#anti-tank weapons
Black Friday Hit Different This Year
Well… it’s sort of a Black Friday video (but better).
I was recently lucky enough to pick up a pair of very cool anti-tank weapons. A brilliant cutaway/sectioned 66mm LAW and an intriguing 94mm LAW80 training model which requires more research! These were both standard infantry anti-tank weapons for the British Army (and many others) during the Cold War.
Really pleased to add these to the TAB reference collection. We’ll have proper videos on both of these in the near future!
B.A.T. Gun – The Battalion Anti-Tank Gun
In this video we dive into another item from the TAB Reference Collection. An article taken from a 1955 edition of the Illustrated London News which looks at the British Army’s newest anti-tank weapon - The B.A.T Gun!
The L2 B.A.T Gun was a recoilless rifle developed to replace the heavier 17pdr Anti-Tank guns then in service. The B.A.T and its successors remained in service throughout the Cold War.
Check out the accompanying blog for this video for more photos, here.
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Ukrainian Training Video: RPG-76 Komar
Since the war in Ukraine began on 24 February the Ukrainian armed forces have been hastily putting together and sharing training films for various weapon systems. This video features the Polish RPG-76 Komar anti-tank weapon, one of the most interesting weapons to surface so far.
Improvised Bazooka Mine
I recently came across an interesting segment in a January 1945 US Army Combat Bulletin newsreel. It showed men of B Company of the 238th Combat Engineers setting up improvised anti-tank mines in Belgium. The mines were fashioned from Bazooka rockets!
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Check out the accompanying article for the video here.
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Britain’s First Anti-Tank Weapon
The British Army’s first dedicated infantry anti-tank weapon was a rifle grenade. Rifle grenades became extremely popular during the First World War and when the tank threat emerged a rifle grenade seemed like the ideal answer.
Watch the video below:
Check out the accompanying article for this video at www.armourersbench.com.
NLAW In Ukraine
On Monday it was announced that the UK would send Ukraine several shipments of light anti-armour weapons. The weapons were taken from the British Army’s stock of NLAW or Next Generation Anti-Tank Weapon. In this video we’ll take a look at the situation that led to the shipments and at the weapon itself and how it works.
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Cold War Weapons: The Off-Route Mine
During the Cold War NATO was understandably interested in capable anti-armour weapons. One interesting weapon which entered service was the Off-Route Mine, sort of like a Claymore for armoured vehicles. In this video we’ll examine how they worked, how they would be used and why they were removed from service!
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Check out the accompanying article here.
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2022 Ukraine-Russia War
Ukrainian forces hit a Russian tank with a NLAW strike,
2022 Ukraine-Russia War
A Russian tank destroyed by a Ukrainian ATGM strike in Kharkiv Oblast.
