PTRD-41 Anti-Tank Rifle - In The Movies

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  • A brief overview of the PTRD-41 as seen in war movies and video games.
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    Movies /Video Games featured:
    Unknown Soldier 2017
    Panfilov’s 28 Men 2016
    Sniper: Ghost Shooter 2016
    Sword Art Online 2012
    Back in Time 2008
    Tali-Ihantala 1944 - 2007
    Battle for Moscow 1985
    Front in the Rear of the Enemy 1981
    Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro 1979
    One-Two, Soldiers were Going… 1977
    They Fought for Their Country 1975
    Sokolovo 1975
    Long Miles of War 1975
    Stop That Tank 1942
    World of Guns: Gun Disassembly (Video Game)
    Hell Let Loose (Video Game)
    Battlefield 5 (Video Game)
    World War Heroes (Video Game)
    #ww2 #guns

Komentáře • 611

  • @mangoz808
    @mangoz808 Před 2 lety +1597

    something interesting about the PTRD that isn't depicted in film is that the barrel assembly and pistol grip/ stock assembly are two different pieces, and the barrel rides on a set of rails. when the gun is fired, the barrel recoils back and the bolt handle strikes a camming surface and is forced open, ejecting the spent round. It basically removes a step in reloading. But since they are using blanks in movies, there is no way to generate the extreme amounts of energy needed to recoil the barrel, so we see the actors having to open the bolt conventionally.

    • @Assassinus2
      @Assassinus2 Před 2 lety +137

      Forgotten Weapons did a video on the PTRD where Ian tried to demonstrate this with the help of an assistant.
      It was entertaining to watch.

    • @HappiKarafuru
      @HappiKarafuru Před 2 lety +34

      Yep, i seen most of the movie features this weapon but i realize something is abit off. Why it being operated like a normal bolt action while real one it took like Arnold Schwarzenegger to pull the entire bolt just to cock the firing pin. Plus it suppose to be had some sort of semi automatic ish..kinda operations despite being single shot, treat it like said a miniature AT gun.

    • @burnttaco2869
      @burnttaco2869 Před 2 lety +1

      Actors would need king breaks after during that

    • @thedandy6765
      @thedandy6765 Před 2 lety +4

      in that way it could be made magfed and sorta semi auto even
      but i dont think a 14.5mm rifle would be nice to fire in semi

    • @teolynx3805
      @teolynx3805 Před 2 lety +22

      @@thedandy6765 actually there was a semi rifle. PTRS (Simonov's anti-tank rifle). It was fed from a 5 rounds fixed mag. But yes it wasn't used at it's full rate of fire.

  • @BHuang92
    @BHuang92 Před 2 lety +1059

    Fun Fact:
    The PTRS-41 gas operation system was scaled down by Simonov to create the SKS.

    • @JensTX
      @JensTX Před 2 lety +43

      Yeah, the workings of that gun are similar to a PTRS, which is interesting to see to be fair

    • @alfredoelias4760
      @alfredoelias4760 Před 2 lety +1

      Poggers

    • @activatekruger446
      @activatekruger446 Před 2 lety +25

      One of my first guns was a Yugoslavian SKS in beautiful condition. Picked it up for about sixty bucks.

    • @BeingFireRetardant
      @BeingFireRetardant Před 2 lety +22

      @@activatekruger446
      Lol, same gun now goes for $700-$1200...

    • @WhattAreYouSaying
      @WhattAreYouSaying Před 2 lety +6

      Yes, it's very interesting. If you disassemble the two weapons and look at the parts, the internals are exactly the same. The bolt, firing pin, extractor, mechanics and everything is exactly the same. They are just much bigger on the PTRS. The SKS is basically a small PTRS.

  • @edwardvincentbriones5062
    @edwardvincentbriones5062 Před 2 lety +503

    We must not forget that the 14.5 cartridge is used outside its anti-tank capability. The most notable gun outside AT to use the cartridge is the Russian KPV heavy machine gun. It’s success spawned its more widely used AA variants.

  • @bernardfrederic6535
    @bernardfrederic6535 Před 2 lety +465

    Even in the Korean war PTRDs were in use. Some of them , captured by U.S. troops were converted to long range sniper rifles and became one of the ancestors of modern .50 cal snipers guns.

    • @digitaal_boog
      @digitaal_boog Před 2 lety +12

      .50 cal sniper guns? You mean the Barrett M82 and other Barrett’s?

    • @bernardfrederic6535
      @bernardfrederic6535 Před 2 lety +61

      @@digitaal_boog And there are a lot more . . . like: the Hecate, McMillan, Steyr HS50, OSV-96, the Gepart, KSVK, etc.

    • @bragslvbm3870
      @bragslvbm3870 Před 2 lety +4

      My grandpa did this and was known for harassing fire across valleys

    • @dimakapeev3156
      @dimakapeev3156 Před 2 lety +12

      They still in use in Donbass as sniper rifles.

    • @leo.r9253
      @leo.r9253 Před 2 lety +4

      They are even used right now in ukraine

  • @leewaffe3
    @leewaffe3 Před 2 lety +207

    Great coverage of the PTRD. You can also add one of the lesser known Soviet Movies called "Ballad of the Soldier" (1959) where the opening scene depicts a two man PTRD team as the last to hold off a German armor attack, the scene is a little corny but still incorporates the prowess the Soviets held in the PTRD. It was one of the first Soviet movies in the early Cold War to earn significant praise in the west for its cinematic depiction of humanity and story in the drama of war without glory, much like "They Fought For Their Country" (1975). Its a great movie and story that follows a lone teenage conscript who, after destroying 2 tanks with a PTRD is awarded a medal by the Front Commander, but asks for 3 days of leave in exhcange to see his mother whom he never got to say goodbye. The Commander agrees, and grants a full week instead. The story follows him as he journeys home meeting different people and experiencing the hardships of the Soviet homefront.

    • @klegdixal3529
      @klegdixal3529 Před 2 lety +11

      Ballad of the Soldier was the first one that came to my mind. was surprised it wasn't used in the video but then again the pool of films used in these videos seems rather limited.

    • @JohnnyJohnsonEsq
      @JohnnyJohnsonEsq  Před 2 lety +26

      I'm a one man crew pooring over footage. Pooring through soviet movies is no easy task.

    • @klegdixal3529
      @klegdixal3529 Před 2 lety +14

      @@JohnnyJohnsonEsq no worries. Ballad of the soldier can easily get under the radar if one is looking for combat footage, as mentioned above it's just one scene setting the film up. But it's a good film.
      Did you try and watch Come and See? Not your typical war flick and not recommended on an empty stomach.

    • @joeelliott2157
      @joeelliott2157 Před rokem +1

      If there is one film on the PTRD that I would choice to show in this video, it would be "Ballad of a Soldier".

  • @suvorovoleg9325
    @suvorovoleg9325 Před 2 lety +11

    At 7:10 he says "dva puda" (32 kg or about 70 pounds), that phrase is used not to define the exact weight, but to say 'veeeeery heavy!'.

  • @soviettankmen
    @soviettankmen Před 2 lety +75

    Indeed, as you said, PTRD-41 role as an anti-tank weapon during the late war was limited because of the increased protection of the german tanks, but it's still capable to destroy fortification. Not only that, when the Soviet launched invasion to Manchuria, PTRD-41 showed a great success against japanese tanks. Source: Soviet Storm, War Against Japan

  • @mathewkelly9968
    @mathewkelly9968 Před 2 lety +295

    Would still be useful against anything that isn't an MBT or the very latest western IFV , more than capable of knocking anything else out .

    • @JohnnyJohnsonEsq
      @JohnnyJohnsonEsq  Před 2 lety +63

      Absolutely

    • @Stripedbottom
      @Stripedbottom Před 2 lety +41

      I saw one quite recently in a clip which featured a heap of weapons captured from the ISIS.

    • @fritzbucher4726
      @fritzbucher4726 Před 2 lety +34

      They have been being used in Ukraine since 2014. Lots of videos of them being currently used.

    • @BHuang92
      @BHuang92 Před 2 lety +36

      As a anti-tank rifle against MBTs it is obsolete but it still makes a great anti-material rifle, especially against light vehicles!

    • @Assassinus2
      @Assassinus2 Před 2 lety +26

      The KPV heavy machine gun uses the 14.5mm cartridge used by the PTRD for this very reason.
      The Soviet BRDM recon car and BTR wheeled APC were both armed with this machine gun, and the Soviets also used them in twin and quad mounts as a light anti-aircraft gun.

  • @umbrum2
    @umbrum2 Před 2 lety +57

    Somthing to note about the weapons is that is was also widely used in Anti material role. Dug in MG teams, trucks, field equipment, all where sutible targets even after the late war german designs where rolling around. Also Germany's most produced tank(the stug was a SPG) was the panzer 4. So if you AT rifle is good against most of common enemy equipment that it was never out dated even in late war.

    • @MatthewT394
      @MatthewT394 Před 2 lety +2

      it still was technically no longer a AT gun

    • @timthorson52
      @timthorson52 Před 2 lety +5

      Something to note, these still pop up in wars as anti material rifles.

  • @quigonjinn3567
    @quigonjinn3567 Před rokem +81

    The Polish "Wz. 35 anti-tank rifle" was unique in the fact that it didn't used AP rounds, it was a small & soft high velosity round that worked similar to later HESH rounds, but with out explosives. The soft projectile flew at about 1275 m/s (4,180 ft/s) & would cause the armor plate inside the tank to tear off & bounce inside the tank like an shrapnel.
    Poland made also this "Nkm wz.38 FK" but too little too late...

    • @ryanjfjrjrjrjrj
      @ryanjfjrjrjrjrj Před rokem

      Like mini hesh rounds

    • @einundsiebenziger5488
      @einundsiebenziger5488 Před rokem

      ... it didn't use* / high-velocity* round / without* explosives ...

    • @quigonjinn3567
      @quigonjinn3567 Před rokem +2

      @@einundsiebenziger5488 Please go back 2 GerMoney where you belong you god damn grammar nazi.

    • @DVXDemetrivs
      @DVXDemetrivs Před 5 měsíci

      Which one of them had chemical weapons ammunition?

    • @stellarfox5869
      @stellarfox5869 Před 5 měsíci

      @@DVXDemetrivs none of them. there's no point in making HEAT rounds for rifles because you can achieve better results and way cheaper by simply using better materials or higher velocity for your bullet if slightly more penetration is needed

  • @Assassinus2
    @Assassinus2 Před 2 lety +25

    Forgotten Weapons did a video on the PTRD which included a hilarious bit where Ian and an assistant attempted to demonstrate the rifle’s quarter-automatic (?) action.

    • @kemarisite
      @kemarisite Před 2 lety +4

      Having the recoil open the breach and eject the spent cartridge case, leaving it open for loading the next round, is exactly what qualifies as "semi-automatic" for large caliber guns.

  • @HappiKarafuru
    @HappiKarafuru Před 2 lety +48

    The only error when i realize most of the movie features the weapon didn't have features that unique to the Ptrd-41 that is the bolt will automatically force backward into cocking position after firing a round due to pressure and recoil created by the 14mm projectile which makes Ptrd-41 almost had a semi automatic features all be that it a single shot weapon.

    • @user-if1jm4ef1k
      @user-if1jm4ef1k Před 2 lety

      @William Burns no modification needed. Watch here
      czcams.com/video/e2toitczqkg/video.html

    • @hjorturerlend
      @hjorturerlend Před rokem +3

      It's semi automatic in artillery terminology.

    • @whyistheclocktickingsomuch
      @whyistheclocktickingsomuch Před měsícem

      ​@@hjorturerlendso if we slapped an artillery shell somehow inside it would count as semi auto

    • @hjorturerlend
      @hjorturerlend Před měsícem

      @@whyistheclocktickingsomuch More or less, tho we are obviously just playing around with semantics.

  • @shoot2kill647
    @shoot2kill647 Před 10 měsíci +6

    1:29 It's not "to the left, Makar" it's "he's dead, Makar"

  • @amacheez3270
    @amacheez3270 Před rokem +6

    "oh fuck that's an anti tank rifle"
    "OH FUCK THAT'S AN ANTI TANK RIFLE!"

  • @NoMoreCrumbs
    @NoMoreCrumbs Před 2 lety +19

    If I remember correctly, the heavy rifle from Metro: Last Light is a PTRD with a sort of magazine rigged up to feed a few rounds into the action. The bolt at least looks the same

  • @novat9731
    @novat9731 Před rokem +11

    If you're a follower of TIK, watching his Stalingrad series. You will come across a near excessive amount of situations, where German armor were unavailable due to awaiting repairs. Sure it's spectacular to see the turret of a tank go flying 50 meters, thoroughly making the tank completely destroyed, with almost no parts being salvageable. But a 14,5mm round hitting a drive sprocket, may cause significant enough damage to put the tank in the shop the next time the panzer battalion attack, now with 1 fewer tank.

  • @gryphon9507
    @gryphon9507 Před 2 lety +37

    PTRD-41 etc were pretty good at what is called mobility kills. Like you said they could take advantage of early German tank side armor shots, and later could still be used to break tank tracks from the front.

  • @rismarck
    @rismarck Před 2 lety +20

    Say whatcha want bout Russian engineering, they made one of the deadliest anti tank rifles look so simplified like a pipe rifle from fallout

  • @dimasabiyoso2918
    @dimasabiyoso2918 Před 2 lety +14

    In the movie battle of Sevastopol, it's also shown the devastating effect of a broken bulletproof glass although it was fired from a Mosin Nagant

  • @copter2000
    @copter2000 Před 2 lety +17

    love using this in RO2. Really fun when you hit the magazine.

    • @niichhe
      @niichhe Před 2 lety +7

      In RO2, it was the PTRS

    • @CakeDispenser
      @CakeDispenser Před 2 lety +4

      In Red Orchestra Ostfront 41-45 they had the PTRD which was single shot.

    • @niichhe
      @niichhe Před 2 lety +3

      @@CakeDispenser precisely

  • @Bennybarker08
    @Bennybarker08 Před 7 měsíci +1

    3:59 the funny thing in the movie when Jigen shoots it he bloody gets launch by the recoil

  • @hanshuckderdritte4113
    @hanshuckderdritte4113 Před 2 lety +2

    04:44 What a hilarious jump from the motor-bike!

  • @Graham-ce2yk
    @Graham-ce2yk Před 2 lety +12

    As always, thanks for covering this one. The round used by the PTRD ended up being the basis for the round used by the KPV machine gun, as an earlier commenter noted. The same thing could have happened with the Boys anti-tank rifle. The British got Rolls-Royce to work up a machine gun that could fire Boys ammunition, by all accounts it worked, but American Browning .50s were available quicker and cheaper.

  • @thekhoifish0146
    @thekhoifish0146 Před 2 lety +24

    I rarely got tank kills with these in Enlisted, but it sure was satisfying whenever I did
    Also first hehe

    • @u.nforcesalx9892
      @u.nforcesalx9892 Před 2 lety +3

      Remember to know what ur shooting at, I suggest looking up some blueprints for some of those tanks and looking where you'd shoot it

  • @mackers4393
    @mackers4393 Před 2 lety +4

    0:47 Propably the best thing is that the first guy's gun doesn't fire and then when it finally does it scares him

  • @judsongaiden9878
    @judsongaiden9878 Před rokem +3

    This thing was fun to use in Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45.
    1:52 I've shot one of those. Specifically, the Mk.1* ("mark one star"), the .50 BMG version w/harmonica muzzle brake. Dude who owned it even let his grandkids shoot it and they did just fine. Reciprocating barrel absorbs most of the recoil.

  • @rolfagten857
    @rolfagten857 Před 2 lety +6

    This PTRD-41 with scope also featured in "The Werewolf Hunt" 2011 Russian title :"Охота на Вервольфа". At 32 minutes in the warmovie.

  • @jackcleary1873
    @jackcleary1873 Před rokem +3

    5:12 I think that’s the most cursed tiger I’ve ever seen

  • @o.r.grinter7763
    @o.r.grinter7763 Před 2 lety +1

    So well researched and put together, well done man 👍🏻

  • @usarmy500
    @usarmy500 Před rokem +1

    2:04 it’s like some secret weapon they have he says it so proudly

  • @tomoegozen7645
    @tomoegozen7645 Před 2 lety +4

    Thanks for the video, I always thought the side skirting on the tanks was to make them more viable against side hits from other tanks' main weapons. Did not know they were installed to protect against Anti-tank rifle rounds.

  • @lonewalker8268
    @lonewalker8268 Před 2 lety +3

    If I can recall. The PTRD and PTRS are designs that were very fast to be produced. I think it's like within 7 days or something along those lines.

  • @jamesbednar8625
    @jamesbednar8625 Před 2 lety +22

    Awesome video!!! Also, IF I remember correctly, this anti-tank rifle was featured in the very 1st "Call of Duty" game - back in those ancient days when that franchise focused on WWII. Do recall that as a Soviet soldier, your mission was to run around a bombed-out apartment building trying your darndest to hold off a German assault with infantry and tanks. Think it was during Stalingrad when that mission took place. Also remember that mission being very brutal.

    • @JB-pk8vm
      @JB-pk8vm Před 2 lety

      Pavlov building if I remember

    • @slaughterround643
      @slaughterround643 Před 2 lety +5

      Red Orchestra 2 has a brilliant rendition of Pavlov's House.
      Go play RO2. Now.

    • @cameronnewton7053
      @cameronnewton7053 Před 2 lety +4

      Yes! I remember that excellent game! For me that was one of the most difficult missions charging around dodging jerries and just trying to remember where the blasted things where, plus just trying to storm the building in the first place. I think it featured in other missions too .

  • @Rybo-Senpai
    @Rybo-Senpai Před rokem +2

    The PzB 39 can be found in Sniper Elite 5 just lying around on some missions, in the first mission it can be found in the upstairs of a Café in the small town along the shore in the Square.

  • @paczkmacik
    @paczkmacik Před 2 lety +1

    I love how you started including HLL moments

  • @TESL4T4NK
    @TESL4T4NK Před rokem +1

    Love the short documentary on the PTRD! Absolutely my favorite firearm of all time. Wish I could find one just to restore and take out once in a blue moon. I remember nerding out when they featured it on Sword Art Online: GGO.

  • @arnijulian6241
    @arnijulian6241 Před 2 lety +32

    Great video Johnny!
    You managed to pick an arm I know little about, being the PTRD-41
    If interested in USSR anti tank weapons then look up Ampulomet a incendiary ampule projector introduced at the same time in 1941 as the PTRD but was dropped by 1942
    The ampules used 4/5 phosphorous & 1/5 sulphur to burn a as a gas to pass into the cabin of a tank.
    Their was also a similar principal bottle thrower attached the Mosin-nagant rifle

  • @tizanikandothers
    @tizanikandothers Před 2 lety +13

    I've been in a Russian museum and I had the luck of see it in real life I can say that is HUGE and HEAVY but who cares this thing kills tanks

  • @nateb6883
    @nateb6883 Před 2 lety +8

    I know that in cod waw you use a PTRD-41 in the last or second to last mission as more of an anti-flamethrower rifle and a sniper. You also use it to shoot down a big sign that symbolized the German defeat.

  • @Lord.Kiltridge
    @Lord.Kiltridge Před 2 lety +4

    Dude. You watch way more movies than I do.

  • @salavat294
    @salavat294 Před rokem +1

    The effects of a PTRD were enhanced by the use of tungsten cored projectiles. When this projectile type penetrated into a tank it, very often, did not have enough kinetic energy to leave the tank. The bullet, however, still retained massive amounts of kinetic energy (several times that of normal rifle ammunition), and so, would begin to ricochet inside the unfortunate tank, turning it into a giant blender . If in the process of ricocheting, it happens to detonate canon round, all the better.
    There is a legend of a Siberian sniper who’s wartime tally consisted of a few hundred Kraut soldiers, two tanks, and a Messerschmidt. Apparently, the tank-kills happened while the sniper’s unit was entrenched against a Nazi attack. The PTRD crew was killed in a barrage. The sniper manned the anti-tank rifle and shot through the driver’s vision-slit. The Messerschmidt was shot down with a well-placed shot to the engine-oil cooling radiator.

  • @ittakir
    @ittakir Před rokem +23

    "Panfilov's 28 men" is the only one modern russian film about WWII that I definitely can recommend. Unlike other modern russian films about WWII this one was actually about fighting against enemy. Commanders were depicted as competent and warriors were normal people of different nationalities.
    On the other scale is "Burnt by the Sun 2" by the famous russian film director Mihalkov. That film is so sick and twisted that you want to dunk the author's head in a street toilet.

    • @whocares427
      @whocares427 Před rokem

      What was wrong with it?

    • @ittakir
      @ittakir Před rokem +2

      @@whocares427 For example, instead of dropping bombs German pilot decided to put out his ass and take a shit. To do a shit bomb. 🫢

    • @Edgariki
      @Edgariki Před 11 měsíci

      @@whocares427 Its spit in the grave to those, who fighted in WWII and disgrace to humanity.
      Every character is unlikeable, every officer is retarded, everyone pointing gun at each other, like its was bandits from western movies(insert funny joke about gulag). Plot doesnt make sense, and logic is non existant.
      To show how absurd this i would shortly describe two scenes.
      1) Two evil german airplanes bombing fleeing civilians and medical stuff, instead of production lines, to the point, when one of the germans decided to stick his "bottom" outside of aircraft and do the popo on civilians.
      2) Super-Duper Alpha soviet unpromoted general with Wolverine finger leading the suicidal roleplay WALK with...civilians armed with shovel sticks to capture the Citadel, without name.Of course other choise is Gulag and shooting squad behind him. How patriotic.
      German SS machine gunner with glasses, sitting in nest, listening classic music, drinking wine, casually watching, telling officer: "but they civilians, how i can shoot them!". At the end, he saw butterfly sat on his gun, he tried carefully remove butterfly, butterfly flying on table, he hit the table, destroyed lamp, lamp burned some ammo and somehow THE WHOLE CITADEL EXPLODED.
      So, if you really wanna watch some decent war movies with good anti-war messages, watch soviet movies and "Panfilov's 28 men".
      Majority films about war produced by russia are either fanfiction at best, some kind of crap similar to "pearl harbor" with less budget, or Gulag pointing guns at Gulag, to move other Gulag to the war.

    • @tjanderson5892
      @tjanderson5892 Před 10 měsíci

      ⁠@@whocares427you’re saying that the films were so bad they warranted a sequel? Lol is Burnt by the Sun 1 good?

    • @whocares427
      @whocares427 Před 10 měsíci

      @@tjanderson5892 the author replied before explaining but the comment isn't here anymore

  • @hungryhedgehog4201
    @hungryhedgehog4201 Před 10 měsíci +1

    The 14.5mm round wasnt just effective against pz IVs but also against the panther. One of the main reasons for the Panther II project was the weak lower side armor of the Panther which was susceptible to light anti tank weapons including concentrated at rifle fire. The Panther II project was then canned when they realised that they could just add 10mm side skirts to protect the lower hull from at rifles.

  • @zepter00
    @zepter00 Před 2 lety +7

    14,5x114. Two times more energy than .50 BMG (12,7x99)

    • @youngthaiarfssoldier8732
      @youngthaiarfssoldier8732 Před 2 lety +2

      One with more power, one with more versatility. Both cartridges have their own purposes, but still as deadly as ever.

    • @zepter00
      @zepter00 Před 2 lety +2

      @@youngthaiarfssoldier8732 14,5mm is two times more deadly.

  • @iowa_lot_to_travel9471
    @iowa_lot_to_travel9471 Před 2 lety +1

    Great showcasing of weapons every time brother man. 👋👋🔥🔥👍👍💪💪

  • @ifv2089
    @ifv2089 Před 2 lety +4

    _Almost the definition of a boom stick_

  • @yeager4298
    @yeager4298 Před 2 lety +7

    It’s also in attack on titan known as a anti titan rifle

  • @RedStarRogue
    @RedStarRogue Před rokem +3

    So from this video I have concluded that Russians apparently love making WWII flicks where a single man holds off mock-up German tanks with a PTRD.

    • @user-wc3cl6sp4j
      @user-wc3cl6sp4j Před 7 měsíci

      Этому есть простое объяснение. Изначально СССР имел танков в пять раз больше. Но очень скоро преимущество было утеряно ( очень похоже на Украинскую войну).
      А это потребовало дешёвое и лёгкое в производстве противотанковое оружие.

  • @iString5
    @iString5 Před 2 lety +2

    3:52 Omfg, that sound effect is also from a game and I'm dying trying to remember which one...

    • @iString5
      @iString5 Před 2 lety

      AHA!! It's the police rifle from Dying Light.

  • @RajaIsThatGuy
    @RajaIsThatGuy Před rokem +3

    Funfact:this gun can penetrate early model panther from the side

  • @GenScinmore
    @GenScinmore Před 2 lety +9

    Cheaper than the tommy gun if I recall.

    • @sheeplord4976
      @sheeplord4976 Před 2 lety +8

      that isn't saying much. The Thompson was insanely expensive for the time.

    • @GenScinmore
      @GenScinmore Před 2 lety +5

      @@sheeplord4976 truth xD

  • @easternhistorian4763
    @easternhistorian4763 Před 2 lety +2

    Takes me back to World at War, ahhh good times.

  • @austingode
    @austingode Před 2 lety +1

    Really good channel, very informative and a great source of unseen ( by me ) war movies 🎥

  • @awes0men0b0dy9
    @awes0men0b0dy9 Před 2 lety +2

    Ahhhhh thank you for showing the caste of caliostro it’s one of my favorites

  • @generaljainitor
    @generaljainitor Před 2 lety +2

    3:40 That guy really wanted to act.

  • @foofooblenda734
    @foofooblenda734 Před 11 měsíci +1

    GREAT VIDEOS THANKS ALWAYS

  • @cascadianrangers728
    @cascadianrangers728 Před 2 lety +2

    With no back blast, you remain very well concealed v.s a panzetfaust or bazooka, even at night firing. If you shoot something with a back blast, you must immediately reposition, not always so with at rifle.
    Not to mention you can shoot from basements, trenches or areas a rockets back blast would kill or at least knock you unconscious

  • @joe__1153
    @joe__1153 Před 2 lety +1

    thanks johnny, enjoyed that

  • @prakashghumaliya2002
    @prakashghumaliya2002 Před 2 lety +1

    Video is great sir
    Thank you

  • @Hiihtopipa
    @Hiihtopipa Před rokem +1

    Unknown soldier is legit the best WW2 movie ever made.

  • @gamelife2982
    @gamelife2982 Před 2 lety +1

    Good to see Lupin on here!

  • @bobwasderty5016
    @bobwasderty5016 Před rokem +2

    I like how you had world war heroes footage since it's a mobile game and not very popular

  • @herrtomkat92
    @herrtomkat92 Před 2 lety +2

    This weapon was better than nothing but I’ve read accounts of soldiers who used them that it was overhyped. It was hard to hit vulnerable ports. More often than not, you’d find tanks after a battle that’ll have dozens of anti tank rifle holes.

  • @Girraffe_o_
    @Girraffe_o_ Před 2 lety +3

    The spaced armour on the panzers worked against heat rounds or HE rounds

  • @cheesedood5313
    @cheesedood5313 Před rokem +1

    Lupin reference caught me off guard

  • @AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg
    @AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg Před 2 měsíci +1

    Our Company Had Boy's and PIAT's, Baz's and Recoilless Gustav's.

  • @kunzilla
    @kunzilla Před 2 lety +1

    I remember using this in Call of Duty: WWII.

  • @FP194
    @FP194 Před 2 lety +1

    Your channel came up in my recommendations and I have been binge watching your videos and you have another subscriber
    I never knew how many old weapons had been dressed up for the movies
    As an owner of an M1 carbine I never knew the rifles in the original Planet of the Apes were M1s

    • @JohnnyJohnsonEsq
      @JohnnyJohnsonEsq  Před 2 lety

      Awesome thanks man! Welcome to the channel. That was a fun fact for me to discover as well.

  • @jeremy28135
    @jeremy28135 Před 2 lety +1

    Good video man 👍

  • @eamonnclabby7067
    @eamonnclabby7067 Před 2 lety +1

    Thought provoking stuff, Johnny....Kudos sir...E

  • @Siddingsby
    @Siddingsby Před rokem +1

    The PTRD shared a common "feature" with the PIAT, in that the recoil of the weapon was supposed to recock it. Which worked 9 times out of 10 but failed to work just often enough to be a nuisance.

  • @RandomPerson-ob1hk
    @RandomPerson-ob1hk Před 2 lety +1

    Let's gooo I love how foreign (well non American and British) films are just on CZcams with subtitles for no reason besides the producers being chads
    Unknown soldier is on yt

  • @Mmmckatana
    @Mmmckatana Před rokem +3

    В фильме «Они сражались за родину» снимались ветераны войны

  • @XMysticHerox
    @XMysticHerox Před 2 lety +2

    Panzerbüchse is pronounced with a hard ch btw. And ü is different as well.

    • @JohnnyJohnsonEsq
      @JohnnyJohnsonEsq  Před 2 lety +1

      yah pronunciation is often my weakness my apologies sir!

  • @nicholasgallo3599
    @nicholasgallo3599 Před 2 lety +2

    Johnny I think you should do the bazooka the us military’s Rocket Launcher in ww2. You should also cover the M16 assault rifle family and the AK-47 assault rifle family. And also the RPG-7. I recommend those for you next few videos

  • @Militarycollector
    @Militarycollector Před 2 lety +2

    You make great videos Johnny,,, keep up the good work…
    ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
    👍👍

  • @baseballboyAJ
    @baseballboyAJ Před 2 lety +2

    Absolutely love these videos

  • @gavincross2902
    @gavincross2902 Před 10 měsíci

    30-40 mm pen. Holy crap. Great video.

  • @biffphuddle6581
    @biffphuddle6581 Před 6 měsíci +1

    Great video thanks. I think the 14.5mm round was also used in AAA weapons and as a machine gun round might have been used for APC armament. Maybe even in aircraft. Some post war tanks had AA machine guns mounted on the commander's cupola. We called it the Darth Vader machine gun in the US Army.

    • @biffphuddle6581
      @biffphuddle6581 Před 6 měsíci +1

      Ps... the weapon also came back in service during the current war in ukraine along with old maxim machine huns and other ww2 relics !

  • @lukaswilhelm9290
    @lukaswilhelm9290 Před rokem +1

    Soviet doctrine to counter advancing tanks during ww2 mainly relied upon artilery and their own tanks instead of man portable AT. The mass introduction of AT rifles was just Soviet want to compete with other powers who were also have it but as war progress infantry usually use AT granades and molotovs.

  • @jamesturner9651
    @jamesturner9651 Před 2 lety +7

    I remember learning about anti tank rifles and thinking how utterly absurd the concept was....

    • @Stripedbottom
      @Stripedbottom Před 2 lety +2

      Well, originally it was an expedient measure invented by the first people who had to face tanks in combat, ie. the Germans in WW1. And it wasn't their first method either, they first tried the K-bullet, which is nothing more than an ordinary rifle bullet inverted in the cartridge and fired from their normal service rifle; that increased the bullet's armour penetrating power at the cost of accuracy, range, and damage to the rifle, so in theory a large number of troops firing these in concert from point-blank range could have been lethal to the early British and French tanks. That concept left a lot to desire though so they simply up-scaled a normal Mauser rifle to fire a bullet heavy and fast enough that it could penetrate the thin armour of early tanks that were basically one single big fighting/engine compartment, so any spalling or penetration was potentially lethal to everyone and everything inside. And apparently, the concept worked well enough that they kept it on and improved on it and had an ATR in service at the start of WW2, as had many others who had followed and copied the concept, such as the British and the Poles.

    • @Stripedbottom
      @Stripedbottom Před 2 lety +3

      The most notable thing about the Soviet ATR's, however, is that they did not exist at all before the war. The German propaganda machinery had managed to fool the Soviets as to the capabilities of their armour to such an extent that they never seriously considered developing ATR's and had actually ceased to develop and produce any anti-tank weapons of less than 76.2mm calibre, thinking them worthless against modern German tanks. When Barbarossa started and they realized that the majority of the German armour was not only extremely vulnerable to their common 45mm AT but to ordinary ATR's as well, they hurriedly designed two in just a few weeks and had them rolling out from the production lines in numbers in the autumn of 1941, eventually producing hundreds of thousands.

    • @jamesturner9651
      @jamesturner9651 Před 2 lety

      Every time I make a comment people always gotta "Well ackchyually" me. I was looking at it in the lens of a kid in high school reading about a weapon that was older than my grandparents that's mostly defunct. Of course it was absurd and of course the people who made it thought it was useful.

    • @hannibalkills1214
      @hannibalkills1214 Před 2 lety +2

      @@jamesturner9651 He certainly means no disrespect, and not that he knew how much you know just from that comment alone.
      There's certainly snobbish people out there, but once in a while ya don't need to turn down some good knowledge.

    • @calmsoul772
      @calmsoul772 Před 2 lety +1

      @@Stripedbottom I think you mistaken the k bullet with reverse bullet, the k bullet have a steel core instead of the reverse bullet obvious name.

  • @Igzilee
    @Igzilee Před rokem +1

    5:11 that Tiger mockup is so incredibly crude lol

  • @nostradamusofgames5508
    @nostradamusofgames5508 Před 2 lety +1

    This gun is so much fun to use in Enlisted

  • @travisreed1730
    @travisreed1730 Před rokem +1

    7:29 I didn't know that Peter Parker's landlord Mr. Denisivich was in World War 2.

  • @carlorrman8769
    @carlorrman8769 Před 2 lety +3

    Great video mate. Is there anything that you don't cover, this was brilliant. Brave men, those ATR gunners.

  • @sovietreenactingandhistory1663

    Did a great job on this one!, but would have loved to hear you talk about the post war use of the PTRD-41 in Afghanistan

  • @tmatiu207
    @tmatiu207 Před 2 lety +3

    As a mythical demon once said: "Oh fuck. That's an anti tank rifle. OH FUCK!! THAT'S AN ANTI TANK RIFLE!!" 🤣🤣🤣

  • @itabiritomg
    @itabiritomg Před 2 lety +3

    Against a tank, your best shot with this kind of weapon is to hide and prey to god for they to do not see you .

  • @HerrWieland
    @HerrWieland Před rokem +1

    German native speaker here, it’s actually not pronounced [‘puntser-boosh] but more closely like [‘puntser-‘birk-say] as there is an Umlaut (ü) in there.
    Other pronunciations as suggested in other comments have distinct meanings for Germans, for example [‘puntser-book-say] would evoke the meaning of „armored socket“ (die Buchse) or [‘puntser-boosh] would sound like „armored bush“ (der Busch) to a German native speaker.
    And of course, thank you for this very informative video. ☺️

  • @al0haxd
    @al0haxd Před 8 měsíci +1

    0:29 Sokolovo is our flim from Czechoslovakia 🤗

  • @YourPalTheCommentor
    @YourPalTheCommentor Před rokem

    Some rumors says that two modified versions of ptrd was once used in a defense and wrecked panzer 3s in their frontal armor

  • @Shadow-lm8wy
    @Shadow-lm8wy Před 2 lety +1

    I think an interesting weapon of WW2 to cover would be the Suomi KP31

  • @Ealdorman_of_Mercia
    @Ealdorman_of_Mercia Před 10 měsíci

    Thank you for adding the title of the movies, other youtubers are just lazy and it is a pain in the butt to figure out the names.

  • @Fischbroetchen2k
    @Fischbroetchen2k Před rokem +1

    0:51 I am pretty sure that guy in the front wasn´t acting. The gun malfunctioned twice and then he had a hangfire and an interestingly large muzzle flash.

  • @RX552VBK
    @RX552VBK Před 2 lety +1

    Another great video, Johnny!

  • @m.streicher8286
    @m.streicher8286 Před rokem +1

    Maybe a shaped charge was better for killing tanks, but I'm sure the abundance of these weapons made life hell for light German vehicles.

  • @K-Nyne
    @K-Nyne Před 2 lety +1

    Watching your video and eeeing you use Video game footage many times, I'd like to advise you to use Men of War Assault squad 2 for details on weapons and vehicles. The game ahs an editor where you can place down your own units and with a few mods these are incredibly detailed. I think it would be some great footage for your descriptions :)

  • @jonash5320
    @jonash5320 Před rokem +1

    Anybody ducking when the artillery explodes near them be like:
    'Man that was a close one. Thank god for my cat ninja reflexes!'
    Me watching it in slow motion seeing the shell fragments fly 50m past their face before they even start to react:
    *side eye dog meme*

  • @Russinh0
    @Russinh0 Před 2 lety +1

    Some AT guns was Used as Ultra Long range Snipers and Antimaterial rifle due to its High Energy Cartidge

  • @gamer_jum3198
    @gamer_jum3198 Před 2 lety +1

    Cool video! I was thinking if you can make a video about the German 37mm cannon. Both on planes and AA batteries. Thanks!