Anti-tank warfare

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

Pictures

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

Related pages

• List of man portable anti-tank systems
• Anti-tank gun (List of anti-tank guns)
• Bombard (weapon)
• Attack aircraft
• Attack helicopter
• Anti-tank grenade
• Anti-tank missile
• Czech hedgehog
• Tank destroyer
• Panzerjäger
• Jagdpanzer
• Anti-tank mine
• Anti-tank grenade

Other websites

• A 1987 U.S. Army news archive about light anti-tank weapon training by the 7th Infantry Division (Light), Fort Ord, Calif.