11 replies to this topic

[Waris]

[Razven]

That German looks like a Jew.

But asides from that, looks like the thing should be traveling on a trajectory of some sort to reach the target. Instead of say just flying straight into the target.

[Waris]

Yeah, the ladder type sight is of course essential to trajectory-firing weapons e.g. grenade launcher.

[TehKiller]

Old rocket launchers simply werent strong enough to fire a rocket straight (well neither are some RPGs but at least they go further than the old WW2 stuff)....though there is a good thing about that though only if youre masterful with the Panzerfaust you can fling a rocket over a small wall or obstacle

[Razven]

Or you could misjudge the arc and have the Panzerfaust slam into the wall, possibly blowing up in your face too.

[Eddy01741]

Uh.... Panzer Faust was like the first incarnation of a real dedicated grenade launcher, people think it's like a bazooka though (I did too). But in reality it's simply a one shot grenade launcher that was moderately effective against tanks and very effective against armored vehicles, and was small enough for every soldier to have one or more. the PanzerShreck was the real bazooka.

[Sgt. Rho]

Wasn´t a PZF a missile launcher?

[TehKiller]

uhhh no...IIRC there was a Panzerfaust-3 that was able to defeat modern armor....though i might be wrong

[Eddy01741]

Here, lemme show y'all.

PanzerFaust:







PanzerShrek:





Panzerfaust-3:

[Nerdsturm]

The use of the word missile implies that it has some sort of guidance, so the older versions at least weren't classified as that. I think that, like the bazooka and panzershreck, they are considered to be a recoilless rifle since the charge completely goes off inside the tube. They do work a lot like grenade launchers, but the head is a shaped charge and, although I don't know the exact definition of a grenade, I really don't think that that is what it was.

[AllStarZ]

The Panzerfaust is a recoilless launcher.

Anyways, the sight was unnecessary, considering the range it is most often used at.

[Eddy01741]

 Nerdsturm, on 20 Jun 2007, 11:57, said:

The use of the word missile implies that it has some sort of guidance, so the older versions at least weren't classified as that. I think that, like the bazooka and panzershreck, they are considered to be a recoilless rifle since the charge completely goes off inside the tube. They do work a lot like grenade launchers, but the head is a shaped charge and, although I don't know the exact definition of a grenade, I really don't think that that is what it was.

The word your looking for is a anti-tank grenade.



It's a bad pic, I have better ones inside a couple books I got, but my scanner is disfunctional.

That one is a pretty small anti-tank grenade, there were bigger ones in WWII, like the size of the panzer-faust "projectile".