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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 term is usually used for weapons that can be carried and used by one person, but is sometimes used for larger weapons. [ 1 ]
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.
.50 BMG PDSHP Georgia: 2014 Bolt-action Semi-automatic 12.7×108mm Satevari MSWP Georgia: 2015 Bolt-action .50 BMG DSR-Precision DSR-50 Germany: 2003 Bolt-action .50 BMG Mauser Tankgewehr M1918 German Empire: 1918 Bolt-action 13.2mm TuF: Gepárd anti-materiel rifle Hungary: 1987 Bolt-action Semi-automatic .50 BMG 12.7×108mm 14.5×114mm ...
45 mm anti-tank gun M1932 (19-K) Soviet Union: World War II 45: 45 mm anti-tank gun M1937 (53-K) Soviet Union: World War II 45: 45 mm anti-tank gun M1942 (M-42) Soviet Union: World War II 47: C.47 F.R.C. Mod.31 Belgium: World War II 47: 47 SA 37 France: World War II 47: Type 1 anti-tank gun Japan: World War II 47: 4cm kanón vz. 36 ...
The Anzio 20mm rifle [1] is an American anti-materiel rifle designed and marketed by Anzio Iron Works. It is the first American anti-materiel rifle designed and mass-produced for public sale with a bore diameter in excess of .50 caliber in over 80 years. [ 2 ]
An anti-materiel rifle, for example, could disable a tank-transporting truck by piercing its engine block. Photo credit: Snipex As powerful as Barrett’s invention was, Ukraine’s new Snipex ...
The Barrett M107 is a .50 caliber, shoulder-fired, semi-automatic sniper rifle. Like its predecessors, the rifle is said to have manageable recoil for a weapon of its size owing to the barrel assembly that itself absorbs force, moving inward toward the receiver against large springs with every shot. [ 5 ]
In 1941, the loss of huge amounts of anti-tank artillery created a need for a stop-gap anti-tank weapon, so famous USSR weapons designers such as Vasily Degtyaryov and Sergei Gavrilovich Simonov were tasked to design anti-tank rifles. Both were considered simpler and more suitable to wartime production than an updated Rukavishnikov rifle.