Anti-tank warfare

Anti-tank warfare originated during World War I from the desire to develop technology and tactics to destroy tanks.[1]

Pictures

  • A soldier preparing to fire the FGR-17 Viper, an American experimental one-man disposable antitank rocket.
  • British Indian Army tank-hunting squad with anti-tank rifle and Molotov cocktails in the North African Campaign, on 6 October 1940.
  • A British 17-pounder anti-tank gun towed behind Half-track in Italy, 1 September 1944.
  • A British heavy tank of World War One.
  • A disabled Mark IV tank near Cambrai, 1917 – World War I.
  • Czechoslovak anti-tank gun 3,7cm KPÚV vz. 37.
  • Soviet Ilyushin Il-2 planes with 23mm cannons attacking a German tank column during the Battle of Kursk.
  • Bofors 37 mm anti-tank gun as used by several nations.
  • German PaK 38 50-mm anti-tank gun.
  • The British Archer self-propelled anti-tank gun put the 17-pdr gun on the hull of a Valentine tank.
  • PTRS-41 anti-tank rifle at the Museum of the Great Patriotic War in Moscow.
  • British PIAT .
  • PARS 3 LR with HEAT warhead of the German Army.
  • A statue of a Vietminh soldier holding a Lunge AT Mine. In Vietnamese the mine is called bom ba càng, literally means "three-clawed bomb".
  • Sticky bomb in production.
  • A Finnish Army with a Molotov cocktail in the 1939–40 Winter War.
  • Examples of Czech hedgehogs deployed on the Atlantic Wall in the vicinity of Calais.
  • Panzerfaust armed German soldiers on the Eastern Front, 1945.
  • Chinese suicide bomber putting on an explosive vest made out of Model 24 hand grenades to use in an attack on Japanese tanks at the Battle of Taierzhuang in 1938.
  • AH-64 Apache, an anti-tank helicopter with eight AGM-114 Hellfire missiles.
  • South African tank gun retrofitted to an Ordnance QF 17-pounder carriage.
  • Australian Army Land Rover Series 2 "gunbuggy" with an M40 recoilless rifle used in the anti-tank role.
  • Soviet RPG-7.
  • South African Sherman tank disabled in the fight to take the Perugia Highlands in Italy 1944 – World War 2.

References

  1. ↑ "WW1 Anti-Tank rifles". Retrieved 10 October 2014.

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