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2 unusual facts about Recoilless rifle


Recoilless rifle

The Washington State Department of Transportation uses a 105 mm recoilless rifle for avalanche control on Interstate 90.

Tupolev ANT-21

It was officially tested during July–December 1934, but was not accepted for service by the Soviet Air Force, as it now wanted fighters armed with heavy Recoilless rifles, and interest switched to the Tupolev ANT-29 derivative.


Comet tank

It involved replacing the turret with an open mounting with the Bofors 90 mm Pv-1110 recoilless rifle.

Jagdfaust

The Sondergerät SG 500 Jagdfaust was an experimental airborne anti-bomber recoilless rifle designed for use in the Me 163 Komet rocket plane by the German Luftwaffe during World War II.

Khmer National Navy

That same month at the Battle of Oudong, the MNK carried out its second large-scale amphibious assault, Operation ‘Castor 50’, during which another task-force of assault landing crafts was ferried up the Tonle Sap river to retake Oudong, the capital of Oudong Meanchey Province from the Khmer Rouge, who were waiting for them at the predicted landing site with B-40 rocket launchers and 75mm recoilless rifles.

M8 Greyhound

During the Congo Crisis, Indian peacekeepers with recoilless rifles destroyed at least one ex-Belgian Greyhound manned by Katangese separatists.

National Army of Democratic Kampuchea

The Chinese weaponry observed in the possession of NADK combatants included AK-47 assault rifles, RPD light machine guns, RPG launchers, recoilless rifles, and anti-personnel mines.

Ordnance, RCL, 3.45 in

The 3.45 inch RCL was an 88mm British recoilless weapon, designed by Sir Dennis Burney during the Second World War.


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