This early anti-tank rifle was a highly serviceable design that saw Mauser production reach some 15,800 examples in all. The T-Gewehr was chambered to fire the 13.2mm TuF ("Tank und Flieger") cartridge from a manual-bolt operation. 18) anti-tank rifle by Mauser in 1918 - essentially the world's first anti-tank rifle, purposely designed to defeat enemy armor by disabling the engine, key components or crew within. This led to the development and subsequent production of the "T-Gewehr" (Mauser 13.2mm Tank Abwehr Gewehr Mod. While attempting to develop their own tank systems (the repulsive 30-ton A7V comes to mind), the Germans also realized a need to counter the British and French tank deployments with a dedicated, man-portable anti-armor weapon system. The first tank-versus-tank battle took place between British and German tanks but this proved indecisive - though a foreshadowing of things to come in World War 2. The appearance of these tracked armored systems, coupled with similar advancements being made by the French, forced the hand of the Germans in response. In World War 1, the British became the first nation to field the tank in a tactical battlefield fashion - specifically to break the stalemates of trench warfare plaguing Europe. Development of better alternatives did not stop with the PzB 39 but no other notable anti-tank rifle systems emerged from prototype stages before the end of the war.
Despite the PzB 39s promising start, the evolution of better armor protection on Allied tanks rendered the German PzB 39 system obsolete against all but the lightest armored vehicles.
The type was developed from a World War 1 design that was originally fielded by German troops to counter a new British weapon known as a "tank" (then known officially as "landships"). The Panzerbuchse 39 (PzB 39) was a short-lived anti-tank rifle utilized by the German Army in World War 2.
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