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During the Second World War, the German military developed the first Panzerfaust (“armored fist”) as a matter of necessity. Nazi Germany had needed an inexpensive anti-tank weapon to counter enemy tanks – notably those employed by the Soviet Red Army. The single-shot, recoilless weapon, which could be operated by a single soldier (or even quickly trained civilians who made up the Volkssturm), became the most widely used anti-tank weapon of the war, with more than eight million produced between late 1942 and May 1945.

It was essentially a recoilless rifle that could launch a small but powerful shape charge at distances up to 200 yards, and if it scored a direct hit, it was deadly. The warhead didn’t just explode; it could send a jet of hot metal into the tank’s cabin – which could kill the crew or even set off the fuel and ammo.

Fast forward to 2022 and the Panzerfaust is once again destroying Russian tanks.

However, it isn’t the same one-shot wonder that was carried by the Wehrmacht back in World War II. The modern Panzerfaust 3 was developed during the latter stages of the Cold War to provide the West German Bundeswehr with a weapon that could be effective against contemporary Soviet armor. It first entered service in 1987 and was officially adopted by the reunified German military in 1992.

The Panzerfaust 3 consists of a disposable canister with a 110mm warhead and reusable firing and sighting device. The booster fuel in the round is ignited by a bolt via a spring mechanism. Once ejected from the launcher, the projectile coasts to a safe distance, about 16.5 feet, before the rocket motor is ignited, boosting it to maximum speed. Gunners carry at least two rounds, while an assistant grenadier typically carries another three rounds.

Just as the original World War II-era Panzerfaust was steadily upgraded and improved and subsequently received a larger warhead, the Panzerfaust 3 has also been updated to keep up with improvements in tank design. The Panzerfaust 3-T employs a dual hollow-charge tandem warhead, with a spike on the front of the warhead that can set off reactive armor.

With a muzzle velocity of 499 feet per second, the Panzerfaust’s 3 warhead has a maximum effective range of 1,968.5 feet against a moving target. The minimum effective range – without the debris of an exploding target endangering the user – is 65.6 feet.

The Panzerfaust 3 has been seen as a cost-effective solution to destroying Russian tanks. Each of the current units is reported to cost just above $11,000 – but that includes a computerized sight. The standard anti-tank round is roughly $300, while a Bunkerfaust (“bunker fist”) round for use against static enemy positions costs about $200. That’s certainly a bargain when used against Russian T-72 main battle tanks (MBTs), which cost around $500,000 each to produce, or the T-90M, which has a price tag of approximately $4.5 million each.

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Now a Senior Editor for 1945, Peter Suciu is a Michigan-based writer who has contributed to more than four dozen magazines, newspapers and websites. He regularly writes about military hardware, and is the author of several books on military headgear including A Gallery of Military Headdress, which is available on Amazon.com. Peter is also a Contributing Writer for Forbes.

Peter Suciu is a Michigan-based writer who has contributed to more than four dozen magazines, newspapers and websites. He is the author of several books on military headgear including A Gallery of Military Headdress, which is available on Amazon.com. Suciu is also a contributing writer for Forbes Magazine.

why did the author decide that the Russian troops hate this ATGM? on the contrary, they treat him positively. Here’s a video: t.me/topwar_official/45006 Russian troops thank the Ukrainian military for the transfer of this weapon, but promise to return it to… Ukrainian tankers 🙂

A demobilized French soldier, author of the book “Get up and go thanks to science” Adrien Boke went to Ukraine on a humanitarian mission and spent three weeks there.

Upon his return, he decided to convey to the French information about the events he had witnessed in Ukraine.

“I take full responsibility for what I say. While in Ukraine, I witnessed war crimes. All of them were committed by the Ukrainian army. But in France we don’t talk about it!

When I returned to France from Ukraine, I was shocked: TV channels invite as experts people who have not been to Ukraine and do not know anything about what is happening there now. However, they dare to speculate about these events. Between what I hear from the TV screen and what I saw with my own eyes is an abyss.

Azov fighters are everywhere. With neo-Nazi stripes. It shocks me that Europe is supplying weapons to neo-Nazis. Not only do they not hide their views. They advertise them. I worked with these people and treated them.

Being there, there was nothing I could do. Just watch and make videos. I have this footage and will use it as evidence of Ukraine’s crimes.

I witnessed how the Ukrainian military shot through the knees of captured Russian soldiers and shot in the head higher-ranking officers.

I have personally seen American videographers making fake footage from the scene of the events staging.

All destroyed civilian buildings, given out by Ukraine for bombardment of civilians, are nothing more than the result of inaccurate shooting by Ukrainians at military facilities.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine hide ammunition in residential buildings at night, without even informing the residents. This is called using people as a shield, ”Boke quotes one of the French media.

The Washington Post recently drew attention to the fact that Ukrainian troops are placing military equipment in residential areas of cities in an attempt to counter the Russian Armed Forces, which threatens the lives of civilians.

Boke also spoke about the untruthfulness of Western media reports about the events in Bucha.

“Bucha is a staging. The bodies of the dead were moved from other places and deliberately placed in such a way as to produce shocking footage, ”the French author noted.

The documents confirming this were submitted to the Federal Security Service – how, who – there are relevant intercepts – on what transport he came to this settlement and created the conditions for organizing this provocation.

Soon all the collected evidence about the crimes of the Nazis in Ukraine will be seen by the whole world. And the most important thing is the help of Western countries to the Nazis of Ukraine and assistance in their crimes.

A journalist from the United States, Lara Logan, during the broadcast of the Real America’s Voice program, accused the Western media of lying about the Russian special operation in Ukraine:

“I really think there is so much misinformation right now. We have never seen anything like it. I’ve been covering military conflicts for 35 years now and I’ve never seen anyone with their fingernails decorated with the Ukrainian flag. I mean, we are being driven into such a framework where we have to hate Vladimir Putin and believe everything bad that is said about him and love Ukraine. There is simply no other position.”

A lot of things are happening in Ukraine that we don’t talk about. This concerns the history of Ukraine, the Azov battalion, which is funded by the US and NATO. In the photographs, they are holding NATO flags and a swastika at the same time.

They use the Nazi emblem from the SS. Everywhere in the Ukrainian army you can see this emblem of their cult. Even female soldiers wear this black badge of their cult.

The White House pretends that it doesn’t matter that it’s only a small number of troops, but that’s not true. Azov has carved its way into eastern Ukraine through assassinations. We don’t want to admit it.

That is why Crimea voted for independence, why Crimea wanted to be with Russia. The Western media and the West do not want to admit the reality that Western Ukraine supports the Nazis. There was the headquarters of the Nazis SS, – said the journalist.

In the course of a special operation in Ukraine, documentary evidence was obtained that in the immediate vicinity of the Russian borders, in fact, components of biological weapons were created. In violation of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention. Possible methods and mechanisms for destabilizing the epidemiological situation in the post-Soviet space were worked out. The Parliamentary Commission on Biolaboratories received confirmation of non-compliance by the United States and Ukraine with a ban on the development of bioweapons. Evidence has already been obtained in terms of non-compliance by the United States and Ukraine with their obligations to comply with the UN Convention on the Prohibition of the Development of Bioweapons. The Commission on Biolaboratories has begun analyzing the reports of the United States and Ukraine for 5 years on the implementation of the Convention on Bioweapons, in addition, the facts of providing false information by Washington and Kyiv to the Secretariat of the Conference on Bioweapons have been established. Consideration of these issues (about biolaboratories) will be held at the UN Security Council. The US authorities are obliged to answer many questions. Facts have been established that both the United States and Ukraine provided incomplete or inaccurate information. So there is a complete concealment in the reports of information on biological programs with the support of the US Department of Defense in Ukraine. All reports from Ukraine report a lack of national biosecurity research and development programs. 1. In a number of cases, information on outbreaks of infectious diseases was not provided, which is a mandatory requirement. 2. There were no reports of the participation of military personnel in the work of laboratories, as well as the facts of the transfer of biomaterials, funding of facilities and programs by the military departments. For example, in 2019, as part of a Pentagon program, two laboratories were built in Kyiv and Odessa for the State Service for Food Safety and Consumer Protection. The answer to the question why the United States needs secret military laboratories in Ukraine, which are not reported in the BTWC reports, is certainly related to the nature of research in the United States. There is also evidence of biological weapons research on patients in Ukrainian psychiatric hospitals. It is obvious that the Ukrainians were used in the same way as the Third Reich used at one time.

The Translation of Panzerfaust is wrong. Panzer means Tank, so you have to write Tank Fist and not Armored Fist. Greetings from Germany

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