TT information company reported that the Swedish Ministry of Protection Peter Hultqvist saying, Sweden will present Ukraine with a further 5,000 Saab AT4 (Pansarskott m/86) disposable anti-tank launcher to Ukraine. In February 2022, Sweden had accredited the supply of navy tools and weapons to Ukraine together with 135,000 discipline rations, 5,000 helmets, 5,000 physique shields, and 5,000 anti-tank weapons. That makes for a complete of 16.000 AT4 from Sweden and U.S. to assist Ukraine cease the aggression. Presently, many European nations in addition to Canada and United States have already despatched thousands and thousands of {dollars} value of navy tools and weapons to Ukraine, after the invasion of Ukraine by the Russian armed forces.
The AT4 is a Swedish 84 mm (3.31 in) unguided, man-portable, single-shot, disposable, recoilless smoothbore anti-tank weapon constructed by Saab Bofors Dynamics (beforehand Bofors Anti-Armour Programs and earlier than that FFV Ordance). Saab has had appreciable gross sales success with the AT4, making it probably the most widespread gentle anti-tank weapons on the planet. The identify AT4 is a phrase play on the 84 mm caliber of the weapon, (84) ‘eighty 4’ being a homophone of ‘A-T-4’. The identify additionally doubles as an alpha-phonetic phrase play on the weapon’s position on account of “AT” being a standard navy abbreviation for “Anti-Tank”.
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The AT4 is meant to offer infantry items a way to destroy or disable armoured automobiles and fortifications, though it’s usually ineffective towards present trendy principal battle tanks (MBTs), particularly these with reactive armour. The identify was created for export functions because the nickname “eighty-four” already was a standard English nickname for the Carl Gustaf 8.4cm recoilless rifle after its caliber. The Swedish Military additionally acknowledged these enhancements and subsequently adopted the Americanized model of the AT4 because the Pansarskott m/86 (Pskott m/86), with the addition of a ahead folding hand grip to assist regular the AT4 when being aimed and fired.
The AT4 could also be thought-about a disposable, low-cost different to a Carl Gustaf 8.4cm recoilless rifle. The AT4 took a lot of its design options from the Carl Gustaf, which operates on the precept of a recoilless weapon, the place the ahead inertia of the projectile is balanced by the inertia of propellant gases ejecting from the rear of the barrel. However not like the Carl Gustaf, which makes use of a heavier and dearer metal tube with rifling, the disposable AT4 design vastly reduces manufacturing prices by utilizing a bolstered smoothbore fiberglass outer tube. This light-weight and skinny barrel and low stress, mixed with the virtually full lack of recoil.
