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Default Re: Rutscher-small tank detroyer

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Originally Posted by Sloniksp View Post
Looks to me like another desperate attempt by the Germans to create some kind of wonder weapon.

Why two Barrels?
Yea, you wonder why they were going to build it.

A bit on the PAW 600 high-low pressure gun:

This weapon is a smoothbore gun that was designed as a cheap expedient to provide infantry divisions with a decent anti-tank weapon.
The round it fires consists of a 105mm howitzer casing cut down to about half height with a heavy steel plate welded on the face of it. This plate has a series of small holes (venturii) drilled in it. A short spigot is fitted to the plate. On the spigot a modified 8.1cm mortar bomb is attached such that when fired it detaches from the spigot. The mortar bomb is fitted with a hollow charge warhead. There was nothing sophisticated about it. It was hobbled togeather from existing bits of stuff.
Accuracy in tests was 90% hits could be obtained on a stationary 1m x 1m target at 500 meters. At double the range hits on the same size target are largely blind luck. Well, that makes it better than a panzerschrek at least!

Also, 38.5 tons and no more than 14.5mm of armor?! That's alot of weight for paper thin armor.
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