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Defeating the Panzer-Stuka Menace: British Spigot Weapons of the Second World War

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Defeating the Panzer-Stuka Menace: British Spigot Weapons of the Second World War - Lister, David
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Weapons of myth and scandal, that is the best way to describe the spigot weapons deployed by the British in the Second World War. Unlike conventional mortars, a spigot mortar does not have a barrel through with the round is fired. Instead, the general concept involves a steel rod - the 'spigot' - onto which the bomb is placed before it is fired. This design was, as David Lister reveals, the basis of a number of successful weapons used during the Second World War. The myth of the PIAT man-portable anti-tank weapon is, for ...

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Defeating the Panzer-Stuka Menace: British Spigot Weapons of the Second World War 2021, Frontline Books, Barnsley

ISBN-13: 9781526787156

Hardcover