![]() ![]() As an indication, on the German side, the following figures (from Wikipedia as of April 3rd, 2023) give an overview: At the beginning of the conflict, many tanks were actually “light and medium” and therefore accessible to armaments of “reasonable” power (everything being relative…). Let’s not be so quick as to forget that the majority of tanks used during WWII were far from the armor level offered by the iconic Tiger and Tiger II tanks. If this is not surprising at the end of WWI, the appearance of an anti-tank rifle among the Soviets at the beginning of the “Great Patriotic War” raises more questions. And the answers were not long to come: among them, in 1918, the Germans lined up the legendary “Mauser M1918 TankGewehr” (also known as “T-Gewehr”) caliber 13.2×92 mm SR “ Tank und Flieger” (TuF), the first anti-tank rifle (Pic.02). In the eternal duel between sword and shield, the appearance of the tank during WWI called for an adequate response to this new actor on the battlefield.
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