Panzerfaust x10 - an improvised field launcher?

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Panzerfaust x10 - an improvised field launcher?

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Post by beaviso » 22 May 2016, 13:22

I came across these photos in Soviet records dating from March 1945, describing the battles for Gdansk/Danzig. The remaining photos in the records are tightly connected to the narrow context of the document, so I do believe that the ones shown below were also taken in March 1945, somewhere in the close vicinity of Danzig.

I am wondering what was the purpose of such installation, as it seems to be "fixed" and unable to aim at the target. Ignition mechanisms seem to be wired to the dugout, where probably the operator took his hideout. Further discussion is welcome.

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Post by jopaerya » 22 May 2016, 20:53

Very nice picture's Beaviso


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Post by K.Kocjancic » 22 May 2016, 21:15

When Panzerfaust met Katyusha ... Perhaps they were trying to make it in Katyusha.

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Post by Grzesio » 24 May 2016, 16:15

These are Pzf 30 m, they seem to be set at the elevation angle for the max. sighting distance, i.e 40 m. Not an impressive performance. :)
Maybe the installation was initially invented for blocking narrow passages, as streets, bridges or so, while the Soviets are only testing it in the open field. I think the brick cammo suggests, the weapon was originally meant to be used in urban areas.

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Post by Edward L. Hsiao » 11 Jun 2016, 07:14

Gentlemen,

Another one of those German inventions that was improvised in the field! I only wonder how of them were made and used in action against the Soviet Army? What would the German soldiers think of next? The Germans were experts of improvised field weapons especially rocket launchers. A lot of these improvised weapons are unknown to us even today.

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Post by Andrzej Ditrich » 28 Jan 2017, 13:52

That's how this device looked like:
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Post by Edward L. Hsiao » 04 Feb 2017, 07:44

Gentlemen,

I only wish that we have more information about this weapon device. I don't know if it had success against Soviet tanks.

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Post by ROLAND1369 » 04 Feb 2017, 15:24

Given that the device pictured is elevated to between 40 and 45 degrees, I doubt that it was intended for anti-tank work but for anti-personnel coverage of "dead zones", that is those areas of a defense which cannot be covered by direct gunfire such as wooded areas or depressions in the ground. Th lack of traverse in the mount would seem to reinforce this and preclude effective anti-tank use. This application seems more a "poor mans" version of the 280 and 320 MM rockets in a defensive mode.

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