Long and Longer
Posted by:
Eat Uranium
Hello and welcome back to another Forgotten Hope 2 update.
Today we are showing renders of a couple of old friends from Forgotten Hopethat we felt were of suitable quality to port across. They are of course the
PTRD and PTRS.

The Red Army in the 30s had made some aborted attempts at producing an anti-tank rifle, but no real progress was made before the Invasion of Poland in 1939. The Poles had in the Wz.35 a capable weapon that was used against the light German tanks to some effect. Following the fall of Poland, the Soviet Union captured a number of these rifles but did not make much use of them.
The shock of Operation Barbarossa provided the urge to restart development of an anti-tank rifle. Both Vasily Degtyaryov and Sergei Simonov provided a design that was accepted into production, with the first rifles reaching the front by the end of the year.

Degtyaryov's PTRD was the simpler of the two, and featured some elements of the Wz.35 and the Panzerbüchse 38. It was a single shot weapon, and unusually for a bolt action weapon was designed to automatically extract the spent case. The whole barrel recoiled into the stock, and the bolt was forced open by the protruding metal opposite the cheek rest. Simonov's PTRS used design elements from his SVT-38, and while longer and heavier than the PTRD, did have the advantage of a 5 shot magazine and semi-automatic action. It suffered from jams caused by fouling of the gas system and being generally more complex to manufacture, was eventually dropped in favour of the PTRD.

In action, the 14.5x114mm ammunition with the BS-41 tungsten cored bullet was capable of penetrating up to 40mm of armour at 100 metres. This was more than sufficient to deal with the Panzers of 1942, but by 1943 the level of armour protection was starting to increase. The rifles remained in use until the end of the war, seeing use against APCs and hardened firing positions. About 190,000 PTRD and 60,000 PTRS were made during the war, and ours were made for the original Forgotten Hope by
McGibs, with
Toddel updating them to FH2 standards.

IMAGE OF THE WEEK
Direct hit
Submitted by:
Leopardi

ptrd什么工作原理？

这么长一根捅菊花肯定爽

然而boys终于有同伴了

早晚有一天会出东线的。。。。

杰格加廖夫反坦克步枪，好东西苏联在对日的时候，千岛群岛吊打本子豆丁坦克

赞一个，看前苏联拍的卫国战争的影片就能看到这家伙的身影。

去年乌克兰内战还出现过

军阀

不错，MG42，还有坦克涂装希望好看点