"Review: sPzB41 AT Gun with DAK Crew" Topic

"This set, believe it or not, contains an anti-tank rifle, namely the 2.8 cm schwere Panzerbüchse 41, hereafter abbreviated to just sPzB41. It may look like an anti-tank gun, be used like an anti-tank gun, have a lot of features you would associate with an anti-tank gun, but…well…okay, despite the official nomenclature it is basically an anti-tank gun, so we will stick with that here. This ‘gun' was developed in Germany during the early part of the war and first went into mass production in 1941. Although described as 2.8 cm calibre, it actually used the squeeze bore principle, meaning that at the muzzle the barrel was just 2.0 cm in diameter. This gave the round a good velocity of about 1,400 metres per second, which had excellent penetrative power at close range, but quickly lost velocity thereafter, meaning the gun had an effective maximum range of about 500 metres. More of a problem was the sophisticated ammunition, which required quantities of tungsten that the Third Reich simply could not get hold of, so production ceased in 1943, although the weapon continued in use until the end of the war…."

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