Bolt Action - British Infantry (Winter) 17 pdr Anti-Tank Gun Soviet Infantry Another major advantage of the

Another major advantage of the relatively simple design is the sheer number of tanks the Soviet tank factories could produce - by the summer of 1944 the Soviet war machine could produce more T-34/85s in a month than the Germans had Panther tanks in the whole of the Eastern Front

in the M5A1 version the lower hull casting was now up to 64mm thick in places

It was also used by the British Expeditionary Force (BEF)

with huge numbers of troops conscripted into a war they neither believed in nor understood

and used it extensively

Bolt Action - British Infantry (Winter) 17 pdr Anti-Tank Gun Soviet Infantry Another major advantage of thePut pay to enemy armour with the British 17 pdr! The QF 17 pdr was developed to overcome the more heavily armoured German tanks encountered by the British during the fighting in North Africa. A few hybrid 17 pdrs on 25 pdr carriages (called Pheasants) were sent in early 1943, though the final version was not deployed until later that year, making its combat debut in Italy. By the time of the campaign in Western Europe, it equipped the Royal Artillery