Close combat armor

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Idealizing Vietnamese monument shows a fighter in the Indochina War with an anti-tank mine.

Close combat armor are makeshift and operational resources that are available for fighting down armored vehicles in the immediate vicinity of the object to be attacked without the aid of armor-piercing infantry weapons such as anti-tank guns , bazookas , anti- tank rifles, etc.

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Makeshift materials such as paint, cloths or mud that are attached to viewing slits or optics. This should have the effect that the tank crew is blocked from sight. There is also the more theoretical possibility, e.g. B. to clog the cannon and machine gun barrels protruding from the tank with iron bars in order to provoke gunshots.

Fire accelerators and incendiary agents, which can be prepared quickly and easily as so-called Molotov cocktails , are preferably ignited above the rear of the tank. The hope is that the burning liquid will run into the engine's ventilation slots and set it on fire, which can cause the tank to fail completely.

Inhibiting agents are hand grenades , concentrated charges or the like and are thrown at the tank from a distance in the hope of reducing or preventing its mobility by hitting the sensitive chain wheels. These were also thrown through the armored hatches, for which the attacker had to climb onto the tank.

Destructive means . The use of anti-tank mines or adhesive hollow charges , some of which are provided with magnets, can also be effectively attached to moving tanks, represents a direct attack on the tank. Hand grenades or concentrated charges are also used here. Placed in the design-related, externally accessible cavities of the tank (cannon barrel, exhaust system, gaps between turret and hull, or chassis), they cause sensitive damage up to the complete destruction of the tank.

In all of these attack variations with anti-tank weapons, however, it must be regarded as a prerequisite that enemy tanks are not protected by their own infantry troops. Since tanks are equipped with protective measures against this type of attack, a type of attack adapted to the respective model is also generally necessary.

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