Has anybody ever come across this before "Tankard" 1946 experimental recoiless AT gun firing a 2pr littlejohn proj from a necked down 6pr case? The reason i ask is i have the paperwork here and have been offered the trials cases.
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Tankard APDS recoiless rifle
- Thread starter gerrythebomb
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Sounds interesting.
Is it APDS (as in the title to the thread) or littlejohn (as in the text)?
Any photos?
Dave.
Hi Dave, i have had some time to read some of the paperwork now its an APDS round of 2" diameter using a core from the littlejohn round and a necked down 6pr case the ballistics report looks like it could knock a hole through 110mm of plate.
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Vollketten
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I'd be very interested to see the data for this round Gerry, sounds odd to mix APDS AND a Littlejohn