used to great effect against lightly armored tanks, but was soon replaced by the PIAT due to its ineffectiveness against more armored tanks. In September 1939 Polish army used the Wz. 35 anti-tank rifle , around 800 of which were captured by Germans and put into service as Panzerbüchse 35(p).