The basis was the construction of an extremely powerful cartridge, "around which" the entire anti-tank rifle was subsequently built.īy the way, the name rifle is not exactly the most correct, as 20 mm calibre weapons are usually already referred to as light guns. Slukhockin ( Рашков, Ермолаев, Слухоцкин - hence the name of the RES weapon) managed to construct a new powerful anti-tank weapon in a relatively short time. This anti-tank rifle was developed in response to the bitter experience of the first year of the war (1941), when it became clear that anti-tank rifles of the then common calibers of 12.7 mm or 14.5 mm were only marginally effective against the frontal armour of the new enemy tanks. And this is not only because of its 20 mm caliber, but mainly because of its ability to shoot through 70 mm armor at a distance of 100 meters (for better imagination - take a school ruler and read 7 cm - such a mass of homogeneous rolled armor is shot through by a bullet at a distance of 100 meters). This weapon can safely be described as one of the most penetrating anti-tank small arms constructed in the Soviet Union during World War II. ![]() Na 300 m / uhol panciera 90° / 50 mm pancierĪt 100 m / armor angle 90 ° / 70 mm thick armorĪt 300 m / armor angle 90 ° / 50 mm thick armorĢ0 mm protivotankovoje oružje RES obr. Na 100 m / uhol panciera 90° / 70 mm pancier
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