14.5mm anti-tank rifles PTRD-41 and PTRS-41. The PTRS-41 was produced and used by the Soviet Union during World War II. In the years between the World Wars, the Soviet Union began experimenting with different types of armour-piercing anti-tank cartridges.

2023年2月25日 · Known on the battlefield as the “Simonov”, the PTRS-41 was designed by the Soviet Union in response to the loss of anti-tank artillery at the hands of the Germans. The USSR charged several weapons designers with producing a bandaid solution to the issue by developing a new anti-tank gun.

2020年1月8日 · The two primary Soviet antitank rifles of the World War II era were the PTRD 41 (top) and the PTRS 41 (bottom). The PTRD-41 was a single-shot weapon, while the PTRS-41 was capable of semiautomatic fire.

2023年4月10日 · The PTRS-41 remains, even today, a weapon with impressive capabilities that prefigures among the modern anti-materiel rifle. Obviously, in anti-tank warfare, these piercing capabilities clearly cannot be matched by the HEAT charge …

2021年8月15日 · Simonov produced the PTRS-41 (or "PTRS 1941") anti-tank rifle for the Red Army during World War 2. While allied with Germany during their conquering of Poland in September of 1939, the two nations were at odds with one another after the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June of 1941.

Designed in 1938 by Sergei Gavrilovich Simonov, the PTRS-41 is a semi-automatic anti-tank rifle that was used along the Eastern Front in World War II and then used again in the Korean War and Chinese Civil War by various factions.

the Russian built PTRS- 41 is the predecessor of the SKS rifle. In 1938, Simonov designed the PTRS-41, a magazine fed, semi automatic anti-tank rifle. The PTRS-41 fired a 14.5 mm (55 Caliber) armor-piercing bullet which had a muzzle velocity of 1012 m/s (3350 ft. per sec.)