![]() ![]() This design has been adopted by Swedish army in 1942 as the m/42, but its small-caliber solid projectile was hardly effective against the new tanks, which emerged during the Second Worldwar. Their first design, a shoulder-fired, single shot weapon, fired a20mm solid projectile from a rifled barrel. Swedish arms designers began to experiment with recoilless antitank rifles in early 1940s. Recoilless ( + rocket booster on some types of ammunition)ġ000 meters against stationary targets with rocket-boosted ammunition Just two types of many dozens of different 84mm rounds – the rocket-boosted HEATround at left, and the HE-FRAG round at right, both made in Belgium by Mecar. Carl-Gustaf M2 (Swedish designation m/48) antitank recoilless rifle.Ĭarl-Gustaf M3 (Swedish designation m/86) antitank recoilless rifle.Ĭarl-Gustaf M2 recoilless rifle / launcher with the breech open for loading.Ĭanadian soldier reloads the Carl-Gustaf M3 recoilless rifle. ![]()
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