TYPES OF ANTI-TANK WEAPONS USED IN THE YUGOSLAV ARMY.

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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 11, 2013
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: May 8, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. The
following Soviet anti-tank weapons are used in the Yugoslav Army;
45 mm. anti-tank .cannon. M-37 and 1?42, which is similar to the
German 37 mm,, anti-tank cannon0
range against armor
destructive range
special range
munition
40500 m.
2,500 m,
600 m V? equal 800 .
Shell with cap to prevent rebound,
used at distances up to 600 m. The
armor piercing shell weighs 2.4 kg.,
with bottom detonator. The impact
shell weighs 2.5 kg. ?
b. 76 mm0 anti-tank cannon, 0Z1p-3n, M-360? Practical range is 60000 m.
c. Anti-tank cannon with revolving platform, 76 mm0 caliber, known as
SU-76.
.d. Anti-tank cannon with revolving platform, 85 mm. caliber.? The
mount for the cannon is similar to that of the Soviet tank T-34. A
special steel ball envelops the barrel at the point where it projects
from the armor, preventing any unnecessary opening between barrel
and armor.
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following German weapons are used in the Yugoslav Armys
37 mm0 anti-tank cannon, 14-30
45 mm anti-tank cannon, effective range 1000 in.
50 mm0 anti-tank cannon, m-20
75 mm, anti-tank cannon, 14-40
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3. Italian weapons are listed as follows;
a. 47 mm. anti-tank cannon
b. bazookas. The factories in Zelesnik and Rakovica, and the
YTZ factory in Rragujevac are collaborating on making a new
anti-tank bazooka, patterned after the American model,
57 caliber, the weight of which is 52 kg.
Comment; Photographs of guns mentioned In para. 1 (b)
and (d) appeared in publications 86 and 87, March 1950, of Front,
the Yugoslav Army manual.
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