Anti-tank warfare

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

## Pictures 

File:FGR-17 VIPER.jpg |A soldier preparing to fire the , an American experimental one-man disposable antitank rocket. 

File:Indian troops in North Africa parade with a Boys anti-tank rifle and 'Molotov cocktail' petrol bombs, 6 October 1940. E699.jpg |British Indian Army tank-hunting squad with anti-tank rifle and Molotov cocktails in the North African Campaign, on 6 October 1940. 

File:The British Army in Italy 1944 NA18188.jpg|right | A British  towed behind  in Italy, 1 September 1944. 

File:The Battle of Arras, April-May 1917 Q6286.jpg | A  of World War One. 

File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-R27012, Bei Cambrai erbeuteter englischer Panzer.jpg|right |A disabled  near Cambrai, 1917 – World War I. 

File:Protitankový kanón 3,7 cm vz.gif | Czechoslovak anti-tank gun . 

File:RIAN archive 225 IL-2 attacking.jpg |Soviet Ilyushin Il-2 planes with 23mm cannons attacking a German tank column during the Battle of Kursk. 

File:37mm bofors antitank gun parola 2.jpg |Bofors 37&nbsp;mm anti-tank gun as used by several nations.

File:Pak38 cfb borden 2.JPG | German  50-mm anti-tank gun. 

File:Archer SP 17 pdr Tank Destroyer.jpg|right |The British  self-propelled anti-tank gun put the 17-pdr gun on the hull of a . 

File:PTRS rifle at Great Patriotic War museum in Smolensk.jpg | anti-tank rifle at the  in Moscow.

File:PIAT cropped.jpg |British .

File:Trigat-LR-detoured.jpg | with HEAT warhead of the German Army.

File:Lunge AT Mine.jpg|right |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".

File:Production of Sticky Bombs.jpg | in production. 

File:Talvisota Molotov Cocktail.PNG|right |A  with a Molotov cocktail in the 1939–40 Winter War. 

File:Bundesarchiv Bild 101I-719-0240-26, Pas de Calais, Atlantikwall, Panzersperren.jpg  | Examples of  deployed on the Atlantic Wall in the vicinity of Calais. 

File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-H28150, Deutsche Soldaten mit Panzerfäusten.jpg|Panzerfaust armed German soldiers on the Eastern Front, 1945. 

File:Chinese infantry soldier preparing a suicide vest of Model 24 hand grenades at the Battle of Taierzhuang against Japanese Tanks.jpg |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  in 1938. 

File:Boeing AH-64D Apache Longbow, Netherlands - Air Force AN0880457.jpg|AH-64 Apache, an anti-tank helicopter with eight  missiles.

File:Baasjan1.JPG |South African tank gun retrofitted to an  carriage.

File:106mm land rover.JPG |  "gunbuggy" with an  used in the anti-tank role.

File:ISF member armed with RPG-7.jpg |Soviet RPG-7.

File:6SADiv Tanks disabled Perugia.jpg|South African Sherman tank disabled in the fight to take the Perugia Highlands in Italy 1944 – World War 2. 

## Related pages 
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* Anti-tank gun ()
* Bombard (weapon)
* Attack aircraft
* Attack helicopter
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* Anti-tank missile
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## References 
## Other websites 
* A 1987 U.S. Army news archive about light anti-tank weapon training by the 7th Infantry Division (Light), Fort Ord, Calif.