Finnish Anti-tank Methods

The Finns used the Panzerfaust and Panzerschreck as well. They even used abridged versions of the German manuals, with the exact same illustrations and images.

 

With a little help from http://www.wwiivehicles.com and google I found this:
Nahverteidigungswaffe (Close Defense Weapon)

 

It should be added to that article, that the Germans also had a curved barrel for the M.P.44 (Vorsatz "P"), mounted in a ball mantlet through the roof, though it wasn't installed in many vehicles before the war was over. British post-war tests suggested that the curved barrel gave it shorter range and worse accuracy when using rapid fire, but that the rounds had greater stopping power.

 

Hello.

This weapon fired the 7.92mm X 33 (Kurz) cartridge, its normal ammunition,and I read that the cartridges split up during the shooting.
There was also the MP 44 with a 30° Kurmmlauf curved barrel device.
It was fitted with a prismatic optical sight which permited fairly accurate shooting from a wall.
The MP 44 with 90° Kurmmlauf cuved barrel for tanks.

 

Krummlauf isn't one of the names I've seen for at least the 90 degrees version. Rheinmetall-Borsig refers to it at Maschinepistole Vorsatz "P"...

 

nahverteidigungswaffe

Thanks for the info and links markus.
If anyone is interested in the brief details - introduced 1943/44, mostly used as an under-armour smoke discharger being a safer alternative to the vulnerable smoke candles. Also used for close defence firing a small munition with 1 second time delay fuse out to about 7m, exploded in circular pattern about 0.5 - 2m above ground. Projector had fixed angle and bore of 92mm. Anti-personnel round not thought to be very effective.

 

Finn at defence

There used to be an excellent website on Finnish equipment during the second world war. What i rememember from it was that a kind of geballte lading was taken in production in Finland as at weapon. Basically it consisted of a stielhandgranate with its charge encased in a box of explosives. The idea wes that the handgrenade would be used as a primer for the explosive charge surrounding it. The box had thin iron hooks on it so it would cling to any projection on the tank.


Aglooka

 

here it is:

http://www.jaegerplatoon.net/MAIN.html

everything you want to know about finnish at weapons and much more
nice detail: standard bottling machinery was used to mass produce molotov cocktails.

aglooka