{"id":25320,"date":"2024-08-26T08:01:07","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T13:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/26\/wz-35-polands-remarkably-misunderstood-antitank-rifle\/"},"modified":"2024-08-26T08:01:07","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T13:01:07","slug":"wz-35-polands-remarkably-misunderstood-antitank-rifle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/26\/wz-35-polands-remarkably-misunderstood-antitank-rifle\/","title":{"rendered":"wz.35: Poland&#8217;s Remarkably Misunderstood Antitank Rifle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wxhwHgemeBs?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Read the full history as written by Leszek Erenfeicht: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forgottenweapons.com\/wz-35\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.forgottenweapons.com\/wz-35\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>All the best firearms history channels streaming to all major devices:<br \/>weaponsandwar.tv<\/p>\n<p>In the 1930s, Poland decided to develop an anti-tank rifle, and the young designer J\u00f3zef Maroszek came up with the winning system be scaling up a bolt action service rifle he had already drawn up. The project was kept very secret, out of concern that Germany or Russia would up-armor their tanks if the Polish rifle&#8217;s existence and capabilities became known. This secrecy has led to a lot of misconceptions about the rifle today&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, the ammunition for the wz.35 used a plain lead core. Polish engineers found that at its incredible 4200 fps (1280 m\/s) muzzle velocity, the lead core had excellent armor penetrating capacity. When the German Army later captured and reused the rifles, they didn&#8217;t trust this, and reloading captured Polish ammunition with German tungsten-cored projectiles made for the PzB-39. <\/p>\n<p>Rather than explain the full story of the wz.35 in detail here, I will refer you to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forgottenweapons.com\/wz-35\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.forgottenweapons.com\/wz-35\/<\/a> , where I have posted a full monograph on the rifle written by Leszek Erenfeicht. <\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to the Royal Armouries for allowing me to film and disassemble this rifle! The NFC collection there &#8211; perhaps the best military small arms collection in Western Europe &#8211; is available by appointment to researchers:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/royalarmouries.org\/research\/national-firearms-centre\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/royalarmouries.org\/research\/national-firearms-centre\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can browse the various Armouries collections online here:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/royalarmouries.org\/collection\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/royalarmouries.org\/collection\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/utreon.com\/c\/forgottenweapons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/utreon.com\/c\/forgottenweapons\/<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read the full history as written by Leszek Erenfeicht: http:\/\/www.forgottenweapons.com\/wz-35\/ All the best firearms history channels streaming to all major devices:weaponsandwar.tv In the 1930s, Poland decided to develop an anti-tank rifle, and the young designer J\u00f3zef Maroszek came up with the winning system be scaling up a bolt action service rifle he had already drawn&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/26\/wz-35-polands-remarkably-misunderstood-antitank-rifle\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">wz.35: Poland&#8217;s Remarkably Misunderstood Antitank Rifle<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":25321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}