The Panzerfaust (German: [ˈpantsɐˌfaʊst], lit. 'tank fist' or 'armour fist', [2] plural: Panzerfäuste) was a development family of single-shot man-portable anti-tank systems developed by Nazi Germany during World War II.

Panzerfaust, shoulder-type German antitank weapon that was widely used in World War II. The first model, the Panzerfaust 30, was developed in 1943 for use by infantry against Soviet tanks. The Panzerfaust consisted of a steel tube containing a propellant charge of gunpowder.

2022年9月20日 · The Panzerfaust is popularly associated with being a last-ditch weapon, wielded by the old men and young boys of the Volkssturm in the final days of the Third Reich. Yet by the end of the war, 8.3 million of these cheap, hand-launched tank-killers had been produced, and between September 1943 and May 1945 they accounted for a significant ...

The extremely high tank losses of the Soviets in the last months of the Second World War (which significantly exceeded even the highest Russian production figures at that time) in the battle for German cities are most likely due to the constantly increasing use of the Panzerfaust.

2020年10月30日 · The Panzerfaust had limited range, limited stopping power, and required brave troops to draw deeply into a tank’s range to kill it, but it was still one of the more effective tank weapons of the war, and they instilled fear in Allied tank crews forced to drive against it.

2023年6月6日 · The Panzerfaust, a crude yet deadly anti-tank weapon, transformed the battlefield with its potent ability to penetrate armor. This article unravels the story of this humble device that armed even the least experienced German soldier with the power to destroy the mightiest tanks.

2012年5月3日 · Larger but lighter than the Faustpatrone, the Panzerfaust had a harder-hitting 1.8-pound warhead that could penetrate up to 8 inches of armor. Introduced in September 1944, the Panzerfaust 60 was the most common version (1.3 million of the 6 million produced), with a wider tube diameter that boosted the muzzle velocity to 150 feet per second ...

2022年2月6日 · Panzerfaust was introduced in 1943 as Germany’s answer to improving Soviet tank technology during World War II. It was an improvement from Faustpatrone, a recoilless prototype with a shaped...

2012年6月11日 · The Panzerfaust became an iconic weapon: for the Nazis, a symbol of dogged, last-ditch resistance; for the Allies, one of the deadliest threats they faced as the war in Europe reached a crescendo of violence with the storming of the Third Reich in …

2016年11月17日 · To Allied tank crews during World War II, the Panzerfaust was one of the German army’s deadliest weapons behind the static 88-millimeter cannon, the rocket-propelled...