Anti Tank Rifle Bullet Vs 50 Cal – EVEN THE SOVIET SOLDIERS USED THEIR ANTI TANK RIFLES TO TAKE OUT NAZI MACHINE GUN NESTS; MOST OF THE TIME, THEY MOVED UP AHEAD OF THEIR FORMATIONS TO TAKE CARE OF THE STUBBORN NAZI OPERATORS. APPARENTLY THE WEAPON COULD HAVE BEEN USEFUL IN ATTACHING THE VISION PORTS OF TANKS AND THEIR TRACKS.
My father was a Marine rifleman on Okinawa. He was in a column of troops going up a road, and he kept hearing rifle fire. It seemed like there was a junk Japanese tank by the side of the road, and every Marine wanted to see what his M-1 would do to it.
Anti Tank Rifle Bullet Vs 50 Cal
He said it looked like a colander by the time he got there. The armor was just to keep the brush off of the crew. Love it. I just love to spawn camping people with it.
It’s especially damn good with the Sagittarius 40x scope, turns it into a hand-held downsized tank cannon all of a sudden, and is guaranteed to make people either get mad at you, or votekick you because they’re annoyed by you using it.
10/10, would S T R O N G L Y recommend. Many of them died unnecessarily because they did not have the right weapon. Even the Japanese used their Type 98 20mm cannon to attack Soviet Tanks, AFVS, transports, VVS aircraft and hostile manpower during the numerous border battles and infiltrations in Mongolia.
He said that the Japanese Type 97 (1937) medium tank (37 or 47mm gun), the most advanced and heaviest tank they had, could be penetrated on the frontal aspect (glacis) by .30-06 rifle fire with standard semi armor-
piercing rounds at any range below 200 yards. Its sides and rear were vulnerable to .30-06 out to 300. They didn’t re-barrel T-Gewehrs, they re-barrelled PTRDs. I doubt there were any T-Gewehrs in Chinese service at that point with the nature of 13mm TuF not being produced or used by anyone after WW1.
There’s an example of a captured PTRD that was used for counter sniping in Korea. If they thought of using it as a scout car-cum-tank destroyer you’d have thought that they would have known that it would be entirely under gunned in Europe.
Perhaps they were thinking of USMC contracts or anti-Japanese operations for the Canadian military. Col. George Chinn USMC and others made up .50 cal. “heavy sniper” rifles in Korea, by using Mauser 1918 T-Gewehrs captured from the Chinese rebarreled with spare .50 M2 HB barrels. With 10x telescopic sights, they were extremely accurate out to 2000 yards.
Thanks for this great series on the work of Frank Burton, Ed Browning, and David Marshall Williams at the Cody Firearms Museum. I look forward to more in the future! You’ve just scratched the surface! ^__^
I remember reading that back in 1982 or 1983 before the barracks was bombed some Marines at the Beirut airport were taking sniper fire from some distance away. They used a scoped M2HB on single fire with spotters to take care of the problem.
This would have been very useful there and in Korea and Vietnam as well. Although I have not found a testing report, the gun was apparently tested by the Canadian military and performed quite well. It was never purchased or put into serial production, however, most likely because as an antitank rifle the .50 BMG cartridge was not effective by the end of World War II.
As for flamethrowers, they were also highly effective vs. bunkers, but mainly you wanted a tank-mounted one because the Japanese had a nasty habit of siting MG nests plus snipers in “spider holes” to enfilade the likely approaches of an infantryman with a backpack FT.
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Today I am shooting a Colt 1908 originally issued to the Shanghai Municipal Police in 1925. The gun was chosen for issue by William Fairbairn, who is best known for training OSS and SOE operatives […]
One oft-overlooked factor that contributed significantly to the reliability of Japanese tanks in the face of severe parts shortages and long, untenable supply lines in the PTO (Pacific Theater Of Operations) and CBI (China-Burma-India Theater), especially in the
later stages of the war, was the adoption of the diesel engine as a baseline powerplant, as opposed to the more maintenance-intensive and vulnerable gasoline engines that powered most Allied tanks. As a bonus from their POV, the muzzle brake on the Boys acted as a very effective flash suppressor, meaning night firing didn’t blind the shooter or spotter, and also didn’t advertise their position.
When fired without the brake (which the manual definitely said you shouldn’t), the .55in round had a stupendous muzzle flash at night, easily the equal of the 6-pounder (57mm) AT gun. The Japanese did have better tanks than the Type 97 Shinhoto Chi-Ha, namely the Type 1 and Type 3 mediums.
Both had significantly better armor than the Type 97, although still insufficient against the 75mm gun of the M4 Sherman. Neither tank was used in combat, again due to being reserved for the Home Islands. When I think of the poor devils who fought on Iwo Jima and other jungle battles, I wonder if this weapon could not have made a great difference in their dealings with the robust Jap sniper hideouts and other rural field fortifications.
Either way, a more versatile system would have been to use a 4×4 scout car or universal carrier chassis and and mount something like a bofours 40mm on it on a forward facing mount, like a STuG.
Not the cool Roosevelt – we know he liked his .405-caliber Big Medicine. I’m talking about the other one: Leszek found this on eBay (you can buy it if you want; I have no connection […]
I bought my fifty from Mr. Serbian about six years ago. Shot it one day and it’s been gathering dust since then. The quality is more than adequate for the price I paid. I’d recommend it.
…Weapons that were obsolete in the European theater (such as the 37mm anti-tank gun) were handy as hell on Iwo Jima. Once you own the air many slow but serviceable platforms ( Battleships ) are again militarily viable.
…Drones allow a weaker opponent to take away air supremacy. Changes the whole equation. I have had my Serbu 50 BMG for almost 2 years and I love it. Very fun to shoot, Never had any issues with her so far.
I do have a question about the barrel thread size as I plan to get suppressed. Does Serbu recommend any suppressor over another? The Type 97 Chi-Ha was, by the way, never armed with a 37mm gun.
The original main armament was a 57mm low velocity gun, which was later upgraded to the 47mm high velocity gun in the “Shinhoto” (new turret) version. The Shinhoto Chi-Ha was rarely encountered by the US forces, since most of them were reserved for Home Islands defense.
Even Okinawa didn’t have any, but the Japanese forces at Luzon did have a sizeable force. The 1911 .22 Conversion units don’t have a great reputation for accuracy, I can’t say for sure how well mine would shoot since I haven’t gone to the trouble of fitting it up to a match quality “lower.”
Mine is just a fun plinker. One of my high school teachers, an Army .50 gunner in Korea, stated that he was routinely tasked with countersniping duty. He said that once the .50 was aligned and the traverse and elevation gearing was locked down on the tripod, it would consistently fire five-shot groups about a foot across out to 2500 yards.
The SOP was to spot the sniper and reply with a two-second burst, which would be both AP and tracer. It would close out the series rather nicely if you could do a video showing the internals of an M1 carbine, intercut with the close=ups from your G30 and M2 videos, so we could see the similarities and how one evolved from the other.
(Not all of us have direct experience with M1 Carbines, y’know.) Everyone has an off day eventually, and for H&K one of those off days took the form of the P7M10. Introduced in 1991, the M10 was based on the frame and magazine body of the […]
I think either you ot or ex-boss must have confused the Type 97 medium tank Chi-Ha with the Type 95 light tank Ha-Go. The former had 25mm armor at turret and hull front and sides, except more (33-38mm) at gun mantlet and 17mm at lower front hull.
In any case enough to stop .30-06 AP even at point blank ranges. .50 cal AP might go through at close ranges, but even that would require a rare perfectly perpendicular hit. I have never heard of Japanese tank armor plate being of very bad quality, either, which penetration with .30-06 AP would require.
Really the best video on here for ages. Never heard about this rifle ever before. Barrett M82 is like 30lbs so pretty good effort. Just no one really thought too much “outside the box” on how this could be used for light armored vehicles, trucks, aircraft etc at longer ranges.
With a bit of fine tuning I’m sure it would have proved an awesome weapon. Mainly LRDG and SAS liked the Boys as a materiel destruction device because as one SAS veteran told me, “it beat crawling up to a German fighter on the ground to stick a time pencil in the fuel filler”.
I have the carbine version. I had several deaths in the immediate family so it got put into the safe for a few years and forgotten about. It had a problem with the bolt and even after several years when I finally sat down and figured it out, Mark stood behind it and sent me a new bolt.
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Mine was accurate enough to hunt the critters around the farm. Birdshot was very effective against pigeons up in the rafters, and safe enough from the short barrel to use in the horse sheds. Would not go through both sides of a cardboard box (corrugated).
Safer than a .177 pellet gun. I imagine weight might still have been an issue for using it as an anti-material rifle. I think the closest to a practically man portable anti-material rifle they got in WWII was the PTRD (PTRS being considered unreliable).
Most of the anti-tank rifles seem to have been too bulky to be considered worthwhile once the anti-tank part became obsolete. I know the Boys got some vehicle mounted use and the German PzB 39 got turned into a grenade launcher, but those are the only two later uses of anti-tank rifles in WWII I can think of (I’m sure there are plenty of examples
I’ve missed though). The .50 caliber M33 Ball has a plain bullet type. The cartridge has been adopted and made by at least 30 countries, including the United States, Britain, Canada, France, Belgium, Israel, the Netherlands, Japan, Singapore and Taiwan.
The cartridge has a soft steel-core bullet and is mainly used for practice. It is used in the M2, M3 and M85 machine guns.
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