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A Luftwaffe soldier aims the Panzerfaust ' s predecessor, the Faustpatrone, using the integrated leaf sight. Panzerfaust-armed Finnish soldiers (soldier in foreground is also armed with a Suomi KP/-31) passing the wreckage of a Soviet T-34 tank, destroyed by detonation, in the Battle of Tali-Ihantala Panzerfaust 30 klein ("small") or Faustpatrone
The Panzerfaust 3 (lit. ' armor fist ' or 'tank fist') is a modern semi-disposable recoilless anti-tank weapon, which was developed between 1978 and 1985 and first entered service with the Bundeswehr in 1987 (although they did not officially adopt it until 1992).
The PzF 44 (abbreviation for Panzerfaust 44 mm, formally also Leichte Panzerfaust, [1] meaning "Light tank-fist", also known as Panzerfaust Lanze and Panzerfaust 2/Panzerfaust II), was a West German portable recoilless shoulder-fired anti-tank rocket launcher with a barrel-caliber of 44 mm (1.7 in).
It was a very compact pure fission device weighing 50.9 pounds (23.1 kg) and when packaged in the M388 round weighed 76 pounds (34 kg). The warhead had a yield equivalent to 20 tonnes of TNT (84 GJ) and contained 26 pounds (12 kg) of high explosives. [15] [2] There was also a 10 tonne, TNT equivalent, variant. [16] [17] [18]
Recoilless rifle Soviet Union Stolen from the Iraqi or Syrian Army. [21] SPG-9 [31] Recoilless rifle Soviet Union M40: Recoilless rifle: 1 [21] United States Seized from the Syrian opposition. [21] M60 [22] Recoilless rifle Yugoslavia RPG-7: Rocket propelled grenade launcher: Large quantities Soviet Union: Commonly used. [21] RPG-18: Rocket ...
3.5-inch (90mm) M20 Super-Bazooka team in the Korean War. The first man-portable rocket launcher to be mass-produced was the American 60 mm M1 rocket launcher, more commonly known as the bazooka . It was a man-portable, tube launched, recoilless rocket anti-tank weapon, widely fielded by the United States Army during World War II and into the ...
This page contains a list of equipment used the German military of World War II.Germany used a number of type designations for their weapons. In some cases, the type designation and series number (i.e. FlaK 30) are sufficient to identify a system, but occasionally multiple systems of the same type are developed at the same time and share a partial designation.
Sight picture of the 55 S 55 NE sight. The main principle in the 55 S 55 is that of a smoothbore recoilless gun with a venturi effect recoil damper. [3] It is developed based on the Panzerfaust, [3] and is similar to the Swedish (Carl Gustaf 8.4cm recoilless rifle), German (Panzerfaust 2) and Soviet designs of the time, though its design was not influenced by them. [3]