The Wz. 35 anti-tank rifle, known in polish as Karabin przeciwpancerny wzór 35 or kb ppanc wz. 35 (Anti-tank rifle, pattern of 1935). Its use in the Polish army before the war was limited by the secrecy around the weapon. A cover name for it was Urugwaj or Ur.
Gameplay[]
The Wz. 35 AT rifle is used by Poland, Germany, Italy and Hungary on maps set between 1939 and 1941 mostly, but even in 1943.
The rifle has a slightly smaller capacity than the Boys Anti-Tank rifles and a slow rate of fire but not much sway when aiming in an unrested position i.e. not using the bipod.
It can penetrate 31mm of armor, 6mm more than the Boys Anti-Tank rifle Mk.1 and just 1mm more than the Mk.2 variant.
It can be used while on a Horse.
History[]
The Karabin przeciwpancerny wz.35 was designed in 1935. It was extensively used during the Invasion of Poland of 1939 by most Polish units.
Approximately, an amount 8000 of wz35 were made during the war until the Fall of Poland.
Description[]
This anti-tank rifle was based on the Karabiner 98k, with the action modified to sustain the higher pressure of the new cartridge and the barrel lengthened significantly.
It was capable of penetrating a 15 mm steel plate at a distance of 300 metres with similar results against angled steel plate, slopped at 30° at 300 m distance, or 33 mm of armor at 100 m.
Panzerbüchse 35(p)[]
After Poland was overrun by Germany and the Soviet Union, large quantities of this weapon were captured. The Polish soldiers who retreated to Hungary got a warmer welcome but were interned and their equipment was seized. The Germans pressed it into service as Panzerbüchse 35 (polnisch) (PzB 35(p)), and sped up work on their own simplified, one-shot anti-tank rifle Panzerbüchse 39 (PzB 39). According to some sources, however, the Germans replaced the DS bullets in the captured ammunition with their own 7.92 mm hardened-steel-core bullets from the PzB 39. The performance of the captured rifle and the PzB 39 was similar.
In 1940, Germany sold some 800 Polish antitank rifles to the Italian armed forces, which used them in combat in North Africa and on the Eastern front. It was designated fucile controcarro 35(P), after Italy surrendered those that were taken by the Germans were called PzB 770 (i). How much service the rifle had in Hungary is not known for sure. It is known that some were confiscated from the Polish troops who retreated into Hungary since 30 examples were sold to Finland during the Winter War. Like most weapons sent to Finland at the time it arrived to late to be used until the continuation war. The small number of guns and that they required its unique ammunition may be some of the reasons they were not used much, they still had most of the guns at the end of the war after which the majority were scrapped.
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