MichaelM

Hi As I recall during the later stages of the war, the were a great many of these things left behind by the germans that our troops on the front line started using them. They were used against any and all targets that needed the extra range and firepower that the standard handgrenade lacked. Tanks, bunkers, buildings you name it, it got a Panzerfaust fired at it. Michael

Hi Latest Nvidia drivers were loaded, as allways. The second CD was full of mods, but was asked to do screenshots of standard game and to feature the screenshots that were on the mode CD. http://www.xcombat.co.uk/cm_mod_packs.htm Michael [ May 05, 2002, 10:11 AM: Message edited by: MichaelM ]

Hi Panzerfaust,(German: "Tank Fist"), The first model, the Panzerfaust 30, was developed in 1943 for use by infantry against Soviet tanks. This very simple weapon consisted of a steel tube containing a propellant charge of gunpowder. The grenade, which consisted of a small bomb attached to a wooden stem and fins, was inserted into the front end of the tube. When a firing pin on the outside of the tube was tripped, it set off a percussion cap that ignited the propellant charge. This in turn propelled the grenade a short distance to the target, where it exploded. The hollow-charge head of the grenade contained enough high explosive to penetrate even the thickest tank armour (up to 200 millimetres). The exhaust from the propellant charge exited the rear end of the tube, making the Panzerfaust a recoilless weapon. The Panzerfaust 30 was a one-shot, disposable weapon. Its range was only 100 feet (30 metres), but a determined operator could nevertheless destroy a tank with it. The next two models of the weapon employed during World War II were given larger propellant charges in order to drive grenades to distances of up to 200 and 350 feet (60 and 100 metres), respectively. The Panzerfaust 100, which entered service in November 1944, weighed 11 pounds (5 kilograms), was 41 inches (105 centimetres) long and approximately 2 inches in diameter, and launched a grenade containing 3.5 pounds of high explosive. A fourth model, ready by early 1945, could fire 10 grenades in succession before exhausting its propellant. Besides the Soviet Red Army in the east, the Panzerfaust was also used against American and British tanks on the Western front. The weapon was extremely easy to load, aim, and fire, and so it was widely distributed to untrained conscripts and the Volkssturm (local defense militias) in the closing phases of the war. Captured models contributed to the design of the Soviet RPG series of rocket-propelled antitank grenades, and during the Cold War the West German army, facing Soviet tanks of increasing size and power, issued its own series of rocket-propelled Panzerfaust launchers. The Panzerfaust 3, designed in the 1980s, features a pistol grip and telescopic sight and enough propellant to be fired effectively at up to 1,200 feet. Its grenade can penetrate 700 millimetres of armour. Panzerschreck (German: "Tank Terror"), shoulder-type rocket launcher used as an antitank weapon by the German army in World War II. The Panzerschreck consisted of a lightweight steel tube about 5 feet (150 centimetres) long that weighed about 20 pounds (9 kilograms). The tube was open at both ends and was fitted with a hand grip, trigger mechanism, and sights. The tube launched a 7.25-pound rocket-propelled grenade that had a diameter of 3.5 inches (88 millimetres). After loading the rocket in the tube and aiming the weapon at the target, the operator successively pulled two firing triggers, the first to cock the tube's magnetic ignition system and the second to release it, thereby generating a small electrical current that ignited the rocket's motor. The operator was protected from the rocket's backblast by holding the tube on his shoulder with about half the tube protruding behind him. The rocket's low speed in flight meant that the Panzershreck's maximum effective range was about 500 feet (150 metres). The rocket carried a powerful hollow-charge explosive that could penetrate 8.25 inches of armour, thicker than that of any Allied tank. The Panzerschreck was first used by the Germans in 1943. The United States claimed that the Germans had copied its design from the U.S. Army's bazooka, which was supplied to the Soviet Red Army in 1942 and had fallen into German hands. In any case, the bazooka certainly stimulated the Germans in their own efforts to design a similar weapon. The Panzerschreck was widely issued to German infantry units and was one of their two main handheld antitank weapons, the other being the Panzerfaust. http://search2.eb.com/normandy/articles/Panzerfaust.html http://search2.eb.com/normandy/articles/Panzerschreck.html Regards Michael

Hi Follow the link for some Combat Mission Screenshots. http://www.xcombat.co.uk/combat_mission.htm Regards Michael