LAW 80
The LAW 80 is a reactive anti- tank rifle made in Great Britain for fighting armored vehicles at short distances.
The weapon consists of two tubes pushed into one another. After removing the protective caps from the pipe ends, the pipes are pulled apart. Now the shooter can use a rifle with five rounds of tracer ammunition to check whether he has aimed correctly. Then he fires the grenade. The percussion fuse should trigger up to an impact angle of 10 °.
If the grenade is not fired, the tubes can simply be pushed back into one another to transport the weapon. Reloading is not possible. The cost is said to be about 12% of the cost of a guided missile of the MILAN type .
history
In 1971 the British Army applied for a successor to the reactive anti-tank rifles Carl Gustaf (Sweden) and LAW 72 A1 (USA), which had been used up until then . It should still be an easy-to-use and light weapon. However, the penetration power should be higher.
In October 1977, the new weapon was started at Hunting Engineering Ltd. as UK LAW (United Kingdom Light Antitank Weapon). From 1982 the weapon was built by various companies and introduced to the British Army as LAW 80. The total order should have been over three million pieces.
Technical specifications
| caliber | 84 mm |
| v 0 | 300 m / s |
| length | |
| closed | 1000 mm |
| ready to fire | 1500 mm |
| Dimensions | |
| completely | 9.4 kg |
| grenade | 4 kg |
| Firing range | 500 m |
| Penetration performance | 600 mm RHA |
literature
- Günter Wollert, Reiner Lidschun, Wilfried Copenhagen : small arms . (1945-1985). In: Illustrated encyclopedia of rifles from around the world . 5th edition. tape 1 + 2 . Brandenburgisches Verlagshaus, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-89488-057-0 , weapons, p. 248-249 .
