The PIAT (Anti-tank weapon)
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PIAT - stood for Projector, Infantry, Anti -Tank weapon and was the main British anti-tank weapon of World War Two.
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A yes the piat....or as my great grandfather called it, "the greatest weapon there ever was.... because it broke my shoulder In training ensuring I didn't actually have to go fight in the war and got me to meet My darling who was a nurse, lovely Girl she was, said I was like a pathetic broken puppy and couldn't bring her self to say no to my date invitation."
Oh god! Thats great!
That's brilliant, I hope it's true!
Now that's what I call fate.
Florence Nightingale Effect
that's some really good luck
ah yes, the *EXPLODING CROSSBOW*
Ah yes,the russian version named Pliat
explosive tip crossbow
the cross with no bow
The forbidden pop gun.
Hyper crossbow
“Let’s just aim the mortar straight at them”
-Some Bri'ish dude sippin whiskey and tea
Pretty much how grenade launchers came to exist 🤔
America-rocket
Germany-panzer
Britan-a nerf toy
pokeone that fires anti take explosives, your point is?
Burger Muncher
Imagine a Centurion with an upgraded spring firing explosive mega darts, or a Demolisher that fires explosive grenades
It's Nerf or nothing
It's Nerf or nothing 😂😂
Britain - cheap, simple and effective.
Doesn’t get enough love. The lack of backblast was huge. I’m sure the recoil sucked, but so did the recoil on antitank rifles. I’m sure it sucked to reload, but so did crossbows, and I’m sure soldiers of the Middle Ages who had to use them complained just as loudly.
A documentary I highly recommend is Jeremy Clarkson Victoria cross heroes. A documentary on the VC and some of its winners and who tends to win them. One story it focuses on is major Robert caine who was Clarkson's father in law. He was at Arnhem in 44 and he was using a piat against tiger tanks ( I think) he destroyed a couple tanks and on one occasion after firing a shot which did nothing. When the smoke cleared he was laying prone on the ground and took out the tracks. Like I say I highly recommend that documentary it's been years since I've watched it
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Ironic isn't it
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Pranubot I was making a pun
Another perk of the PIAT, it didn’t give your position away while firing.
Panzer: Goes rolling down the street PIAT: I’m about to end this man’s whole career
What is it like inside the tank any second you know you could die a slow and pain full death
this is PAIT. it can deal pain for panzer
2:53 the panzerfaust was a recoilless gun, not a rocket launcher
pippo spano I expected better from Simple history.. he confused the Panzerfaust with the Panzerschreck
He forgot to mention that you need to spam it while throwing your AT mines on the tank then throwing an Anti-Tank bundle grenade.
WW2 anti-tank weapons
America: rocket-propelled-missile launcher
Britain: really big grenade launcher
Germany: copies both Britain and America
Russia: hordes of conscripts
It was an incredible tank killer. Because of the extremely sophisticated shaped charge (similar to modern bunker busting cruise missiles) the PIAT was by far the most effect anti-tank weapon of its time, vastly more lethal than anything the Russians, Germans or Americans could field. What is more, it could (and often did) take out a Tiger Tank - something that was far beyond the ability of its rivals.
Kill ratio was excellent because most kills were scored from less than 25 meters and no back blast or muzzle flash so ideal for firing undetected. Sergeant Major Thornton at Pegasus Bridge turned back a column of German Panzer's with a PIAT. Major Robert Henry Cain, won a Victoria Cross for knocking out 6 tanks (4 of which were essentially invincible Tiger tanks) using a PIAT initially. As I remember it, he hid in shop doorways and stepped out to hit the Tigers from point blank as they drove by.
During the D Day landings the PIAT knocked out 7% of German tanks - compared to 6% for rockets fired by aircraft. The PIAT remained in service until Korea and was used effectively by the Israelis in the Arab war.
The Canadians ranked it as the best weapon with the Bren at a close second. Like many classic British weapons of the time (e.g. the STEN) they could be made in vast quantities cheaply so production could easily be scaled up and the PIAT didn't require any replacement parts due to wear from the blast.
So i am sitting here playing games on my Playstation while listening to this show and the internet cuts out on my phone and all i hear is : ''british were equiped with the boys''
'Me, the boys and the British infantry at 2AM looking for Germans.'
How about the welrod for the next video ? It sure has am interresting history
4 views, 50 likes, 4 comments. I didn’t know that four people could do that much ?
I only sore such raw strength once before.
Lol
"It was very cheap" 60 AMMUNITIONS, 60.
In Croatian province Dalmacija, PIAT means “plate”.
>Kangaroo with three PIAT teams and a Lieutenant in it approaches your COH base
German tanks: "Why do I hear boss music?"
Although unreliable PIAT had one advantage over other launchers no backblast thus allowing piat ambushes to be more effective as crew wont be detected as soon as first shot fired
But the real question is
*Can it beat the StuG life?*
@@supmodel so what? Leave em alone
@@samuel19085 again, so what? Also you can't say anything, you have a game character as your pfp
@@samuel19085 gamers are just toxic people. What are you? Some irrelevant guy or girl who names himself after a video game character on the internet because he has no original ideas, judging people he never met.
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*Круто!*
No one can defeat the
*stug life*
Fun fact.
There is a man called Robert Henry Cain who got the Victorian Cross during the Battle of Arnhem. Simplified he was Rambo but with a piat and used a mortar from the hip. He took out 7 tanks with 4 of them being tigers about multiple self-propelled weapons.
The PIAT also had another problem. The size and weight of the grenade gave it a very slow launch velocity and therefore even as the max range was around 100 meters, its effectice range was more around 40 meters which is rather close to a tank, especialy with such an unwieldy weapon.
Yeah, plus you needed to learn to adjust the angle of your shot when using it from higher vantage points. However during city fighting or ambush, a piat could be remarkably effective compared with some of their contemporaries. The fact it was cheap and easy to produce meant you could arm not only your own soldiers but resistance forces as well, air dropping in relatively decent anti-tank for the time. It’s success was largely for the same reason the sten gun saw use. Was it the best weapon of the war? No. Would it be better than fighting a tank with a bomb strapped to a bamboo pole? Yes.
2:58 I believe you mean panzerschreck, not panzerfaust
Fun fact thats not really known is that a large amount of these was also given to the yugoslav partizans and there it was actually really liked
Also mountable for the special car called the FIAT
FIAT with a PIAT
it was very effective against tanks but had very limited range. you had to get very close to your target. though one of our soldiers earned himself the VC by using a PIAT to destroy 2 Panthers
It’s funny how you used the Desmond doss character in the thumb nail
The irony
Between the others, Italian partisans had PIATs as well, for example 80 were dropped to them by allied bombers (12 Liberators) on 26 December 1944
Another Simple History Video.
By the way, another great video.
William: George, what anti tank rocket should we build?
George: rocket? You want a rocket? WHY NOT A MORTAR HEAT ROUND!
William: *god save the Queen*
If there is an anti-tank tank does it do self damage
thats called a tank destroyer pal and it doesn't do self damage
Can you do a video on The Mauser pistol because it was used alot in WW2 and had many changes so it would be a good video
Can you make a video over the lee enfield no4 mk 1?
The PIAT also had a much shorter effective range and especially point blank range than rocket launchers (only effective out to 100 yards and have to be lobbed that far whereas bazookas can fire directly and effectively out to 300). You really don’t want to be any closer to an enemy tank than you have to
300? Actual effective range was like 30. Didn't patton tell his soldiers to get extremely close with the bazooka to do damage lol.
Check out the Victoria cross story that Jeremy clarkson did. The guy who got the VC was firing it from the hip and loaded it himself. After seeing this that just makes it even more impressive!
You made a mistake with the reloading of the PIAT, once it is laoded it doesnt need setting up like for the first shot because the force of firing resets the spring and just needs a new shell loading
PIAT means Projector, Infantry, Anti Tank
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Compared to the Bazooka or Panzerfaust the PIAT is inferior to both. It has kinda low accuracy, is still more expensive to produce than the recoilless Panzerfaust, fire it from a standing or kneeling position without the usage of the monopod is almost impossible and the operation is clumsy.
The only real advantage is that you can fire it within confined spaces. But an Panzerfaust can also be fired easily from an window by leaning out and hitting the tanks weak top armour which results in a guaranteed kill.
The Panzerfaust is in my opinion the best hand held anti tank weapon of ww2. Simple and cheap to produce, easy to use, you can equip multiple soldiers in a group not dealing with additional ammunition and accuracy/range are sufficient enough to disable or kill a tank.
You forgot about Panzerschreck.İt was expensive like PIAT but it was also very good anti tank gun.
MemeLover the Panzerschreck is the German copy of the Bazooka. Much more capable with the the 88mm and 100mm Caliber. The US later improved their Bazooka to the so called Super Bazooka based on the experiences with the German Panzerschreck. These weapons were very deadly even against heavy tanks from the front.
Also used to kill enemy soldiers at close quarter range.
This is worse than the shotgun wtf
I enjoy reviewing history and talk about history and you gave me new information from the past so thanks for the information
3:25 kinda sounds like TF2 random crit
That’s what I thought, until I only got 12 damage on a tank on battlefield
Lieutenant Colonel Frost: 12 o'clock, THERE HERE CHAPS.
Them: * Gets up *
Major Allison Digby Tatham-Warter: YOUR LATE YOU LAZY BASTARDS ARE WE BUGGING YALL?
Lieutenant Colonel Frost: TAKE COVER! Bring up the PIAT!
PIAT team: * takes up their position *
PIAT guy: * fires to soon * BOAM *
The chaps: * open fires with Bren *
Leopard/Panther/Leopanther/: * Fires * BOAM *
Leopard/Panther/Leopanther/: * Fires MG *
Lieutenant Colonel Frost: C'MON C'MON!
The chaps: * open fires with Bren *
PIAT guy: * fires ahead of the tank * BOAM *
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3:48 The problem of just the initial cocking and ammo reliability? Didn't the PIAT also have the tendency of failing to recock the spring if it wasn't properly braced when firing, causing a failure to recock?
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This just makes Smokey Smith all the more badass.
Officer: How Much Do You Hate Panzers?
PIAT OPERATOR: Yes
There is also BLYAT, the anti-soviet weapon
I wonder if this design was the origin of RPG because of the shape of its projectile and its name “rocket propelled grenade” which is basically what piat shoots
Edit: “but not yet a rocket basically”
P.I.A.T. Point It At Tanks. (Just make sure, you're 5 feet away from your target)
always loving new uploads
Very interesting, Gives more background to the dud round I have.
I always liked the look of the PIAT I just looks strangely cool
I don't really know why, but the idea that a power would make a little warhead, and then fire it via spring power makes me giggle
Now, time for someone to design an Anti-Tank Pistol.
Ww2 was pretty much "Whats the best way to kill a lot of people, for like a nickle?" On all sides
A modified version or the piat used by the philippine army PIATOS
Srsly? Thats food
Tiny but mighty
America: Bazooka
Germany: Panzer Shriek/ Faust
Britain: A spring firing mortar that can remove the hands of its operator
America the one shot Bazooka from an exposed position and dead soldiers if they are behind it or as soon as it is fired and they come under heavy accurate machine gun fire.
Germany. Much the same problems.
Britain a simple cheap and effective weapon that can be used firing from well concealed positions and is a real tank killer.
Dear Simpel history team, could you please make a video about the WWII Operation Oak where a small unit of german paratroopers rescued Mussolini? This would be really interisting!
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Not to mention anyone cocking it standing are exposed for a long while
Tommy!!!!!!!!!!
Get the PIAT!!!!
I remember company of heroes, those british sappers with PIATs destroyed a StuG IV
Wonder how an RPG would fare in WWII
5:07 yes. thanks britan for helping our YEEToslavia. and for greece, france, Poland, Greece and i guess the USSR?
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I play Warthunder and its awesome, nice video by the way
how did the guy writing the subtitles misstype the piat every single time differently
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*Shoulder Surgery Not Included*
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I'm better off using a TNT pack over this in Day of Infamy. Medium to long range is a damn guesing game as to how high to aim to even touch the wanted area.
The PIAT looks kinda modern actually...
Please make a video about the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland
"Sir we need a anti tank weapon"
"MMMMMhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh" * Sips tea
"I know, Just grab this morter and use it verticaly"
Its a shoulder fired mortar.
You should do a video about Léo Major.
he did
@@malvinasArgentinas-y2t I wrote that comment 4 years ago. I know about the video because I wrote an email to simple history back in march 2019 to suggest the video and it was released in late 2019.
I can’t say PIAT, it always comes out as BLYAT
Tell us the history of the RPG( rocket repelled grenade)
i tought title said (anti vax weapon) instantly clicked XD
0:23 me and the bois rifle
Bruh, is it gonna start launching small Italian automobiles
Battlefield 5 players: **the expert**
Make a video about, the rpg. Rocket. Propelled. Grenade.
The panzerfaust was not a rocket. It was more a mortar like the PIAT.
More accurately, the Panzerfaust was a recoilless gun (which alleviates the recoil problem of the PIAT obviously but introduces backblast)
The Panzerschreck was the German AT rocket launcher.
*Gets kill with piat morter method*
**The person who I killed in BFV**
“OMG WE HAVE A AIMBOT HACKER!”
Fact : PIAT can be used as portable mortar
British weapons makers
"It works right?"
Sollys
"yeah"
BWM
"than why are you complaining"
Sollys
"It's uncomfortable"
BWM
"You taking the piss?"
Do the Gustav next
So basically a portable mortar
Put this on a armoured car as a third backup weapon
Yet in Battlefield V it can't even penetrate a tank. Much less a person.
At least this part is realistic. Piat was useless against heavy tanks, this weapon doesn't have long effective range
Piat
Russian version rocket
: Blyat
Can make video, partisan in WWII (Yugoslavia)
Day of defeat players..... THIS IS FOR YOOUUU!
PIAT- Anit tank slingshot