ITT We Hunt Big Game
Antitank Warfare General
Michael Lopez
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Wyatt Adams
Starting off with the OG antitank weapon: The Panzerfaust.
The 'Faust was a simple concept, designed to be a cheap, mass produced antitank weapon for the Volkssturm near the end of WW2. The large, bulbous head contained a large shaped charge warhead. At the ass end of the warhead was a wooden plug with folding spring-steel fins.
The fins were rolled up around the plug, a cardboard cartridge containing black powder was screwed onto the ass end of the plug, and the plug was stuffed into the end of a hollow metal pipe and adjusted to line up with a hammer and firing pin assembly on the tube. When the firing lever was pushed, the firing pin hit a primer in the cardboard cartridge, igniting the black powder, which sent a jet of fire 50 feet back behind the shooter and lobbed the warhead a distance of about 60 meters.
Ayden Young
A related, but much less known cousin to the Panzerfaust was the Panzerwurfmine. This was a miniaturized shaped charge warhead turned into a hand grenade.
Antitank grenades are not new, but only received much major publicity when Hadji started using old Soviet RKG-3 antitank grenades against our uparmored Humvees and Strykers in Iraq several years ago.
The Panzerwurfmine was the granddaddy of them all. It had a small but powerful shaped charge with a sensitive contact detonator. This warhead was attached to a long tube, like a stick grenade, that was surrounded by four spring-steel wires attached to cloth fins. When thrown, the wires flip out and stretch the cloth pieces into fins for stable flight. One wire was also attached to a safety pin and yanked it free only when the fins deployed, preventing accidental an heroes.
The PWM was used chiefly by special German tank hunter teams, because it was short ranged and required good aim. For best effect, the grenade was thrown in a high arc, to bring it down on top of the enemy tank where the armor was thinner. This took practice, but was very effective when employed correctly.
Lucas Cruz
The most basic of all ATGMs that had real combat effectiveness is the 9k11 Malyutka (NATO name SA-3 Sagger).
With a firing station consisting of a simple periscope sight attached to a joystick, these missiles were beefy shaped-charge warheads attached to a rocket motor and some control fins. A flare on the tail kept the missile visible in flight while the gunner flew it into the target like a R/C airplane. Control commands were sent to the missile via a pair of thin wires that spooled out behind the missile as it flew. This command scheme was called Manual Command to Line of Sight. State of the art for 1960s tech.
Iran and China both still use the AT-3 in their arsenals, but have upgrade them with more powerful warheads and computer-assisted missile guidance. A good number of them have also been showing up in Syria off and on.
James Jenkins
The Sagger gets a bad rap for being hard to steer (there's a simulator game called "9k11" for Android if you want to try) but with a practiced gunner is capable of some impressive kills.
Jonathan Jones
That's all for tonight. Enjoy.
Oliver Hernandez
So it's like a poorfag's Javelin
Adam Smith
Any good sources on the LOSAT/CKEM?
Dylan Diaz
Javelin is fire and forget. A million times more advanced than that. Its not even a poorman's TOW because those are SACLOS. As a matter of fact, I cant think of a western MCLOS ATGM besides the Japanese MAT.
Ethan Baker
French SS.10, SS.11, and SS.12, American ENTAC, and the Brits had a couple too. None currently in service though.