Fighters of tanks of the Second World War. Anti -tank weapons of infantry – guns, grenades, grenade launchers: Semyon Fedoseev

Although the main enemy of tanks on the battlefields of the Second World War were considered artillery, aviation and armored vehicles of the enemy, no anti -tank defense could be stable without reliable infantry cover. And the “queen of the fields” vitally needs its own anti -tank weapons. And if at first the rate was made on anti -tank rifles, mines, ligaments of hand -made high -explosive grenades and bottles with incendiary mixture, then already in the middle of the Second World War “sticky” and “magnetic” cumulative grenades, manual and easel anti -tank grenade launchers (from the bazuk to the panzershrek and fautpatrons), and by the end of the war, and the first prototypes appeared and first prototypes controlled anti -tank weapons.
In the new book of the leading weapons historian you will find comprehensive information not only about all these means, but also about the development of infantry anti -tank tactics during the hostilities and the birth of a new front -line specialty of “tanks fighters”.

Author
Fedoseev Semen Leonidovich
Editor
Nazvinskaya L.
Publisher
Eksmo, 2014
Series
War and we. Tank collection
Genre
Military equipment

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