{"id":48121,"date":"2019-06-28T02:00:15","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T06:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=48121"},"modified":"2020-03-30T20:37:20","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T00:37:20","slug":"panzerbuchse-39-german-anti-tank-rifle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/06\/28\/panzerbuchse-39-german-anti-tank-rifle\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Panzerb\u00fcchse<\/em> 39 German Anti-Tank Rifle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jupKqqqgBJM\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Forgotten Weapons<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Published on 7 Apr 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sold for $37,375.<\/p>\n<p>Most countries still had anti-tank rifles in their military inventory at the beginning of WWII &#8211; the Solothurn S18-100, the Lahti L39, the Boys AT Rifle, the PTRD and PTRS, and so on. For Germany, this role was fulfilled by the <em>Panzerb\u00fcchse<\/em> 39, a single-shot falling block rifle firing a high velocity 8mm AP cartridge. It was nominally effective in the opening campaigns of the war, but was quickly rendered obsolete as Allied armor improved. German planners has a huge number (25,000) of these on hand for the invasion of Russia, where they expected Russian armor to be vulnerable to them &#8211; which was not the case. Most were subsequently converted into <em>Granatb\u00fcchse<\/em> 39 AT grenade launchers, which were then used until the end of the war.<\/p>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons Merch! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?q=http%3A%2F%2Fshop.bbtv.com%2Fcollections%2Fforgotten-weapons&#038;v=jupKqqqgBJM&#038;redir_token=mutJx2K5P6vMvAVKgk6zoj80tOJ8MTU1NjYyOTc3NUAxNTU2NTQzMzc1&#038;event=video_description\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forg&#8230;<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screenshot_2019-06-28-Panzerb\u00fcchse-39-German-Anti-Tank-Rifle.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screenshot_2019-06-28-Panzerb\u00fcchse-39-German-Anti-Tank-Rifle-480x270.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-49274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screenshot_2019-06-28-Panzerb\u00fcchse-39-German-Anti-Tank-Rifle-480x270.png 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screenshot_2019-06-28-Panzerb\u00fcchse-39-German-Anti-Tank-Rifle-150x84.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screenshot_2019-06-28-Panzerb\u00fcchse-39-German-Anti-Tank-Rifle-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screenshot_2019-06-28-Panzerb\u00fcchse-39-German-Anti-Tank-Rifle-853x480.png 853w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screenshot_2019-06-28-Panzerb\u00fcchse-39-German-Anti-Tank-Rifle.png 930w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forgotten Weapons Published on 7 Apr 2015 Sold for $37,375. Most countries still had anti-tank rifles in their military inventory at the beginning of WWII &#8211; the Solothurn S18-100, the Lahti L39, the Boys AT Rifle, the PTRD and PTRS, and so on. For Germany, this role was fulfilled by the Panzerb\u00fcchse 39, a single-shot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1118,7,5,663,230],"tags":[991,1366,49],"class_list":["post-48121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-germany","category-history","category-military","category-weapons","category-ww2","tag-afvs","tag-forgottenweapons","tag-guns"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-cw9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48121"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55993,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48121\/revisions\/55993"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}