Anti-tank weapons/that will make the British Army proof against tank attack have been perfected by gun experts at Woolwich Arsenal, writes the "Sunday Chronicle" military correspondent.
After three years of intensive. ex. periment and research they have i vented an anti-tank gun and an antitank rifle.
Infantry armed with the anti-tank rifle will be able to stand up to tanks and beat them.
A, two-pound shell fitted with a special armour-piercing nozzle, is fired by the anti-tank gun. This shell can penetrate the armour plates of any tonk and explode inside. One direct hit from an anti-tank gun means death to the whole tank crew and the destruction of the entire mechanism.
The gun travels on a small rubber-tyred truck and is so light that it can be taken up into the front line. It can be stripped from the truck, mounted on a tripod, and brought into action in less than 30 seconds.
It fires with terrific.rapidity and can blow up a tank a mile away.
The anti-tank rifle is made for use against whippet tanks. and fires special armour-piercing bullets which can bring a tank to a standstill at a range of 500 yards.
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