Defeating the Panzer-Stuka Menace: British Spigot Weapons of the Second World War Lister David
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…
Specifikacia Defeating the Panzer-Stuka Menace: British Spigot Weapons of the Second World War Lister David
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 example, tied closely to British paratroopers struggling in the ruins of Arnhem with an inadequate design, one inferior to the German equivalent. Similarly, the myth of the Blacker Bombard is of a useless weapon, one of dubious quality, that was dumped on the unsuspecting Home Guard.In reality, neither scenario is the case. Both weapons were