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Originally Posted by jester
Actualy the antitank rifle was used in Korea as well by the Chicoms as a long range sniper weapon.
I also remember reading about the soviet antitank rifles at Kursk. And some tanks would have several holes in their vehicles so stopping was not done.
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A million years ago when I was ROTC, one of the little tidbits SGM Mills told us once was about a tactic the Mujaheddin used in Afghanistan against Soviet APCs and IFVs -- particularly the BTRs. They found they could actually stop them long enough for a good antiarmor shot by killing the driver. The driver-killers used old Mosin-Nagants to shoot the driver
through the side or top of the vehicle's skin where the driver was. An RPG or sometimes an ATGM shot would quickly follow.
(SGM Mills had a lot of those little tidbits. Since his previous assignment before being an ROTC instructor was high up at 5th SF Group, he was still hooked into the "SF Network." I remember him distinctly to this day because I learned so much from him.)