{"id":6288,"date":"2015-04-07T15:00:09","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T15:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/candrdigital.com\/index.php\/2015\/04\/07\/panzerbuchse-39-german-anti-tank-rifle\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T17:17:16","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T22:17:16","slug":"panzerbuchse-39-german-anti-tank-rifle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2015\/04\/07\/panzerbuchse-39-german-anti-tank-rifle\/","title":{"rendered":"Panzerb\u00fcchse 39 German Anti-Tank Rifle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jupKqqqgBJM?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Sold for $37,375.<\/p>\n<p>Most countries still had anti-tank rifles in their military inventory at the beginning of WWII &#8211; the Solothurn S18-100, the Lahti L39, the Boys AT Rifle, the PTRD and PTRS, and so on. For Germany, this role was fulfilled by the Panzerb\u00fcchse 39, a single-shot falling block rifle firing a high velocity 8mm AP cartridge. It was nominally effective in the opening campaigns of the war, but was quickly rendered obsolete as Allied armor improved. German planners has a huge number (25,000) of these on hand for the invasion of Russia, where they expected Russian armor to be vulnerable to them &#8211; which was not the case. Most were subsequently converted into Granatb\u00fcchse 39 AT grenade launchers, which were then used until the end of the war.<\/p>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons Merch! <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sold for $37,375. Most countries still had anti-tank rifles in their military inventory at the beginning of WWII &#8211; the Solothurn S18-100, the Lahti L39, the Boys AT Rifle, the PTRD and PTRS, and so on. For Germany, this role was fulfilled by the Panzerb\u00fcchse 39, a single-shot falling block rifle firing a high velocity&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2015\/04\/07\/panzerbuchse-39-german-anti-tank-rifle\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Panzerb\u00fcchse 39 German Anti-Tank Rifle<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":6289,"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-6288","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\/6288","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=6288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15606,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6288\/revisions\/15606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}