Shots were fired cartridge with armor-piercing bullet, able to penetrate armor, hitting a tank or armored vehicle crew shrapnel bullets and armor. Penetration PTR Mauser T-gewehr M.1918 bullet cartridge 13h92 mm for the time was quite sufficient: at a distance of 100 m - 26 mm to 200 m - 23.5 mm at 400 m - 21.5 mm 500m 18mm, making this weapon formidable opponent for all types of tanks, especially in combination with relatively low weight (17.7 kg with bipod), allowing movement in combat, the possibility of masking and the ability to constantly be in combat the infantry, thus providing strong support for its anti-tank weapons melee. His brass, bottle, with a gently sloping ramp sleeve length 92 mm, had a protruding rim with groove and contain nitrocellulose propellant charge weight '13 Pointed, with conical bottom part of the bullet weight 62.5 g, consisted of a bimetallic shell, lead and steel tempered shirts core. Guns payment PTR usually consisted of two people.Īntitank rifle Mauser T-gewehr was developed by using a special cartridge T-Patrone 13 mm caliber, created by the German company «Polte». To improve stability when shooting in front of the lodge was mounted detachable bipod bipod completely identical from a machine gun MG 08/15.Īny means to reduce the recoil felt by the shooter (such as cushioning the butt plate, muzzle brake, and the like) were absent. Lodge was shortened handguard "half-length" with a pistol grip fire control. Gun could conduct aimed fire at a range of up to 500 m with a practical rate of fire 6 rounds per minute. Sights simple, Open-type, adjustable to the distance of fire from 100 to 500 meters. Besides the two lugs in front of the gate there were two hooks on the rear of it (the rifle had a cylindrical plug with four instead of the usual stops for three stops Mauzerovskogo rifles - had to reinforce the gate, given the increased pressure of powder gases more powerful ammunition). Process Locking barrel by using the rotary longitudinal sliding bolt. (Clearly visible window shutter with three holes to output
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Weapons were singly charged, manual reset. PTR Mauser T-Gewehre M.1918 are, in fact, an increase of $ 98 Mauser rifle, fitted under the use of a powerful patron. Successfully passing military tests, it PTR Reichswehr adopted the (at that time the name of the Kaiser's army in Germany) under the symbol «Mauser Tankgewehr M 1918", which became better known as «Mauser T-gewehr» (as it was known under the names of 13 mm Tank Abwehr Gewehr M1918 or "elephant gun»). 1917 company «Mauser» received the task of designing anti-tank rifle, and already Januthe first prototype of the new weapon was introduced command Kaiser's army. The available, along with two stops in front of) In addition, the relatively thin armor of tanks first allowed limited to large caliber rifle enough. At minimum cost production, PTR had not less, if not equally efficient use than creating parallel with antitank guns. Faced with tanks in 1916, the German military command demanded engineers gunsmiths create a reliable means of antitank defense, simple and cheap to manufacture.īest option at that time was to create exactly the anti-tank rifle - a relatively mobile and easy to use anyone familiar grunt due to its similarity with the rifle. Merits of establishing the first anti-tank rifle (PTR) belong to Germany, because for the first time tanks were used against this state during the First World War.
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