The Armourer's Bench is a multi-media project bringing you detailed examinations of historic small arms from around the world. We will delve into the history, use and operation of the weapons using videos, blog posts and high resolution images to tell their story.
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Matt is also co-host of the Fighting On Film war movie podcast - www.fightingonfilm.com
Amazingly ambitious and a slightly similar system now on the new CT40 canon. The fact that you could carry 150 rounds on the gun and it would only weigh the same as the G3 with several hundred rounds is impressive. What stopped it being finally adopted by the German Army. 5.56mm standard? Reliability?
What the actual flocking hell? You couldn't pay me enough to attempt to fire this insane repurposing of a flare gun! Jesus christ. Edit all I can see is recruits blowing their fingers, hands and faces off.
Ah yes rpg7… a classic… basic: no bs short range launcher.. perhaps we’ll see this launcher for awhile longer if the warheads it fires gets more advanced
Shermans mounted with 60 x 4.5 inch rockets were supplied to various US amored divisons in Europe. It would be far easier just to borrow them from the Americans than making these PIAT universal carriers. The 4.5 inch rocket had superior range and far heavier warhead than the PIAT.
Absolutely. Idle hands make interesting creations. This was never going to have the impact of 4.5in rockets but an interesting project none the less. Thanks for watching.
Was the tide ever in their favour? They're insanely slow and clunky. They have no peripheral vision whatsoever. They can't even turn their turrets to engage any enemy that isn't directly in front of them. Unless their enemy is the broad side of barn, I don't see them actually winning any fights.
Ok but are these things even effective in combat? They look incredibly slow and ponderous. They’ve pretty much given up all mobility in the turret like the ood jagtiger tank destroyers in ww2. Mobility sucks. Visibilty sucks. Unless they’re engaging the broad side of a barn, right smack dab in front of them, I don’t see how these are serving any kind of combat role beyond just keeping their crew alive.
The corrugated steel is NOT for armour: it is camouflage (1:27), the armour is underneath. Think of it. A tank disguised as an old Ukrainian barn, partially visible through the trees; empty, innocent and harmless. Undeserving of a drone attack. Russians are NOT dumb!
There's no armour between the corrugated metal and the tank hull. It's meant to act as spaced armour causing fpvs to detonate before reaching the hull. It's not camouflage as most barns don't have big pipes sticking out the front haha.
Oh Ukraine you missed a golden opportunity to sell all those pristine historical weapons. There's a very large market for that but now not many willing to buy from Russia so they will probably be lost when the soviets blow the mine when they lose it again.
