Link – DIY Panzerfaust

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Well, crap….there’s another project I’m going to have to pencil in some time for.

The niche market for legally registered disposable anti-tank weapons may soon experience a well overdue boom with the introduction of a historically accurate Panzerfaust 60 copy you can make at home. Jonathan Wild started the project last year which will eventually culminate in a book detailing how to build one yourself from scratch.

Capable of firing over 100 yards, the warhead (in this case is a practice dummy) uses a propelling charge of Goex cannon black powder housed in a cardboard tube attached to the rear of the fins. Like the original Panzerfaust design, initiation is provided by means of a primer (in this case commercial muzzleloading primers) fitted into an external nipple that is struck via the sheet metal trigger mechanism. The launching tube is simply a length of commercially available steel tube onto which the trigger mechanism is welded.

The potential seems…interesting.

7 thoughts on “Link – DIY Panzerfaust”

  1. Totally off topic but did anyone see that Remington Arms has filed bankruptcy again?.

  2. I had the same thought with that Can Cannon AR upper, interesting possibilities.

    Matt

  3. The tricky part is a functional and effective AT warhead.

    Anyone with a modicum of savvy can get something from Point A to Point B.
    Creating a business end with any effectiveness is where it gets dicey.
    Screw that pooch, and you’re the rodeo clown waving his arms at guys 100m away, with 2-3 machineguns, and metric buttloads of ammo for them.

    Your odds are better with homemade thermite and napalm cans coming off a modified hobby drone. B/C the thinnest armor is on top. And unlike people, drones don’t scream when you shoot pieces off of them. šŸ˜‰

  5. If it’s black powder why does it have to be registered? May be with a with a live warhead but why with a practice dummy, after all cannons are not registered.

  6. Horizontal rocketry always looked more fun than straight-up-outta-sight rocketry.

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