Kingfish Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 Came across this while searching for info on German recoilless rifles. Dora and her cousins 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corvidae Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 Cool, 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingfish Posted January 8, 2007 Author Share Posted January 8, 2007 Speaking of recoilless rifles, did the Germans ever mount these on vehicle platforms, such as the 251/1? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoffel Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 No,maybe some individual units did. But no standard vehicles. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joachim Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 RL Rifles have the advantage of being small. Why put a small item on a vehicle that could carry a big one and instead give the small one to a foot troop? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonS Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 Wombat. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingfish Posted January 9, 2007 Author Share Posted January 9, 2007 Originally posted by Joachim: RL Rifles have the advantage of being small. Why put a small item on a vehicle that could carry a big one and instead give the small one to a foot troop? You could make the same argument with regards to the 20mm flak and 81mm mortar, yet both were very useful when mounted on light AFV. One advantage to mounting a RR on a vehicle is to overcome a disadvantage inherent to RR, that being the backblast. Its like a huge "Hey, here we are!" neon sign flashing over the crew when they fire. Having a vehicle mounted RR at least gives the crew a chance to shoot and scoot before they cop a salvo of 75mm HE. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mike Posted January 9, 2007 Share Posted January 9, 2007 Captured Bren carrier with 3 Pz-shreks mounted on it: "Dedicated" AT vehicle Panzerjäger Borgward B IVc Ausf m RPzB 54 Descriptions are at The Panzerfaust page 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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