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This document, which I hope will prove useful to WW2 wargamers, gives penetration performance
details of WW2 anti-tank weapons.
All the sources I have used are in the public domain. Those books no longer in print should mostly be
easy to buy from a good book search service, or to borrow from a good library. The documents cited
from the Public Records Office, Kew, are available for inspection there to anyone with a Readers ticket.
Where page numbers are cited, tables usually appear in the original source. In other cases, it has been
necessary to extract and tabulate data spread through the body of the text. Sometimes it has been
necessary to reduce information presented as graphs or polar diagrams to tabular form, and some loss of
accuracy is inevitable in the process. Given the inherent imprecision of all these figures, however, this
does not much matter.
Sources referring to the post-war period have been cited where they cover weapons developed during
the war. Some entries refer to weapons never introduced into service, such as the British 32-pounder
and Burney guns with "Wallbuster" (HESH) shell, American experimental 90mm guns, and a variety of
German developments; these are included for interest.
To be useful, armour penetration figures should specify not only the gun, range and penetration
achieved, but also the ammunition nature and model fired, the angle of impact, the type of armour
attacked and the penetration criterion used. I believe that the usual British penetration proof criterion
early in the war was to have the complete projectile length pass through the target plate on 80% of proof
shots fired. Later, some tables give the "critical thickness" of armour, that is, the one for which a shot
win and a plate win are equally likely. The Russians used two penetration criteria, the "Army" criterion
requiring complete perforation of the plate, and the more demanding "Naval" criterion requiring the
complete projectile to pass through. Few, if any, sources provide all this information. An additional
annoyance is that some sources are obviously mistaken or misprinted in places. This has been noted
under the heading "Comments and Corrections" where I have been able to spot the error.
The customary angle of impact when quoting penetration performance is 30 from the vertical, but some
American weapons are quoted for 20. German practice was (and current NATO practice is) to measure
angles from the horizontal, so where 60 is stated, it is usually safe to assume that 30 from the vertical is
intended. In action, unless firing from exactly right-angles to the target vehicle, there will be an
additional angular component depending on the target tanks facing. A table for rough conversions
from sloped armour to an equivalent thickness of vertical plate is given as one of the extracts from WO
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185/118; it will be seen that well-sloped armour seems to be more effective than would be indicated by a
simple cosine calculation.
It is also traditional to quote penetration against homogenous armour. Performance against facehardened plate, especially for smaller weapons firing uncapped rounds, can differ greatly. Armour
hardness may vary considerably. For example, according to Kenneth Macksey's "The Guinness Book
of Tank Facts and Feats" (Guinness Superlatives, Enfield, 1972), British homogenous armour at the
outbreak of WW2 came in "soft" (machineable) and "hard" grades with Brinell hardnesses of 380 and
450 respectively, while Vickers Cemented armour had a Brinell hardness of 600 on the front and 400 on
the back. 50 Brinell points corresponds to 10 tons per square inch; 1 Brinell point corresponds by my
calculations to 0.315 Kg/sq. mm, or to put it another way 1 Kg/sq. mm is equivalent to 3.17 Brinell points.
It seems that there is a certain velocity band which face-hardened plate protects against best, and for
projectiles arriving outside this velocity band, face-hardened plate is less effective than the same
thickness of homogenous armour.
Where ammunition nature is not specified, it may be possible to make an educated guess based on the
muzzle velocity, if the source quotes one, or simply by applying common sense to the magnitude of the
penetration figure given the widely-quoted 140mm penetration at 500m credited to the Soviet 57mm
ZIS-2 can hardly apply to a standard AP round, for example. One source shows a significant difference
in performance between APHE and APC or APCBC rounds for the same gun, and it can sometimes be
difficult to decide which is meant. The nationality of the weapon can serve as a guide; the Germans
never used solid steel AP, preferring APHE; the Russians seem to have had a strong preference for
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APHE; the Americans seem to have been happy with both; and the British never used APHE after the 3pounder. The question is further complicated by the fact that rounds are sometimes misleadingly
designated; for example, some American rounds designated APC are in fact APCBC. In the name of
accuracy, some of these, and Panzergranate 39 for guns of 5cm calibre and above, should probably be
designated APCBCHE, but they rarely are. For complete accuracy, the precise model number needs to
be known. Sometimes even this is not enough, as the table from Hunnicutt's "Sherman" shows; there is
an appreciable difference between the "early" and "late" 90mm M82 APC, due to "hotter" loading.
Some sources do not help by propagating errors; many sources credit the 17-pdr firing APDS with
231mm penetration at 1000 yards on armour sloped at 30, but it seems tolerably obvious that this figure
really refers to armour at 0. It is depressingly rare for original sources to be accurately credited.
Even when all these sources of variation are accounted for, authoritative sources can seem to disagree.
Consider the German 75mm PaK40, a common and well-documented weapon, firing PzGr 39 against
homogenous armour at 30 at 500 metres (or 600 yards, which is near enough). Even discarding the
highest and lowest observations as outliers, we find a variation between 90mm and 106mm, a difference
of 17% of the lower figure. This highlights the point that armour penetration is far from being a
deterministic phenomenon, and giving penetrative performance in millimetres (and even in some cases
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half-millimetres) suggests a degree of precision that does not really exist, even for proof shots fired
under tightly-controlled conditions. Performance in the field, of course, is subject to very much greater
variation. As Shelford Bidwell says in "Gunners at War", "All simplified tables showing the
performance of anti-tank guns are misleading". The Bovington booklet "Fire and Movement" says
"Chance also causes discrepancies for instance, a normally certain penetration may be prevented by
the deflection away of a projectile on a lifting-lug projecting from a turret; conversely, a normally certain
immunity may be removed if that same type of projection deflects a projectile towards the armour at a
different angle".
Using penetration tables takes no account either of behind-armour effect following penetration, nor of
non-penetrating damage. In principle, penetrating shell with a bursting charge should have better
behind-armour effect than solid shot, but whether this matters in calibres above about 50mm seems
highly questionable. The most supremely futile attempt to improve behind-armour effectiveness must
surely be the German inclusion of a small tear-gas pellet in the AP bullet for the PzB 39 anti-tank rifle. It
should still be borne in mind that most of these figures generally indicate the thickness of armour the
projectile will just penetrate; the greater the degree to which the armour is overmatched, presumably, the
greater will be the damage potential of the penetrating projectile. Hollow-charge weapons are a special
case, in that the projectile itself does not penetrate the armour, but rather the jet formed by its charge
does. Hollow charge weapons of the WW2 epoch were reputed to have less-than-ideal behind-armour
effects. As the Bovington "Fire and Movement" booklet points out, "If the projectile is not an
appreciable overmatch for the target, however, the penetration can be small enough to do little damage".
One of the tables in WO 185/178 makes an interesting attempt to quantify behind-armour effects by
estimating the weight of metal shot into the tank by a penetrating hit.
Penetration tables also take no account of non-penetrating damage. The running gear of all vehicles can
be vulnerable to AP or HE fire from nearly all calibres. Extremely large calibre rounds can cause
catastrophic damage without needing to penetrate the target; a Soviet 122mm shell, for example, might
completely remove the turret of its target. Germany and Russia began using welded construction in the
1930s, but Britain and America continued to use rivets until the beginning of WW2. A shot hitting an
exposed rivet-head could cause the rivet shank to break off and be projected into the tank, causing
damage. The British continued to use rivets in the Cromwell until the end of the war, but these were
tapered to prevent this happening.
Thanks to Tony Williams and Ernest Ashworth of the UK and Eero Juhola of Finland for the information
they contributed to this collection.
Anyone with comments, corrections or additions is invited to e-mail them to john.salt@btclick.com.
Please be sure to include title, author, publisher and year of publication for any source you refer to.
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Barker, 1979
5
Bidwell, 1976
5
Blackburn, 1998
6
Bovington Museum, 1975
7
Braun, 1977
8
Brereton & Norman, 1972
9
Chamberlain, Doyle & Jentz, 1978
10
Chamberlain & Ellis, 1969
11
Chamberlain & Gander, 1974
12
Collier's Encyclopedia, 1995
13
DEFE 15/1107, The performance of Russian SU-100 APHE/T shot UBR-412B against armour plate13
DEFE 15/1934, The scabbing of armour plate by static explosive charges
13
DSIR 27/60, Use of thin spaced plates of armour plate & mild steel to stop 0.303" AP shot
14
Encyclopdia Britannica, 1985
14
Ellis et al, 1962
15
Ellis, 1993
16
Farrar-Hockley, 1976
17
Featherstone, 1973
17
Fleischer, 1994
19
Forty, 1979
20
Forty, 1999
20
Foss, 1974
21
Funcken & Funcken, 1976
22
Gander, 1998
22
Gander & Chamberlain, 1977
22
Gander & Chamberlain, 1978
23
Godfrey, 1984
25
Grove, 1976
25
Handbook on the Italian Army
26
Hoffschmidt & Tantum, 1968
27
Hogg, 1975
29
Hogg, 1976
30
Hogg, 1977
31
Hogg, 1978
32
Hogg, 1997
34
Hogg & Weeks, 1977
35
Huhtala, 1940
35
Hunnicut, 1978
36
Hunnicut, 2001
37
Isby, 1974
37
Isby, 1979
37
Jentz, 1996
38
Kent, 1990
39
Kosnett, 1977
39
Labbett & Brown, 1988
39
Lucas, 1988
40
Lucas, 1994
40
Macksey, 1988
41
McRae & Coox, 1954
42
Messenger, 1982
43
Moore, 1991
44
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Nash, 1974
Ogorkiewicz, 1960
O'Neill, 1981
Orgill, 1971
Perrett, 1990
Playfair, 1956
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45
45
45
46
46
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Quarrie, 1989
Shephard, Hartley, Haysman, Thorpe & Bathe, 1988
Spielberger, 196?
TM 30-410
TM-E 30-451
Unknown
Vanags-Baginskis & Watanabe, 1993
von Senger und Etterlin, 1971
Weeks, 197?
Wiener, 1978
Williams, 1999
Woodman, 1991
WO 171/336, 30 Corps "G" War Diary
WO 185/15, Anti-tank grenades
WO 185/118, DDG/FV(D) Armour plate experiments
WO 185/122, Churchill tank with 17 pdr gun
WO 185/133, Tungsten Carbide Production
WO 185/145, New infantry anti-tank weapon
WO 185/171, Armour plate experiments
WO 185/178, Tank armament versus armour
WO 185/182, Recoilless weapons
WO 185/194, Tank and anti-tank armament
WO 190/706, German Army infantry weapons
WO 193/480, Anti-tank weapons and ammunition
WO 194/598, Interim damage assessment report on 20mm, 25mm and 30mm calibre cannon attacks
against APC targets
WO 195/15062, Scab resistance of armour plate
WO 208/2079, Tactical and Technical Trends
WO 208/3003, German Infantry Weapons
WO 214/52, War establishments
WO 219/2785, SHAEF equipment and supply returns
WO 219/2801, SHAEF documents on tanks
WO 219/2806, Appendix G to SHAEF/16652/GCT/Arty
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48
48
48
49
50
51
52
53
53
54
55
56
56
56
58
58
59
59
60
63
63
63
64
64
64
65
65
65
65
66
66
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Barker, 1979
"Japanese Army Handbook 19391945", A. J. Barker, Ian Allan, 1979, page 95. Armour at normal,
Penetration
25
51
68
68
69
70
70
71
71
72
73
73
74
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Bidwell, 1976
"Artillery Tactics 19391945", Shelford Bidwell, Almark, 1976, page 72. Armour at 30 slope, type
Ammo
250
500
36
53
60
58
540
1000
27
40
38
2000
140
62
65
112
75
146
171
90
123
APDS
German 75mm
Russian 76mm
17 pdr
APDS
54
53
103
63
130
83
113
231
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Blackburn, 1998
"The Guns of Normandy", George Blackburn, Constable, 1998, page 496. Penetration in millimetres, 30
Penetration
63
102
164
110
113
231
68
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3-pr Mk II
6-pr Mk 3 or 5
75mm Mk V
77mm Mk 2
17-pr Mk 2
37mm M6
75mm M2 and M3
76mm M1A1 or
M1A2
90mm M3
47mm mod 37
20mm L65
37mm L45
Ammo
AP
APCBC
SV
APHE
APCBC
APDS
APC
APCBC
APCBC
APDS
APCBC
APDS
APC
APCBC
APC
APCBC
HVAP
APCBC
HVAP
APC
AP
APCR
APC
APCR
100
500
53
88
87
131
68
103
120
182
125
187
46
55
31
49
68
70
94
158
126
221
43
22
35
30
43
1000
40
49
72
25
80
117
61
94
110
165
118
170
42
62
59
89
134
120
200
29
22
1500
2000
44
60
40
48
73
103
54
86
100
148
110
153
40
48
55
81
117
114
177
23
67
90
47
78
90
130
98
135
37
40
50
76
99
105
154
2500
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50mm L42
50mm L60
75mm L24
75mm L43
75mm L48
75mm L70
88mm L56
88mm L71
128mm L55
37mm mod 94
47mm Type 1
75mm 94 or 1
Sov 76 L41
Sov 85 L53
Sov 100 L46
Sov 122 L43
APC
APCR
APC
APCR
APCBC
APCBC
APCBC
APCBC
APCBC
APCR
APCBC
APC
APCBC
APHE
AP
AP
APCBC
APCBC
APCBC
APCBC
(estd)
(estd)
(estd)
(estd)
56
66
61
86
46
84
90
141
110
126
182
175
215
32
59
62
56
103
130
140
47
42
50
55
41
72
79
121
101
103
167
150
202
25
45
53
50
94
120
130
39
26
32
35
62
70
104
93
85
153
132
190
53
62
89
84
70
139
120
178
34
46
45
86
110
120
40
77
100
110
127
64
95
100
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Braun, 1977
"Handbuch der Flugzeug Bordwaffenmunition", 1977, collected by Matthias Braun. Ranges in metres,
Cartridge
SmK v
Target
140-150
13mm
140-150
Attack
D
D
D
I
D
Range
100
300
600
100
100
90
12
9
6
4
17
60
8
6
3.5
3
10
30
4
3
1.5
3
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15mm
140-150
15mm
H-Pzgr Patr
140-160
2cm
150
2cm
150
3cm
140-150
3cm
100
150
3.7cm
150
D
D
I
I
I
D
D
D
I
I
D
D
D
D
D
D
I
I
I
D
D
D
I
I
I
D
D
D
D
D
D
D
D
300
600
100
300
600
300
400
600
100
300
100
300
600
100
300
600
100
300
600
100
300
600
100
300
600
300
600
100
300
100
300
100
600
11
5.5
16
9
5.5
25
19
14
15
11.5
48
42
31.5
21.5
17
12
12.5
11
8
24
23
15
13
12
8.5
32
27
100
95
78
74
140
95
7
4
9.5
6.5
4
18
15
10.5
11.5
10
26.5
20
15.5
12
9.5
7
8.5
8
5.5
12
11.5
7
10
9
7
26
21.5
58
52
47
42
68
47
3
2
4
3
2
11.5
9.5
6.5
12
9.5
7
7
5.5
4
5
4.5
3
8
7
4
6.5
5
4
19
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with "AP rounds", ranges in metres, armour type and slope unspecified.
76.2mm L41.2
500
69
1000
61
1500
54
2000
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edition, Peter Chamberlain, Hilary L. Doyle & Thomas L. Jentz, A&AP 1978, page 245.
"Penetration of Homogenous Armour Plate at 30 from Vertical", ranges in metres.
Weapon
7.92mm MGs
2cm KwK or FlaK
sPzB41
3.7cm KwK or Pak35/36
3.7cm KwK34(t)
3.7cm KwK38(t)
3.7cm FlaK 43
4.7cm PaK(t)
5cm KwK38
5cm KwK39
5cm PaK38
Ammunition
Patr SmK
PzGr
PzGr40
PzGr41
PzGr
PzGr40
PzGr
PzGr
PzGr40
PzGr18
PzGr36(t)
PzGr40
PzGr39
PzGr40
PzGr39
PzGr40
PzGr39
PzGr40
100
8
20
49
60
34
64
37
41
64
35
54
100
54
96
67
130
69
130
500
3
14
20
40
29
34
31
35
34
28
48
59
46
58
57
72
59
72
1000
1500
2000
9
19
22
19
26
29
22
24
21
41
17
35
36
28
22
44
38
48
38
34
26
38
29
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7.5cm
KwK37
or StuK37
7.5cm
KwK40
or
StuK40 L43
7.5cm PaK39, KwK40 or
StuK40 L48 or PaK40
7.5cm Kwk or StuK42
K PzGr39
Gr rot Pz
41
98
126
106
143
138
194
98
135
97
127
120
171
203
237
164
63
201
189
187
Pzgr40
PzGr39
PzGr40
PzGr39/42
PzGr40/42
PzGr39
PzGr40
PzGr
PzGr39
PzGr39
PzGr40
PzGr39-1
PzGr40/43
PzGr rot
PzGr
PzGr
PzGr
PzGr43
7.62cm PaK36(r)
8.8cm FlaK18 or 37
8.8cm KwK36
8.8cm KwK or PaK43
10cm K18
10.5cm leFH18 or StuH42
12.8cm K40
12.8cm PaK44
39
91
108
96
120
124
174
90
116
93
117
110
156
185
217
149
59
176
166
178
35
82
87
85
97
111
149
82
94
87
106
100
138
165
193
133
54
150
143
167
33
72
69
74
77
99
127
73
75
80
97
91
123
148
171
119
50
132
127
157
30
63
64
89
106
65
58
72
88
84
110
132
153
109
46
120
117
148
7.5cm
7.5cm
7.5cm
10.5cm
10.5cm
10.5cm
Gr38 H1/A Gr38 H1/B Gr38 H1/C Gr39 H1/A Gr39 H1/B Gr39 H1/C Gr39 H1/A
70
75
100
80
90
100
15cm
160
10
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Ammo
AP
APCBC
Range
500
500
Penetration
57
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66 pdr
pdr Mk
Mk 35
75mm Mk V, VA
17pdr Mk II, IV, VI, VII
500
500
500
500
500
500
500
500
500
500
1000
1000
1000
1000
APDS
77mm Mk II
95mm How Mk 1
37mm M6
75mm M2
75mm M3
76mm M1, M1A1,
M1A1C, M1A2
90mm M3
HEAT
APC
HVAP
APC
HVAP
81
83
68
120
186
109
110
48
60
70
88
133
120
195
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Ammunition
AP
AP40
AP
AP
AP40
AP
AP40
AP
AP40
HEAT
HEAT
HEAT
HEAT
HEAT
AP
APC
Range
700 yds
400 yds
400 yds
400 yds
500 yds
500 yds
500 yds
500 yds
500 yds
500 yds
900 yds
500 yds
500 yds
500 yds
Angle
30
30
30
30
30
30
30
30
30
30
30
30
30
30
30
30
150 m
200 m
100 m
200 yds
400 yds
550 yds
1000 yds
400 yds
500 yds
270 yds
300 m
100m
300 m
500 yds
1000 yds
1000 yds
300 m
1000 yds
1000 yds
1000 yds
1000 yds
60
30
0
30
30
60
30
30
20
30
0
20
20
20
20
Penetration
51
56
38
49
72
61
86
106
115
171
60
98
118
226
140
200
210
210
30
90
38
43
24
38
51
30
20
30
15-18
53
69
130
21
25
53
69
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2.36 in RL M1, M9
Rifle Gren M9
37mm M30
45mm M32
45mm M42
57mm M41, 43
100mm M1944
PTRD, PTRS
VPGS 1940
HEAT
HEAT
700 yds
400 yds
1000 yds
300 m
500m
450m
500m
65 yds
30
30
119
101
38
38
95
140
192
25
30
12
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The entry for "Bazooka", contributed by Patrick W Powers, says the 2.36" weapon had a range of 700
yards, which seems lavish, and "could penetrate about 4 in. of armour plate", which is 102mm. Neither
type nor slope of armour are specified.
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Suez in 1956. The UBR-412B differs from the UBR-412 in having a ballistic cap. It has no piercing cap,
but uses differential hardening to achieve the same effect. 10mm burster plates broke up 8 of 10 test
shots, possibly due to detonation of the HE element. On a 60mm plate at 55, 5 of 7 shots penetrated,
including 3 that broke up.
2.9
10
The diameter of a charge of the minimum weight needed to scab a plate of a given thickness is given as
roughly:
Dia (mm) = 1.19 Thickness (mm)
The limiting diameter of a charge (of any weight) that will just scab a given thickness of armour is given
as:
Dia (mm) = 1.07 Thickness (mm)
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DSIR 27/60, Use of thin spaced plates of armour plate & mild steel to stop 0.303"
AP shot
This report gives the results of a number of test shots of 0.303" AP rounds through multiple plates of
armour or mild steel with different air gaps between them. Results are expressed in terms of shots
stopped out of shots fired. All shots were fired at a range of 30 feet. It is noted that "mild steel plates
appear to be less reliable than armour steel plates in upsetting the stability of the shot." The results of
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the tests are shown below; armour thicknesses are shown in millimetres, mild steel thicknesses in
fractions of inches with the notation MS. If a shot was stopped by a plate other than the last, the
number of shots stopped is show in [square brackets] by the thickness of the plate that stopped it.
plate 1
3mm
2mm
3mm
3mm
3mm
3mm
3mm
4mm
4mm
4mm
4mm
1/8" MS
1/8" MS
1/8" MS
1/4" MS
1/4" MS
1/8" MS
3/16" MS
+ 1/8" MS
1/8" MS
gap
5"
5"
5"
5"
5"
3"
9"
10"
10"
9"
9"
9"
9"
5"
4 1/4"
5 1/2"
7"
9"
plate 2
3 mm
3 mm
3mm
3mm
3mm
3mm
3mm
4mm
4mm
4mm
4mm
6mm [2]
6mm [1]
1/16" MS
1/4" MS
1/4" MS
1/8" MS
1/8" MS
gap
5"
5"
5"
5"
1"
1"
1"
plate 3
3 mm
3 mm
2mm
2mm
2mm
2mm
2mm
1"
1"
1"
1"
5"
4 1/4"
5 1/2"
7"
9"
1/16" MS
1/16" MS
1/16" MS
1/16" MS
6mm
1/4" MS
1/4" MS
1/8" MS
1/8" MS
9"
1/8" MS
9"
1/8" MS
5"
1/8" MS
5"
1/8" MS
1/8" MS
1/8" MS
1/8" MS
1/8" MS
1/8" MS
1/8" MS
1/8" MS
5"
7"
7"
7"
7"
5"
4"
3"
1/8" MS
1/8" MS
1/8" MS
1/8" MS
1/8" MS
1/8" MS
1/8" MS
1/8" MS
5"
9"
8"
7"
6"
7"
7"
7"
3/16" MS
+ 1/8" MS
3/16" MS
+ 1/8" MS
1/4" MS
1/4" MS
1/4" MS
1/4" MS
1/4" MS
1/4" MS
1/4" MS
1/4" MS
angle
normal
normal
normal
10
10
10
normal
normal
10
normal
10
normal
normal
normal
normal
normal
stopped
4
0
0
5
4
1
4
0
1
1
4
6
2
3
2
2
0
0
out of
5
3
3
5
5
3
5
2
5
4
5
10
5
5
3
2
3
2
normal
normal
normal
normal
normal
normal
normal
normal
normal
normal
0
2
2
4
1
2
3
1
3
2
2
4
3
2
3
3
normal
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The entry for "Bazooka" credits the 2.36" weapon with penetration of "as much as 5 inches (127mm) of
armour plate at 300 yards (270 metres)". Neither type nor slope of armour are specified.
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E Warhurst and ACM Sir James Robb, HMSO, 1962, page 549. "Penetration against homogenous
armour plate at 30 angle of attack", ranges in yards.
Gun
75mm Mark V
US 57mm
6-pdr Mark V
US 3-in or 76mm
US 90mm
6-pdr Mark V
17-pdr Mark II
75mm KwK or PAK 40
88mm KwK 36
75mm KwK 42
88mm KwK 43
128mm PaK 44
Projectile
APCBC
APC
APCBC
APC
APC
DS ('Sabot')
APCBC
DS ('Sabot')
APCBC
APCBC
APCBC
APCBC
APCBC
100
74
93
109
123
143
149
221
99
120
138
202
500
68
81
87
99
113
131
140
208
92
112
128
187
212
1000
60
64
80
89
104
117
130
192
84
102
118
168
202
2000
47
50
67
73
87
90
111
161
66
88
100
137
182
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Ellis, 1993
"The World War II Databook", John Ellis, Aurum, 1993, page 304. Ranges in yards, armour type and
Ammo
250
500
32
40
56
83
67
109
28
28
53
60
61
77
46
75
92
108
96
120
110
156
24
1000
30
1500
2000
40
28
22
50
38
29
41
75
82
87
85
97
100
138
33
30
72
69
74
77
91
123
63
80
PzGr 40
50mm L42
PzGr 40
50mm L60
PzGr 40
75mm L24
Hl
75mm L43
PzGr 40
75mm L48
PzGr 40
88mm L56
PzGr 40
It 20mm
750
29
46
42
56
46
42
75
64
84
110
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It 37mm
It 47mm
Jap 20mm ATR
37mm type 94
47mm type 1
Marosczek
37mm wz 36
Boys ATR
2pdr
48 (400)
38
32
32
30 (270)
24
51
HV shot
37mm
6pdr
17pdr
75mm M2
75mm M3
76mm
25pdr
Sov 37mm
Sov 45mm
Sov 57mm
76mm F-34
85mm D-5
100mm D-10
122mm M-30
M72
M61
M61
20 (300)
40 (100)
21 (300)
58
64
58
33
52
57
53
79
26
46
51
48
72
120
61
66
66
DS AP
HE AP
HE AP
63
38 (400)
80
140
92
138
195
145
58
40
45
47
65
113
53
61
61
98
54
52
96
46
56
56
82
38
51
51
50
145
60
100
185
145
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Farrar-Hockley, 1976
"Infantry Tactics 1939-1945", Anthony Farrar-Hockley, Almark, 1976, page 41. Ammunition and armour
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Range
1000
Slope
30
Penetration
40
Featherstone, 1973
"Tank Battles in Miniature: A wargamer's guide to the Western Desert Campaign 19401942", Donald
Featherstone, Patrick Stevens Ltd, 1973, pages 141143. "At 5090 angle-of-impact gun can penetrate
maximum armour thickness of: (in millimetres)", ranges in yards, armour and ammunition types
unspecified.
Weapon Angle
37mm
50
90
75mm M2
50
90
75mm M3
50
90
2 pdr
50
90
6 pdr
50
90
25 pdr
50
90
20/55
50
KwK
90
sPzB 41
50
90
37/45
50
KwK
90
37/45
50
PaK
90
47mm
50
PaK
90
50/60
50
PaK
90
50/60
50
KwK
90
75/24
50
KwK
90
75/43-48
50
KwK
90
75/46
50
PaK
90
88/56
50
KwK
90
200
56
65
66
76
77
87
56
66
93
108
80
89
32
35
54
63
49
61
55
64
55
69
120
142
67
89
50
60
100
115
115
144
118
130
400
50
58
61
70
69
80
50
58
85
99
71
73
24
28
50
57
40
52
47
55
57
66
98
129
63
82
45
53
93
107
109
138
112
134
600
42
51
55
64
62
73
42
51
79
92
66
68
16
19
38
45
32
43
39
46
53
62
80
112
59
75
38
45
87
102
104
132
108
122
1000
26
29
45
53
50
59
26
29
60
70
52
58
12
15
16
26
22
29
46
54
55
84
50
61
27
30
80
93
94
121
101
107
1600
2000
28
33
33
39
19
23
22
25
36
43
31
38
35
41
33
54
34
40
12
14
63
74
79
103
90
94
2600
3000
20
24
19
26
10
19
5
15
27
30
18
35
23
28
12
14
0
5
10
12
52
63
72
91
82
86
35
50
53
70
71
76
24
39
40
59
63
68
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On p. 95, the following figures for the 88mm FlaK are given, against homogenous armour at 30:
Ammunition
PzGr 39
PzGr 40
500
111
157
1000
102
141
1500
93
126
2000
86
114
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Fleischer, 1994
"Panzerfaust and other German Infantry Anti-Tank Weapons", Wolfgang Fleischer, Schiffer, 1994, page
47 (figure for 3.7cm PaK from text). Ranges in metres, armour type and slope not specified.
Weapon
3.7cm PaK
AP rifle bullet
ATk rifle gren 30
Large ATk rifle gren
ATk Rifle Gren 46
ATk rifle gren 61
ATk rifle gren GGP
Wurfkrper 326 HL/LP
Panzerwurfkrper 42 LP
Panzerbsche 38 or 39
Granatbsche 39
Panzerbsche 35(P)
Panzerbsche 783(r) or 784(r)
ATk hand gren 41
Range
500
100
40
80
60-80
60-80
75
300
80
100
100
10-15
Penetration
29
8
50
80
90
125
45
50
80
25
80
30
30
30
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0
0
0
0
0
0
70 (max)
30
30
60-75
100
150
250-300
150-180
150
130
150
140
180
80-100
60
140
140
200
200
200
220
220
160
220
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Forty, 1979
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"U.S. Army Handbook" (first edition), George Forty, Ian Allan, 1979, pages 99 and 107. Ammunition and
Range
1000
1000
1000
Angle
20
20
20
90
Forty, 1999
"Japanese Army Handbook 19391945", George Forty, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1999, pages 132, 147 and
Range
250 metres
1000 yards
500 yards
1000 yards
Penetration
2.95
24
50
52.5
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Foss, 1974
"Artillery of the World" (first edition), Christopher Foss, Ian Allan, 1974. Ranges in metres, armour type
Calibre
57mm
76mm
152mm
152mm
M-1942 ZIS-3
76mm
M-1943 ZIS-2
57mm
M-1942
M-1939 (LAA)
ZPU-1
M-101A1 How
M-1 LAA
45mm
37mm
14.5mm
105mm
40mm
Ammunition
Semi-AP
Semi-AP
152mm
APHE
122mm
122mm
100mm
85mm
APHE
HEAT
APHE
APHE
HVAP
APHE
HVAP
HEAT
APHE
HVAP
HVAP
AP
API
HEAT
Range
475
1000
1000
1000
1000
1000
1000
1000
1000
500
500
500
500
500
500
500
1500
900
Penetration
118
222
82
82
124
190
200
185
102
130
69
92
120
106
140
66
46
32
102
50 @ 30
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1976. Ammunition type and armour type and slope not stated, ranges in yards.
Weapon
US 37mm
PTRD
sPzB41
German ATk grenades
PIAT
Jap hollow charge grenade
Lunge mine
Stielgranate
Range
1000
333
440
100200
100
0
0/90
0/60
200
Penetration
38
38
51
63127
102
76
152
102
152
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Gander, 1998
"The Bazooka: Hand-Held Hollow-Charge Anti-Tank Weapons", Terry J Gander, Parkgate Books, 1998.
Projectile
HEAT M6(A1, A3, A5)
HEAT M28
RPzBGr 4322 or 4992 (54)
Angle
unspecified
unspecified
30
30
30
unspecified
unspecified
Penetration
120
265
160
140
200
120
100+
Range
500
500
500
1000
1000
1000
Penetration
61
60
70
80
88
120
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Ammunition
Hollow charge
300
300
750
2500
500
400
600
900
300
300
14.5mm PzB
783 or 784(r)
100
300
500
100
300
30
30
80
100
150
200
StielGranate 41
Weapon
2.5cm Pak 112(f) (L/72)
2.5cm Pak 113(f) (L/77)
4.7 cm Pak 36(t)
4.7cm Pak 181 or 183(f)
4 cm Pak 192(e)
200
Penetration @ 30
25
20
25
140
120
200
100
37
Hollow charge
Panzerfaust klein
Panzerfaust 30
Panzerfaust 60
Panzerfaust 100
Panzerfaust 150
Panzerfaust 250
RPzB 54, 54/1
PaK 35/36
Penetration @ 0
219
202
187
300
7.92mm M SS 41
13mm EW 141
8 cm PAW 600
7.5/5.5 cm Pak 44
10 cm PAW 600
Hammer
3.7 cm Pak 36(p)
Range
500
1000
1500
40
38
2533
21
30
27.5
25
2022
1518
140
200
200
200
200
200
160
180
Range
600
600
1200
200
183
365
548
500
Penetration
50
50 (not confirmed)
60 (homogenous)
80
60
55
51
140
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England
German designation
7.92mm PzB 35(p)
4 cm Pak 192(e)
Switzerland
Original designation
wz 35 Maroszcek
wz 36
PTRD-41
PTRS-41
45mm PTP M-1930
45mm PTP M-1932
57mm PTP M-1941 ZiS-2
76mm M-1936
0.55" Boys Mk I
OQF 2 pr
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