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PTRD-41

Soviet anti-tank rifle

Field	Value
name	PTRD-41
image	ПТРД.jpg
image_size	300
caption	PTRD-41 in service with the Ukrainian National Guard in 2014
origin	Soviet Union
type	Anti-tank rifle
<!-- Type selection -->	is_ranged	yes
<!-- Service history -->	service	1941–1960s (Soviet Union)
used_by	See Users
wars	World War II
Korean War
Chinese Civil War
Vietnam War
Syrian Civil War
Russo-Ukrainian War
designer	Vasily Degtyaryov
design_date	1941
manufacturer	Degtyaryov plant
production_date	1941–1945
number	~450,000
variants
weight	17.3 kg (38.1 lbs)
length	2,020 mm (79.5 in)
part_length	1,350 mm
crew	2
<!-- Ranged weapon specifications -->	cartridge	14.5×114mm (B-32, BS-41)
action	Bolt-action
rate	Manual
velocity	1,012 m/s
range	300 m (on personnel targets, dispersion of bullets at 300 m is 0.36 m)
max_range	1000 m (mainly with scope)
feed	Single-shot
sights	Front post, rear notch

Korean War Chinese Civil War Vietnam War Syrian Civil War Russo-Ukrainian War The **PTRD-41 **() is an anti-tank rifle that was produced and used from 1941 by the Soviet Red Army during World War II. It is a single-shot weapon which fires the 14.5×114 mm round, which was able to penetrate German tanks such as the Panzer III and early models of the Panzer IV. Although unable to penetrate the frontal armor of late-war German tanks, it could penetrate their thinner side and top armor at close ranges as well as thinly armored self-propelled guns and half-tracks.

History

Anti-tank riflemen with PTRD on the Kursk salient.

In 1939, during the Soviet invasion of Poland, the USSR captured several hundred Polish kb ppanc wz. 35 anti-tank rifles, which had proved effective against German tanks during the September Campaign. A Russian engineer Vasily Degtyaryov copied its lock and several features of the German Panzerbüchse 38 when hasty construction of an anti-tank rifle was ordered in July 1941.

The PTRD and the similar but semi-automatic PTRS-41 were the only individual anti-tank weapons available to the Red Army in numbers upon the outbreak of the war with Germany. The 14.5 mm armor-piercing bullet had a muzzle velocity of 1012 m/s. The 64 g bullet had a 39 g steel core and could penetrate around 30 mm of armor at 500 m, and 40 mm of armor at 100 m.{{citation |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091027135457/http://geocities.com/Augusta/8172/panzerfaust6.htm |url=http://geocities.com/Augusta/8172/panzerfaust6.htm |archive-date=2009-10-27 |work=Panzerfaust: WW II German Infantry Anti-Tank Weapons

Guns captured by the Germans were given the designation 14.5 mm PzB 783(r). After World War II the PTRD was also used extensively by North Korean and Chinese armed forces in the Korean War. During this war, William Brophy, a US Army Ordnance officer, mounted a .50 BMG (12.7 mm) barrel to a captured PTRD to examine the effectiveness of long-range shooting. Furthermore, the US also captured a number of PTRDs in the Vietnam War. The weapon proved effective out to 1800 m.

Users

Current

PTRD rifle at Great Patriotic War museum in Smolensk

Soviet soldiers with PTRD-41 defending Moscow, 1942.

: Limited use in the Syrian civil war
- Donetsk People's Republic: Used by militiamen in 2014.
: Limited use in the war in Donbas

Former

Albania: Used as late as 1960
Bulgaria: Equipped with 300 items (both PTRD & PTRS) by Soviet Union between 1944 and 1945, seen in combat operations.
China: Used by Communist rebels in the Chinese Civil War, later by the People's Volunteer Army during the Korean War.
Czechoslovakia: Used by 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps in the USSR.
: Used as late as 1960
Nazi Germany: Captured and used by Wehrmacht under the title Panzerbüchse 783(r).
North Korea: Equipped by the USSR, saw extensive combat in Korean War against M24 light tanks.
Polish People's Republic: Used by 1st Tadeusz Kościuszko Infantry Division in 1943 then by other Polish divisions.
Romania: Used as late as 1960
North Vietnam: In stockpile, used by Viet Cong in Vietnam War.
USSR: Largely used in Eastern Front by the Red Army.

References

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