Rocket, antitank

Bozooka, also known as Rocket, Antitank, 2.36-incb,M6 and Launcher, Rocket, Antitank,til was designed in the US in the summer of 1942 as a one-man, shoulder-operated weapon, firing rockets... 

PIAT. Acronym for projector infantry antitank. A Brit WWII weapon based on the shaped charge effect. It fired a rocket-propelled charge weighing 3 lbs which could pierce 4-tnch armor plate Ref J. Quick, Dictionary of Weapons and Military Terms , McGraw Hill, NY (1973), 349... 

A familiar military use of this principle is the 3.5 inch antitank rocket, or bazooka round. The explosive charge in the head of the rocket has a conical cavity in the forward end. When the charge is detonated against the side of a tank, the shock waves emerging from the conical cavity are focused on one spot where they will penetrate several inches of tough steel. 

The U.S. 3.5" high explosive antitank rocket (or similar rockets used by other modem military forces) can be cannibalized or altered and used in a variety of improvised techniques. It can be placed as a shaped charge or land mine or it can be launched either electrically or nonelectrically without use of the rocket launcher. Such improvised firing offers the advantages of rigging the rocket as a booby trap or, at least, permitting the operator to be well out of the area before the rocket fires. 

High-explosive train) 181-84 (Small arms primers) 235-39 (Fuzes for hand grenades) 241-50 (Firing devices for antipersonnel mines and booby traps) 257 (Fuze for rifle grenade) 259-60 (Fuze for 2.36-inch rocket) 263-67 (Fuze for antitank mine) ... 

The newest trend in research and development in ammunition was along the line of Rockets (Roketto). Very few types were used during the war, but there were many experimental models of Antitank (Taisensha) and Artillery (Hohei) Rockets, ranging in size from 75mm to 60cm... 

Taisensha funshin toshaki. Antitank Rocket Launcher... 

Ever since the invention of NC and NG, attempts were made to apply them either by themselves or in mixtures for military purposes. Under the term uses for military purposes may be understood propellants in rifle, cannon, rocket and pyrotechnic ammunition booster and bursting charges in bombs, grenades, mines (land and sea), artillery projectiles, warheads of torpedoes and of rockets, etc military blasting operations, military cratering, military demolition, military excavation and production of antitank ditches... 

III) Detonation or Explosion., It can be conducted either by initiating the expls contained in ammo, or by the force of detonation of other expl material s placed in contact with the item. Ammo items which can be destroyed by these methods include artillery shells, aerial bombs, mortar shells, shrapnel shells, photoflash bombs, antitank mines, rockets, grenades (hand and rifle), loaded metal components (such as fuzes, primers, detonators, boosters bursters) and pyrotechnic... 

Antitank(A/T) Ammunition and Weapons include A/T grenades, guns, incendiaries, mines, rifle grenades and rockets... 

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