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7/14/2025, 3:44:34 PM
>>63982751
> don't need to carry an extra weapon with you
You do need to carry blank rounds with you and remember to load blanks
> decent enough pen
Against armor cars, light tanks etc then yes. The moment you start fighting medium tanks+heavy tanks then you need side shots or fire the big boi rifle grenades which cuts down the effective range vs the earlier smaller caliber 3cm-4cm grenades.
> longer range than early bazooka / panzerfaust
Depends on what round you fire, see above. The actual effective combat range can be drastically lower for a rifle grenade compared to the panzerfaust in combat. And if the user is really fucking stressed out then the effective range for both a rifle grenade and bazooka will be the same, which is less then 10 meters for a 100% hit chance and at that point you are better of with the weapon highest pen.
If you look at my image (source is filename) then the german Gewehr-Panzergranate Failed to pen a T-34 from the front and rear and only penned from the side, fired from a range of 10 meters. The KV-1 was completely immune, for that you need the Gross_Gewehr Panzergranate and in the end the germans developed two additional rifle grenades, the Gross Panzergranate 46 & 61 but at that point you might as well use a panzerfaust which has a higher pennetration
>Gross Panzergranate 46,61 does 90 mm and 130 mm respectively while the panzerfaust 30 gross 200mm against armor.
Regarding lethality of a rifle grenade vs a panzerfaust , in Steven Zalogas book "Duel, Panzerfaust vs Sherman" page 48
>US Army Ordnance officers felt that shapedcharge warheads needed at least 2in (51mm) of penetrating power beyond the energy needed to penetrate the armor plate in order to cause significant damage within the tank. To be effective against a tank such as the M4 with its 90mm (equivalent) frontal armor required a warhead with 140mm penetrating power (90+50mm) to have lethal internal effects – well within the capability of even the small Panzerfaust.
> don't need to carry an extra weapon with you
You do need to carry blank rounds with you and remember to load blanks
> decent enough pen
Against armor cars, light tanks etc then yes. The moment you start fighting medium tanks+heavy tanks then you need side shots or fire the big boi rifle grenades which cuts down the effective range vs the earlier smaller caliber 3cm-4cm grenades.
> longer range than early bazooka / panzerfaust
Depends on what round you fire, see above. The actual effective combat range can be drastically lower for a rifle grenade compared to the panzerfaust in combat. And if the user is really fucking stressed out then the effective range for both a rifle grenade and bazooka will be the same, which is less then 10 meters for a 100% hit chance and at that point you are better of with the weapon highest pen.
If you look at my image (source is filename) then the german Gewehr-Panzergranate Failed to pen a T-34 from the front and rear and only penned from the side, fired from a range of 10 meters. The KV-1 was completely immune, for that you need the Gross_Gewehr Panzergranate and in the end the germans developed two additional rifle grenades, the Gross Panzergranate 46 & 61 but at that point you might as well use a panzerfaust which has a higher pennetration
>Gross Panzergranate 46,61 does 90 mm and 130 mm respectively while the panzerfaust 30 gross 200mm against armor.
Regarding lethality of a rifle grenade vs a panzerfaust , in Steven Zalogas book "Duel, Panzerfaust vs Sherman" page 48
>US Army Ordnance officers felt that shapedcharge warheads needed at least 2in (51mm) of penetrating power beyond the energy needed to penetrate the armor plate in order to cause significant damage within the tank. To be effective against a tank such as the M4 with its 90mm (equivalent) frontal armor required a warhead with 140mm penetrating power (90+50mm) to have lethal internal effects – well within the capability of even the small Panzerfaust.
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