PTRD-41 Anti-Tank Rifle - In The Movies

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

[@mangoz808]

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]

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]

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]

Actors would need king breaks after during that

[@thedandy6765]

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]

@@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]

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

[@JensTX]

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

[@alfredoelias4760]

Poggers

[@activatekruger446]

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

[@BeingFireRetardant]

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

[@WhattAreYouSaying]

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]

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.

[@davidngo4877]

A1

[@aymanayad7230]

Also it arms the btr-60,btr-70,btr-80 and the btr-152

[@AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg]

Anti Material Round.

[@leewaffe3]

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]

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]

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

[@klegdixal3529]

@@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]

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

[@bernardfrederic6535]

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]

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

[@bernardfrederic6535]

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

[@bragslvbm3870]

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

[@dimakapeev3156]

They still in use in Donbass as sniper rifles.

[@leo.r9253]

They are even used right now in ukraine

[@soviettankmen]

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

[@AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg]

It's got great kenetic energy

[@mathewkelly9968]

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]

Absolutely

[@Stripedbottom]

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

[@fritzbucher4726]

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

[@BHuang92]

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

[@Assassinus2]

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.

[@Assassinus2]

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]

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.

[@WhenDoesTheVideoActuallyStart]

self-ejecting rifle vs self-loading rifle "Semi-automatic" doesn't really mean anything, mechanically speaking.

[@HappiKarafuru]

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.

[@Dellindr]

@William Burns no modification needed. Watch here kzbin.info/www/bejne/m2PXoJyqmN-kock

[@hjorturerlend]

It's semi automatic in artillery terminology.

[@whyistheclocktickingsomuch]

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

[@hjorturerlend]

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

[@quigonjinn3567]

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]

Like mini hesh rounds

[@einundsiebenziger5488]

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

[@quigonjinn3567]

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

[@DVXDemetrivs]

Which one of them had chemical weapons ammunition?

[@stellarfox5869]

@@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

[@Graham-ce2yk]

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.

[@umbrum2]

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]

it still was technically no longer a AT gun

[@timthorson52]

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

[@suvorov_oleg]

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!'.

[@NoMoreCrumbs]

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

[@gryphon9507]

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.

[@novat9731]

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.

[@copter2000]

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

[@niichhe]

In RO2, it was the PTRS

[@CakeDispenser]

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

[@niichhe]

@@CakeDispenser precisely

[@judsongaiden9878]

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.

[@hanshuckderdritte4113]

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

[@amacheez3270]

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

[@saint_penrose512]

Ah, the return of the....

[@thekhoifish0146]

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

[@u.nforcesalx9892]

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

[@rismarck]

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

[@mackers4393]

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

[@hungryhedgehog4201]

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.

[@paczkmacik]

I love how you started including HLL moments

[@tomoegozen7645]

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.

[@Rybo-Senpai]

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.

[@rolfagten857]

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

[@lonewalker8268]

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.

[@arnijulian6241]

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

[@jamesbednar8625]

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]

Pavlov building if I remember

[@slaughterround643]

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

[@cameronnewton7053]

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 .

[@Piece-Of-Time]

Yeah, in Pavlov's House

[@TESL4T4NK]

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.

[@o.r.grinter7763]

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

[@dimasabiyoso2918]

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

[@Bennybarker08]

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

[@awes0men0b0dy9]

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

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

Mine too!

[@awes0men0b0dy9]

@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq porco Rosso and totoro are also really good

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

@@awes0men0b0dy9 I have Porco Rosso in my Lewis Gun video :)

[@awes0men0b0dy9]

@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq yea noice I just finished watching aliens 😀

[@nateb6883]

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.

[@KaisTheFireWarrior]

In CoD it's actually the PTRS

[@bobwasderty5016]

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

[@nursestoyland]

Why wasn’t it popular?

[@ittakir]

"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.

[@whocares435-z9v]

What was wrong with it?

[@ittakir]

@@whocares435-z9v For example, instead of dropping bombs German pilot decided to put out his ass and take a shit. To do a shit bomb. 🫢

[@Edgariki]

@@whocares435-z9v 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]

⁠@@whocares435-z9vyou’re saying that the films were so bad they warranted a sequel? Lol is Burnt by the Sun 1 good?

[@whocares435-z9v]

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

[@Hiihtopipa]

Unknown soldier is legit the best WW2 movie ever made.

[@al0haxd]

0:29 Sokolovo is our flim from Czechoslovakia 🤗

[@baseballboyAJ]

Absolutely love these videos

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

Thanks Austin!

[@baseballboyAJ]

@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq np

[@RandomPerson-ob1hk]

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

[@iowa_lot_to_travel9471]

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

[@foofooblenda734]

GREAT VIDEOS THANKS ALWAYS

[@prakashghumaliya2002]

Video is great sir Thank you

[@GenScinmore]

Cheaper than the tommy gun if I recall.

[@sheeplord4976]

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

[@GenScinmore]

@@sheeplord4976 truth xD

[@joe__1153]

thanks johnny, enjoyed that

[@cascadianrangers728]

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

[@HerrWieland]

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. ☺️

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

Sorry about that and thank you! I'm working on it =/

[@Lord.Kiltridge]

Dude. You watch way more movies than I do.

[@RX552VBK]

Another great video, Johnny!

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

Thank you kindly Gary

[@usarmy500]

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

[@gamelife2982]

Good to see Lupin on here!

[@jeremy28135]

Good video man 👍

[@austingode]

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

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

Thanks Rob 🙏

[@tizanikandothers]

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

[@herrtomkat92]

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.

[@peterkane9264]

Love the Western Spaghetti at the end! Yet another great video

[@biffphuddle6581]

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]

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

[@dediwahyudi7678]

Dmitri : Ivan here's a steel. go make me a rifle that can penetrate tanks. Ivan : Say no more.

[@Militarycollector]

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

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

Thanks brother!

[@RajaIsThatGuy]

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

[@Ealdorman_of_Mercia]

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.

[@jackcleary1873]

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

[@tmatiu207]

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

[@FP194]

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]

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

[@easternhistorian4763]

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

[@redactedagentdataexpunged9431]

Fun fact: the PTRD-41 was seen in Attack On Titan being used by Marley during the Battle of Shiganshina, seen being wielded by, namely Colt Grice (before he got cooked to Well Done by Falco) and Gabi Braun (who used said AT Rifle to decap Eren, kill Nile turned Titan and the Okapi Titan during the Battle Of Heaven And Earth)

[@geordiedog1749]

Hey JJ. Great effort. Sorry I’m a bit late as I’ve been on holiday (Mallorca) and internet is intermittent. I was very interested to hear that the ATRs were so much more successful than I thought. All I can add is that they were not ever used (for good reasons) as sniper rifles to my knowledge. They were designed to hit big things at intermediate ranges and not small things at long ranges. Keep up the excellent work, comrade.

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

Thanks brother. Hope it was a good holiday. Yes definitely not something I'd want to be sneaking around with as a sniper.

[@geordiedog1749]

@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq Why cheers. We”re enjoying the sun etc etc and there’s not too many other Brit tourists about yet which is a good thing! Yes, long guns are bloody heavy enough without having to hump a great big ATR around for endless miles. Plus ammo, bi pod cleaning kit. Everything bigger and heavier. No thanks.

[@eamonnclabby7067]

@@geordiedog1749 good for you sir..we managed a few days in the Lake district, and Middlesborough as a base for the North Yorkshire Moors and the best fish and chips in Robin Hood bay...

[@geordiedog1749]

@@eamonnclabby7067 I’d argue about the “best fish and chips” bit:)

[@eamonnclabby7067]

@@geordiedog1749 of course...we used to go to a cracking Fish and chips place in Parkgate here on the wirral ,until they started serving re fried chips...cardinal sin....I like the way in the Fish and chips shops we visited from Scarborough ,Saltburn and Redcar would take your order and cook it there and then....is that the case on the banks of the river Tyne..??

[@Siddingsby]

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.

[@yeager4298]

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

[@julesbenedictcatalan4904]

Of course, this gun made Eren pissed off

[@Symphinitystug_III]

2:23 what's the game again? I was gonna say that I played that game and shot the Wz.35 at tanks but one thing is that in the game...the AT rifle deals less damage to a person than a real rifle...

[@kunzilla]

I remember using this in Call of Duty: WWII.

[@carlorrman8769]

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

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

Thanks Carl much appreciated!

[@Gunbudder]

As others have mentioned, every movie showing the PTRD-41 does not show the self ejection feature because blank rounds used for filming don't have the energy to cycle the bolt open. in fact, the don't even have enough energy to move the barrel really at all. it gets more annoying though because authentic ammunition for the PTRD-41 is extremely rare. literally every single youtube video you can find of a vintage PTRD-41 firing is using hand loads that are quite light. the hottest load i've seen on youtube was maybe 70% power, and almost got the bolt open. i've read this is because no one wants to do a Kentucky Ballistics and blow themselves up putting that powerful of a round in that old of a chamber. It's pretty outrageous how powerful the full round is. there is old war footage of them firing, and its super violent. I always thought it was super cool that a bolt action rifle that size would have automatic ejection. i've never found a solid reason as to why that was done, just theories about how it would make the rifle easier or faster to use. i'm hoping someday someone will manufacture a modern PTRD and put some full powered rounds through it and film it in high speed. its never been done!

[@nostradamusofgames5508]

This gun is so much fun to use in Enlisted

[@nicholasgallo3599]

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

[@ifv2089]

_Almost the definition of a boom stick_

[@Girraffe_o_]

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

[@eamonnclabby7067]

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

[@lukaswilhelm9290]

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.

[@Bluehawk2008]

Aww, you didn't show the scene in "They Fought for their Country" where a PTRD shoots down a plane lol

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

I oddly have that exact scene in a different video lol

[@Una34Chan]

Just to make sure the anime name you placed is wrong. 1:00 "Sword Art Online 2012" should be "Sword Art Online Alternative Gun Gale Online".

[@jonash5320]

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*

[@vazeuax]

You're missing the essence of They fought for their country completely. It's not an antiwar piece, quite the opposite - it's a movie about the necessity to fight.

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

Those aren't mutually exclusive themes.

[@ComissarYarrick]

I find at rifles amusing for one reason. In 20's and 30's preety much all major armies experimented with them. Goal was obvious, and same for everyone - create man portable weapon system for infantry capable of knocking out tanks ( in that period fairly poorly armoured ), yet desings adopted were wildly diffrent. Poles went with full lead bullet Germans adopted their standard 7.92mm mauser round with steel core and *very* large propelant chagre for immense veliocity Finns and Japanese went with 20mm round needing rather big ( bearly man-portable ) gun And russian went with composite bullet ( 14.5x114mm. Cartrige so succesfull it's still in use today ), and later suplemented their droping efectivness by fielding A LOT of them.

[@bodyno3158]

Russians picked the best cartridge, and did everything to make PTRD as light as possible, reduced everything into a very angry metal tube.

[@dediwahyudi7678]

@@bodyno3158 Russians Dmitri : Ivan here's a wood and steel. go make me a submachine gun that can shoot 1200 RPM. Ivan : Say no more.

[@hjorturerlend]

Should be noted that the main reason the PTRD/PTRS remained effective is that 14.5mm could actually penetrate the side armor of most of the tanks they came up against, even at the end of war if they didn't have spaced armor skirts. All the other AT rifles became dead ends because they just didn't deliver enough penetration. They could do 25-28mm, but 14.5mm could do 35mm. 40mm with tungsten ammo. It just so happens that the side armor of a mid-war Panzer III/IV or Stug is 30mm...

[@gavincross2902]

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

[@aaronsnider6099]

This guy's trick on history 👌

[@wolf_7479]

Great video, I really like that you also watch some in the west lesser known war movies for these videos, one recommendation I would give is the five part movie series called "Liberation", it also features both PTRS and PTRD. One small nitpick for future videos: the "ch" in Panzerbüchse is pronounced like a "k" not "sch".

[@AndrejaKostic]

Well actually... The German CH on its own (not in sch, tsch, dsch) and when not at the beginning of a word, is pronounced like h as in "help".

[@wolf_7479]

@@AndrejaKostic Wat. You realise "ch" can sound different depending on the word right? In Panzerbüchse it's a "k" (technically "x" yes but for English speakers "k" is closer) while in the word Milch it's a "ç" and in the word Achse it's an "x".

[@BoraHorzaGobuchul]

I confirm, it should be pronounced [-bjukse], not [-bjush].

[@u.s.1974]

@@AndrejaKostic That is utter nonsense.

[@AndrejaKostic]

@@u.s.1974 You're gonna need a bit better bait than that.

[@harry2928]

Johnny hi it's me again- saying bravo bravo some more, on your superb choice of a nasty-good metal-killing straight-business weapon. always wanted to try out one of these on the engine block of some mean loud creepy people who harass my innocent defenseless friend. and a few other engine blocks of people of the same description. I'd have to then technically re-designate the unit to "anti-tank /anti-dirtbag rifle". --- would be a much better remote stand-off munition, and also much tidier & safer than a molotov cocktail. I'd like to see a semi-auto version of this with maybe just a 6 or 7 round magazine. Excellent video once again. Extremely Under-celebrated, unrecognized WWII weapon including the gutsy brave solo or 2-man crew. Thanks Johnny very satisfying very entertaining. 👏🏻 👌🏻

[@SandManOnTop]

Yes

[@SandManOnTop]

How did I get a heart from saying yes?

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

It's a positive word so I'll heart it

[@eamonnclabby7067]

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[@eamonnclabby7067]

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[@comrade-princesscelestia4907]

A fun fact is that the Germans had such issues with PTRDs killing Panthers, they designed an entire new version, the Panther II, which among other things had significantly thicker side armor, but then realized they could just put some Skirts on the regular Panthers and call it a day.

[@RedStarRogue]

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.

[@полный_песец]

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.

[@zepter00]

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

[@youngthaiarfssoldier8732]

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

[@zepter00]

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

[@iString5]

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

[@iString5]

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

[@milespatience9596]

It’s a beautiful anti tank rifle my favourite good video

[@salinagrrrl69]

OOOOOOKAAAY HE'S JOHNNY.....

[@jamesturner9651]

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

[@Stripedbottom]

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]

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]

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]

@@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]

@@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.

[@XMysticHerox]

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

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

yah pronunciation is often my weakness my apologies sir!