7.92×107mm DS
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7.92×107mm DS | ||||||||
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Type | Anti-tank rifle | |||||||
Place of origin | Poland | |||||||
Production history | ||||||||
Designer | Lt. Colonel Tadeusz Felsztyn | |||||||
Designed | 1931 | |||||||
Specifications | ||||||||
Parent case | 7.92×57mm Mauser | |||||||
Case type | Rimless, bottleneck | |||||||
Bullet diameter | 8.18 mm (0.322 in) | |||||||
Neck diameter | 9.23 mm (0.363 in) | |||||||
Shoulder diameter | 13.15 mm (0.518 in) | |||||||
Base diameter | 16.39 mm (0.645 in) | |||||||
Rim diameter | 16.36 mm (0.644 in) | |||||||
Case length | 107.18 mm (4.220 in) | |||||||
Overall length | 132 mm (5.2 in) | |||||||
Ballistic performance | ||||||||
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The 7.92×107mm DS was a Polish 7.92 mm
History
In the late 1920s, the Polish General Staff started the development of a light anti-tank weapon for the Polish infantry. In 1931, Lt. Colonel Tadeusz Felsztyn from the Institute of Armament Technology in Warsaw started the first tests of various low-calibre cartridges. After the tests of German-made Hagler bullets proved the possibilities of such ammunition in perforation of steel plates, the National Ammunition Factory in Skarżysko-Kamienna was ordered to develop its own 7.92 mm cartridge with a muzzle velocity of over 1,000 m/s (3,300 ft/s). After a series of tests, a new DS cartridge was proposed.
The DS ammunition was based on a standard 7.92 mm cartridge used by both the Mauser rifles and the Polish
See also
- Karabin przeciwpancerny wz.35
- Table of handgun and rifle cartridges
Notes
References
- Zbigniew Gwóźdź, Piotr Zarzycki (1993). Polskie konstrukcje broni strzeleckiej (in Polish). SIGMA NOT. ISBN 978-83-85001-69-0.
- Aleksander Smoliński (1992). "Wybrane problemy z historii karabinu przeciwpancernego wz. 35". MWP Bulletin (in Polish).
- Jerzy Sadowski (1995). "Karabin przeciwpancerny wz.35 w fortyfikacjach II RP". Nowa Technika Wojskowa (in Polish). 11.
- Tadeusz Nowakowski (1995). "Karabin przeciwpancerny wz. 35". Nowa Technika Wojskowa (in Polish). 6.