Rent-A-Cop posted:

Is that a shaped charge on a stick?

Volcott posted:

Yes. Shitotsubakurai or lunge mine.

>The pokey bits are nails to ensure the proper standoff range for the warhead to function properly. The fuze was activated by a ripcord. So you'd have to run up, jam the thing at the enemy tank, then pull a cord to activate the warhead and probably kill yourself.

quote:

When the legs of the mine hit the objective, the handle was pulled forward, cutting a pin and making the detonator move forward to the detonator charge. This would set off the mine, blowing up its user and, probably, the targeted enemy armour.

Synthbuttrange posted:

PittTheElder posted:

Yeah there's no ripcord.

Volcott posted:

Yes. Shitotsubakurai or lunge mine.

>The pokey bits are nails to ensure the proper standoff range for the warhead to function properly. The fuze was activated by a ripcord. So you'd have to run up, jam the thing at the enemy tank, then pull a cord to activate the warhead and probably kill yourself.

C.M. Kruger posted:

C.M. Kruger posted:

Powershift posted:

loving gremlins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZElJxTCIsJI

https://i.imgur.com/QUWlZTf.mp4

Cojawfee posted:

There's all kinds of crazy suicide poo poo people do. The Wikipedia article about anti-tank warfare has a section on suicide attacks. China and Korea would both strap bombs to people and have them run up to a tank, lay down between the treads and then blow up when the tank rolled over them which exploited the weak underside armor of the tank. I guess you can't really complain to OSHA if your job involves blowing up.

Jerry Cotton posted:

The Soviets had a sharpened log used against them.

shovelbum posted:

That's some ewok poo poo

Jerry Cotton posted:

Well, sharpened logs and booze so yes.

Jerry Cotton posted:

The Soviets had a sharpened log used against them.

chitoryu12 posted:

Tank Archives (run by our very own Ensign Expendable!) had a story about a Soviet soldier stopping a German light tank with stuff like mud and branches. He clogged the engine vents so it would start overheating and jammed branches into the gun ports to prevent them from traversing. Eventually the crew compartment started filling with smoke from the clogged exhaust so they had to bail out.

chitoryu12 posted:

Tank Archives (run by our very own Ensign Expendable!) had a story about a Soviet soldier stopping a German light tank with stuff like mud and branches. He clogged the engine vents so it would start overheating and jammed branches into the gun ports to prevent them from traversing. Eventually the crew compartment started filling with smoke from the clogged exhaust so they had to bail out.

Cojawfee posted:

There's all kinds of crazy suicide poo poo people do. The Wikipedia article about anti-tank warfare has a section on suicide attacks. China and Korea would both strap bombs to people and have them run up to a tank, lay down between the treads and then blow up when the tank rolled over them which exploited the weak underside armor of the tank. I guess you can't really complain to OSHA if your job involves blowing up.

PostNouveau posted:

The Soviets used to train dogs to do this. Just spend a few weeks teaching them to run up and lay under a tank for treats, and then get them out on the battlefield with a bomb strapped to them.

The initial plan was for them to run up and leave the bomb and run away, but that didn't work so they switched to doggy suicide bombers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-tank_dog

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The first group of anti-tank dogs arrived at the frontline at the end of the summer of 1941 and included 30 dogs and 40 trainers. Their deployment revealed some serious problems. In order to save fuel and ammunition, dogs had been trained on tanks which stood still and did not fire their guns. In the field, the dogs refused to dive under moving tanks. Some persistent dogs ran near the tanks, waiting for them to stop but were shot in the process. Gunfire from the tanks scared away many of the dogs. They would run back to the trenches and often detonated the charge upon jumping in, killing Soviet soldiers. To prevent that, the returning dogs had to be shot, often by their controllers and this made the trainers unwilling to work with new dogs. Some went so far as to say that the army did not stop with sacrificing people to the war and went on to slaughter dogs too; those who openly criticized the program were persecuted by "special departments" (military counterintelligence).[3] Out of the first group of 30 dogs, only four managed to detonate their bombs near the German tanks, inflicting an unknown amount of damage. Six exploded upon returning to the Soviet trenches, killing and injuring soldiers.[3] Three dogs were shot by German troops and taken away, despite furious attempts by the Soviets to prevent this, which provided examples of the detonation mechanism to the Germans. A captured German officer later reported that they learned of the anti-tank dog design from the killed animals, and considered the program desperate and inefficient. A German propaganda campaign sought to discredit the Red Army, saying that Soviet soldiers refuse to fight and send dogs instead.[3]

Another serious training mistake was revealed later; the Soviets used their own diesel engine tanks to train the dogs rather than German tanks which had gasoline engines.[5] As the dogs relied on their acute sense of smell, the dogs sought out familiar Soviet tanks instead of strange-smelling German tanks.[7] This effectively meant that the Soviets had trained the dogs to sabotage their own army.

Shut up Meg posted:

bring back old gbs posted:

The Germans, on the other hand,

used the Japanese

wilderthanmild posted:

I think they tried some wonderwaffe poo poo with remote control bomb tank things.

Then they gave up and started giving old men and boys panzerfausts but not teaching them anything other than how to shot them.

Cojawfee posted:

How do I shot faust

wilderthanmild posted:

I think they tried some wonderwaffe poo poo with remote control bomb tank things.

Then they gave up and started giving old men and boys panzerfausts but not teaching them anything other than how to shot them.

madeintaipei posted:

Infantry anti-tank work is suuuuper OSHA.

Big Dick Cheney posted:

Remember that guy from Saving Private Ryan?

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Sometimes, you have to make do with what you have, even when fighting tanks. And sometimes, all you have are ordinary tools. In that case, what you do might show up in a newspaper, and then, with the help of artists from "Combat Pencil", a magazine.



"1. Soldier Kulishev was out scouting one night. An enemy tank crawled out of the forest. He threw a bundle of grenades, and the tank stopped.

2. The tank opened fire, but no one answered. Kulishev took off his boots and silently climbed up on the tank.

3. The hatch opened, and a fascist tanker peeked out. Kulishev hit him in the head with his shovel. The fascist fell back, and the hatch closed.

4. Not wasting time, Kulishev blocked the machine guns with branches, covered observation ports with clay, and blocked the air intakes.

5. The fascists started choking and climbing out of the tank. Kulishev knocked out a second one with his shovel. The third one surrendered. This is how, with bravery, initiative, and quick wits, soldier Kulishev defeated a tank one on one.

Izvestiya, from July 17th, 1941"

The illustration shows a PzI, but, seeing as how he took out three crewmen, it was most likely a PzII.

RandomFerret posted:

This is my favourite anti-tank weapon:



I got to sit on one of these at the military museum in Ottawa, and it's not quite as crazy as it looks. It wasn't intended to be fired while moving, the French military wanted an extremely light mobile artillery platform for paratroopers to use, so these would go down with a two man crew. They'd pop out the bipod, take a couple pot shots, then hop back on and move someplace else before the enemy could respond.

RandomFerret posted:

This is my favourite anti-tank weapon:



I got to sit on one of these at the military museum in Ottawa, and it's not quite as crazy as it looks. It wasn't intended to be fired while moving, the French military wanted an extremely light mobile artillery platform for paratroopers to use, so these would go down with a two man crew. They'd pop out the bipod, take a couple pot shots, then hop back on and move someplace else before the enemy could respond.

Chomp8645 posted:

He protec

He attack

But most importantly

He break track

Kibayasu posted:

He broke himself more than any track.

wesleywillis posted:

The russians should have used anti-tank kittens.
The nazzies would have gotten out of their tanks to pet the kittens and would have been taken out by enemy fire.