Soul power of 20mm rifle

The 20mm rifle is designed to shoot down light enemy armored vehicles with tremendous power.

The 20mm rifle known as the L39 is a form of anti-armored personal weapon, the gun was designed by Finland in 1939 and is nicknamed "Elephant hunting gun" when it has the ability to shoot through vehicles. light tank at that time.(Image source: Sina).

The purpose of this gun is not to damage the enemy's armor, light tanks, but its armor penetration is used as a way to destroy the crew in the vehicle.At a distance of less than 100 meters the gun can penetrate 30mm thick armor and still be able to "double" the 2 people sitting in the car if sitting upright.(Image source: Sina).

The power of the 20mm bullet when exiting the barrel.(Image source: Sina).

The huge size of the rifle is 20mm (on the right) when compared to the 12.7-caliber bullet on the left (left).(Image source: 9gag).

At the beginning of the Second World War, personal anti-tank guns were not yet developed so it was imperative to use personal anti-tank rifles and the simplest way to deal with armored vehicles. enemy.(Photo source: Pinterest).

Each country tries to produce its own different types of anti-tank rifles with a minimum size of 12.7 cups for up to 20 cups.(Image source: WW2zone).

However, these guns were too cumbersome, too heavy to take a lot of time to deploy and had no mobility on the battlefield, so they were easily defeated by the enemy's infantry.(Photo source: Funnyjunk).

Along with that, the rapid development of the tank when the armor increased to hundreds of millimeters made the guns become useless, and the introduction of grenade launchers, anti-guns Personal boost also put an end to this kind of large-barreled long rifle.(Image source: Militaryweapons).