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Fully working Deepfire AT4 replica: AT4 Anti-Armour Launcher Firing Version
Full size working replica of the AT4. Functions, operates like the real thing.
The fire-through muzzle cover and rear seal are made up of soft
rubber Brand new. Includes: Box, operating instructions, carry sling, spare cocking lever, spare full set of decals. We ship internationally. Please ask for a shipping quote : sales@mg-props.co.uk
Deepfire V1
Rocket Shower: 38.85
GBP / 43.60 Euros Use these for firing the Rockets or
Vacuity balls :
Deepfire
Rockets Box Set (10pcs):
18.95 GBP / 21.25 Euros
10 Paper /Board Tube Rockets.
Deepfire
Vacuity Balls (12pcs):
7.95 GBP / 8.95 Euros
Impact exploding 57mm Vacuity Balls.
Fully working Deepfire AT4 replica: AT4 Anti-Armour Launcher Dummy Version
Full size working replica of the AT4. Functions, operates like the real thing.
The fire-through muzzle cover and rear seal are made up of soft
rubber Brand new. Includes: Box, operating instructions, carry sling, spare cocking lever, spare full set of decals. We ship internationally. Please ask for a shipping quote : sales@mg-props.co.uk
The AT-4 is a man-portable, disposable, single-use anti-tank weapon, developed by FFV (now SAAB-Bofors) in Sweden. The name of the weapon is a play on its 84 mm bore (AT-4 is pronounced as "Eighty-Four"), as well an indication of its role (AT for "anti-tank"). It was and remains one of the world's premier expendable infantry anti-tank weapons. It is also distinct from most other weapons in its class, being a recoilless gun rather than a rocket launcher, though many sources still mistakenly identify it as the latter. The AT-4 is also often assumed to simply be a disposable version of the Carl Gustav M2, but the only major attribute their ammunition shares is the same bore. All AT4 weapons are single shot and fully disposable. You simply aim, fire, destroy the target and discard the empty tube. Furthermore, the AT4 family has proven itself to be a highly reliable, robust and durable weapon system that has been extensively proven in combat. Its key characteristics include high target effect and hit probability – creating a high target kill probability for each fired weapon. The AT4 is an 84-mm unguided, portable, single-shot recoilless smoothbore weapon built in Sweden by Saab Bofors Dynamics. Saab has had considerable sales success with the AT4, making it one of the most common light ant-tank weapons in the world. The AT4 is intended to give infantry units a means to destroy or disable armoured vehicles and fortifications,although it is generally ineffective against current modern main battle tanks (MBT).The launcher and projectile are manufactured pre-packed and issued as a single unit of ammunition.
The AT-4's gun tube is long and cylindrical, with numerous external fixtures.
The muzzle is surrounded by a thick composite bracket, which in turn is
enveloped by an octagonal shock absorber; the venturi is flared, conical, and
has an octagonal shock absorber rim as well, though its visibly broader than the
muzzle. Numerous brackets are wrapped around the tube, making quick
identification by counting them relatively pointless. The shoulder pad on the
aft underside has a broad salient shape, and includes a folding wire-frame
shoulder rest with a short canvas strap; when extended, the shoulder rest
takes-on a delta shape. A long tube covered by a conformal housing (which
contains a cable used to fire the weapon) runs from the trigger mechanism to the
breech along the top of the tube. The front and rear sights are located on the
forward upper right side of the tube, underneath rectangular protective covers
which can be slid-away when the sights needs to be raised. A rectangular
foregrip is located just behind the muzzle on the underside of the weapon, and
is folded against the tube when not in use (some AT-4s were produced without a
foregrip). The firing mechanism, safety catch, and cocking lever are on top of
the tube in its midsection, just behind the rear sight cover. The AT-4 is
usually fitted with a sling, the swivels for which are located on the lower left
side between the sight covers, and on the very bottom of the tube just in front
of the venturi. Various stencilings and instructional decals are plastered onto
the tube. AT-4s may be painted in different colors or camouflage patterns, but
are usually solid olive drab in color.
The AT-4 projectile weighs 1.81 kg, and contains 453 g of Octol that force a thin copper charge liner into a jet-like penetrator upon detonation. This charge will penetrate up to 400 mm of RHAe at a 0-degree obliquity, but there is more to the lethality of the warhead than just its penetration. The AT-4 was the first anti-tank munition especially designed to employ enhanced lethality against armored vehicles, through what the manufacturer has termed "Beyond Armor Effects". Using a number of special attributes built into the warhead, the damage caused to the interior of a penetrated armored vehicle and its occupants are dramatically increased, resulting in a significantly greater probability of disabling an armored vehicle. These effects include an instantaneous overpressure of 1 bar above normal (twice the ambient air pressure of the Earth's atmosphere at sea level), greatly increased back-spalling and penetrator spatter, a flash of light over 100 times stronger than sunlight, greatly increased smoke from combustion of the warhead and armor during penetration, and more intense heat than that of a generic shaped charge of similar penetration. Exactly what components of the AT-4's warhead create the Beyond Armor Effects are still highly classified (though observers have noted that it probably has something to do with the charge liner's unusual trumpet-like shape, a focus ring around the front of the liner, or an additional layer of a special aluminum-based alloy bonded to the back of the liner), but as video footage and photographs of AT-4s hitting armored vehicles graphically demonstrate, they are not a marketing overstatement.
The AT-4 may be fired from a
standing, sitting, kneeling, or prone position, though prone firings are
typically forbidden during training. When firing from a prone position, the user
must lie at a 45-degree angle off the axis of fire, as being exposed to the
backblast at the venturi will result in severe injuries. |