Special Offer Item! An Absolutely Exceptional Artefact of an Original German Ordnance of WW2. An Original German WWII PAK 36 Stielgranate 41 High Explosive Anti-Tank Stick Grenade

Bomb shaped Anti tank shell that fitted to the German Pak 36 Artillery Cannon, designed to penetrate up to 18cm of armour. Fully maker coded and waffenamt marked. Dated 1942, the last photos are of WW2 PAK 36's in combat with the attached Stielgranate over the barrels.

Although it is a most rare find, we have had one or two in the past 20 years. One of those we sold to the Army School of Ammunition, as they were lacking an original example, but, we never seen one before with almost 100% of all its original paint and stampings of maker marks, codes and dates intact and complete. This makes this example exceptionally rare, and in our opinion possibly the very best survivor of WW2 on the market in recent years.

The 3.7 cm PaK-36, was the standard anti-tank gun of the Wehrmacht in 1940. During the battle of France in 1940 it had trouble dealing with thick armour of French and British tanks. In 1941, when Germany invaded the USSR, the gun was next to useless when confronted with Russian T-34 or KV-series tanks. It was successively replaced by larger calibre weapons, like the 5 cm PaK 38, but
there were never enough of them, so it was decided to enhance the capability of the PaK 36 by providing it with new ammunition.

The design looked like a rifle grenade, only considerably larger. One part of its stem, a stick, was placed inside the gun barrel; the other part, a perforated tube, fitted around it. On the tube there were four stabilising fins. It was shot with a special blank cartridge at a velocity of 110 m/s (360 ft/s), which gave it maximum range of about 800 m (870 yd) (with gun elevation 25°) and around 180 m point blank range (gun elevation 5°)

It was equipped with two fuses: in the nose, for direct hits, and in the base, to ensure detonation if the target was only grazed. The large calibre of the HEAT warhead and shaped charge of 2.42 kg HE, enabled it to penetrate armour 180 mm thick, enough to defeat any World War II tank. The hit was equally dangerous at any distance, as the shaped-charge effect is not dependent on the velocity of the round at the point of impact. However, due to low velocity the grenade was not very accurate, so the effective range against tanks was around 300 m.

Another disadvantage of using Stielgranate was that the gun loader had to leave cover, go in front of the gun and place another grenade on the barrel.

Specifications
Weight as fired: 8.6 kg
Explosive content: TNT, 2.42 kg, shaped charge
Total length: 73.9 cm
Stem diameter: 37 mm
Warhead diameter: 160 mm
Fuses
base fuse Bd Z 5130 - Bodenzünder 5130
nose fuse AZ 5075 - Aufschlagzünder 5075 (identical with the one used for Panzerschreck rockets) or its improved variant AZ 5095 - Aufschlagzünder 5095

Photo not included for information only. Inert safe and empty, although not suitable to Export.

Approx 30 inches long

The last good example we know of, in a similar, but lesser, condition sold recently in America for $2995

Code: 24514