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Panzerfaust

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Panzerfaust 

a light, recoilless hand firearm. The Panzerfaust was a single-shot grenade launcher used against tanks and other armored targets. First used by fascist German troops at the end of World War II, it was manufactured in two versions. The weapon consisted of a barrel open at both ends and equipped with a powder charge, a firing mechanism, and a rear leaf sight; it fired a shaped grenade (seeSHAPED CHARGE) stabilized by an empennage. The Panzerfaust was operated by a single soldier. The two models weighed 5.35 and 3.25 kg and had an effective firing range up to 30 m. At an angle of impact of 90°, the grenade could pierce armor 160–200 mm thick.
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While doing so, a Panzerfaust (German anti-tank weapon) hidden in the dump discharged, striking him in the stomach.
Remembering our own by Foster, Renita / Soldiers Magazine
6-mm Heckler & Koch MP7 personal defence weapon, all remaining personnel are armed with the H&K G-36 assault rifle; the anti-tank rifleman is also equipped with a Panzerfaust 3 rocket launcher.
Future is now by Alpo, Paul V.; Keggler, Johnny / Armada International
With machine-gun pits in each corner, entrenched riflemen armed with Panzerfaust antitank weapons and pre-sighted artillery waited for Allied troops to make the mistake of a haphazard advance.
Shifting the Air Force's support ideology to exploit combined arms in ... by Ireton, Collin T. / Air & Space Power Journal
 
 
 
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