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Old June 29th, 2019, 11:18 AM
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Default Re: Pzhndgranate 41

You couldn't have looked very hard

You can dive into this
https://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=193806

There is some debate about it but it's been in our OOB's since near the beginning and represents a moderate hand delivered AT munition

https://www.wehrmacht-awards.com/for...d.php?t=350538

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The first special AT hand grenade was the Panzerhandgranate 41. It weighed 2kg and was effective against armor of up to 30mm thickness. 504,600 were produced in early 1943. Further developments of AT handgrenades utilising shaped charges had trouble stabilizing the flight which was necessary for the shaped charge to work (this lead to the development of the Panzerwurfmine).
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