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===Anti-Tank Infantry Weapons=== * '''Boys Anti-Tank Rifle''': A five-shot bolt-action rifle that had been designed to penetrate tanks from the first World War, but had already become obsolete by the start of WWII. Still, it could punch holes in half-tracks and other light armor. * '''PIAT''': The PIAT was a unique AT weapon that was a spigot mortar that shot a shaped charge in an arc that would hit a tank on the lighter top armor of the vehicle. It had the secondary advantage of being an excellent house clearing weapon and unlike a rocket launcher, you could fire it from inside a house without burning your jimmies off with the backblast. While easier to build than the rocket weapons that would become the norm like Bazookas and quite popular among troops, it became rapidly outdated and was notoriously difficult to reload even to the point of causing injury, and to reliably hit a tank you had to get uncomfortably close and wait in ambush. It got ditched in favor of rockets in the fifties, specifically the M20 Super Bazooka. However, it was ubiquitous enough to be used by the Viet Minh and the French in Indochina and Israel had British surplus as well.
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