"There are countless horrible things happening all over the world and horrible people prospering, but we must never allow them to disturb our equanimity or deflect us from our sacred duty to sabotage and annoy them whenever possible." -Auberon Waugh
Dunno why the Boys Anti-tank rifle is there. It's one of the best AT rifles of the 1930s (when most tanks were actually machine-gun armed tankettes).
8th Division men in Malaya knocked out numbers of Japanese tanks with it, and it was good at killing Japanese infantry in rubber plantations. You shot straight through the two-foot think treetrunk they took cover behind.
In the Desert war it could and did take out a Pz Mk II at 300 yards. Only with the Pz Mk III did it start to lag behind the armoured thickness. And even there it could pierce the side armour at 250 yards without much trouble.
I've fired one and the recoil's not too bad either. Bit worse than a Barrett but not much.
Perhaps the Holder Armory & Export, Ltd could acquire some of these for export to the Mexican drug lords.
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Dunno why the Boys Anti-tank rifle is there. It's one of the best AT rifles of the 1930s (when most tanks were actually machine-gun armed tankettes).
ReplyDelete8th Division men in Malaya knocked out numbers of Japanese tanks with it, and it was good at killing Japanese infantry in rubber plantations. You shot straight through the two-foot think treetrunk they took cover behind.
In the Desert war it could and did take out a Pz Mk II at 300 yards. Only with the Pz Mk III did it start to lag behind the armoured thickness. And even there it could pierce the side armour at 250 yards without much trouble.
I've fired one and the recoil's not too bad either. Bit worse than a Barrett but not much.
Mk50 of Brisbane