Anti-tank warfare

Anti-tank warfare originated during World War I from the desire to develop technology and tactics to destroy tanks.^[1]

Pictures

A soldier preparing to fire the FGR-17 Viper, an American experimental one-man disposable antitank rocket.
British Indian Army tank-hunting squad with anti-tank rifle and Molotov cocktails in the North African Campaign, on 6 October 1940.
A British 17-pounder anti-tank gun towed behind Half-track in Italy, 1 September 1944.
A British heavy tank of World War One.
A disabled Mark IV tank near Cambrai, 1917 – World War I.
Czechoslovak anti-tank gun 3,7cm KPÚV vz. 37.
Soviet Ilyushin Il-2 planes with 23mm cannons attacking a German tank column during the Battle of Kursk.
Bofors 37 mm anti-tank gun as used by several nations.
German PaK 38 50-mm anti-tank gun.
The British Archer self-propelled anti-tank gun put the 17-pdr gun on the hull of a Valentine tank.
PTRS-41 anti-tank rifle at the Museum of the Great Patriotic War in Moscow.
British PIAT .
PARS 3 LR with HEAT warhead of the German Army.
A statue of a Vietminh soldier holding a Lunge AT Mine. In Vietnamese the mine is called bom ba càng, literally means "three-clawed bomb".
Sticky bomb in production.
A Finnish Army with a Molotov cocktail in the 1939–40 Winter War.
Examples of Czech hedgehogs deployed on the Atlantic Wall in the vicinity of Calais.
Panzerfaust armed German soldiers on the Eastern Front, 1945.
Chinese suicide bomber putting on an explosive vest made out of Model 24 hand grenades to use in an attack on Japanese tanks at the Battle of Taierzhuang in 1938.
AH-64 Apache, an anti-tank helicopter with eight AGM-114 Hellfire missiles.
South African tank gun retrofitted to an Ordnance QF 17-pounder carriage.
Australian Army Land Rover Series 2 "gunbuggy" with an M40 recoilless rifle used in the anti-tank role.
Soviet RPG-7.
South African Sherman tank disabled in the fight to take the Perugia Highlands in Italy 1944 – World War 2.