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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.
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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 ...
One informal test found that the Panzerfaust made an entry hole 2.75 inches (7 cm) in diameter, whereas the Panzerschreck made an entry hole at least 1 inch (2.5 cm) in diameter. By contrast, the bazooka made an entry hole that was only 0.5 inches (1.3 cm) in diameter). [13]
Raketen-Panzerbüchse 54, aka "Panzerschreck" Recoilless guns Panzerfaust 30 klein, aka Faustpatrone ('fist cartridge') Panzerfaust 30; Panzerfaust 60; Panzerfaust 100; Miscellaneous Sturmpistole; Panzerschreck
Panzerfaust (Disposable AT weapon, cannot be reloaded, first serviced in 1943) [325] Panzerschreck (Approximately 290,000 produced, first serviced in 1944) [325] [326] Model SS41 (Czech design. Used by SS troops mainly on Eastern front in early stages of war.) [327] PTRD-41 (Captured from Soviets and designated as "Panzerabwehrbüchse 783(r ...
Examples include: bazooka, Panzerschreck, Carl Gustaf 8.4 cm recoilless rifle, RPG-7, Panzerfaust 2, etc. Semi-disposable systems , where the launcher is manufactured pre-loaded and issued as a single unit of ammunition meant to be launched from a reusable firing and sighting device and discarded after one use.
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).