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{{Short description|Soviet anti-tank rifle}}
{{Infobox weapon
| name               = PTRD-41
| image              = ПТРД.jpg
| image_size         = 300
| caption            = PTRD-41 in service with the Ukrainian National Guard in 2014 
| origin             = [[Soviet Union]]
| type               = [[Anti-tank rifle]]
<!-- Type selection -->| is_ranged          = yes
<!-- Service history -->| service            = 1941–1960s ([[Soviet Union]])
| used_by            = See ''[[PTRD-41#Users|Users]]''
| wars               = [[World War II]]<br />[[Korean War]]<br />[[Chinese Civil War]]<br />[[Vietnam War]]<ref name="wwiiGerman">{{cite web |url=https://wwiiafterwwii.wordpress.com/2015/07/10/wwii-german-weapons-during-the-vietnam-war/ |title=WWII German weapons during the Vietnam War |date=10 July 2015 |website=wordpress.com |access-date=8 December 2017}}/</ref><br />[[Syrian Civil War]]<br />[[Russo-Ukrainian War]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPtMiY96cMg&t=1107s|title=- YouTube|website=[[YouTube]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.forgottenweapons.com/ptrd-in-ukraine/|title=PTRD in Ukraine|date=5 October 2014}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sovietarmorer.wordpress.com/2014/10/13/ptrs-41-and-ptrs-41-rifles-in-action-at-the-conflict-in-ukraine/|title = PTRS-41 and PTRD-41 rifles in action at the conflict in Ukraine|date = 13 October 2014}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://newrepublic.com/article/118837/huddling-bunker-ukrainian-rebels-aftermath-mh-17|title = Huddling with Ukrainian Rebels in a Bunker on the Front Lines|magazine = The New Republic|date = 24 July 2014|last1 = Sneider|first1 = Noah}}</ref>
| designer           = [[Vasily Degtyaryov]]
| design_date        = 1941
| manufacturer       = [[Degtyaryov plant]]
| production_date    = 1941–1945
| number             = ~450,000<ref>{{cite book|last1=Dunn|first1=Walter S. Jr.|title=The Soviet economy and the Red Army, 1930-1945|date=1995|publisher=Greenwood|location=Westport, Conn.|isbn=9780275948931|page=103|edition=1. publ.}}</ref>
| variants           = <!-- General specifications -->
| weight             = 17.3 kg (38.1 lbs)
| length             = 2,020 mm (79.5 in)
| part_length        = {{convert|1,350 |mm|in|abbr=on}}
| width              = 
| height             = 
| crew               = 2
<!-- Ranged weapon specifications -->| cartridge          = [[14.5×114mm]] (B-32, BS-41<ref name="Manual">Manual on Small Arms (NSD-42) Military Publishing House Moscow 1942</ref>)
| action             = Bolt-action
| rate               = Manual
| velocity           = {{convert|1,012|m/s|0|abbr=on}}
| range              = {{convert|300|m|abbr=on}} (on personnel targets, dispersion of bullets at {{convert|300|m|abbr=on}} is {{convert|0.36|m|abbr=on}}<ref name="Manual"/>)
| max_range          = {{convert|1000|m|abbr=on}}<ref name="Manual"/> (mainly with scope)
| feed               = Single-shot
| sights             = Front post, rear notch
}}
The '''PTRD-41 '''({{langx|ru|'''П'''ротиво'''т'''анковое однозарядное '''р'''ужьё образца 1941 года системы '''Д'''егтярёва|'''P'''rotivo'''t'''ankovoye odnozaryadnoye '''r'''uzhyo obraztsa 1941 goda sistemy '''D'''egtyaryova|translation=Anti-tank single-shot gun pattern 1941, Degtyaryov system}}) is an [[anti-tank rifle]] that was produced and used from 1941 by the Soviet [[Red Army]] during [[World War II]]. It is a single-shot weapon which fires the [[14.5×114 mm]] round, which was able to penetrate German tanks such as the [[Panzer III]] and early models of the [[Panzer IV]]. Although unable to penetrate the frontal armor of late-war German tanks, it could penetrate their thinner side and top armor at close ranges as well as thinly armored [[self-propelled gun]]s and [[half-track]]s.

== History ==
[[File:RIAN archive 4408 Armor piercers on the Kursk Bulge.jpg|left|thumb|Anti-tank riflemen with PTRD on the Kursk salient.]]
In 1939, during the [[Soviet invasion of Poland]], the USSR captured several hundred Polish [[Wz. 35 anti-tank rifle|kb ppanc wz. 35]] anti-tank rifles, which had proved effective against German tanks during the [[Invasion of Poland|September Campaign]]. A Russian engineer [[Vasily Degtyaryov]] copied its lock<ref>{{cite web | url=http://opisybroni.pl/karabin-przeciwpancerny-wz-35/ | title=Karabin przeciwpancerny wz. 35 | date=10 June 2020 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bGHt5lCGSg | title=Karabin przeciwpancerny wz. 35 "Ur" | website=[[YouTube]] }}</ref> and several features{{clarify|date=May 2023}} of the German [[Panzerbüchse#PzB 38|Panzerbüchse 38]] when hasty construction of an anti-tank rifle was ordered in July 1941.{{Citation needed|date=September 2011}}

The PTRD and the similar but [[semi-automatic firearm|semi-automatic]] [[PTRS-41]] were the only individual [[anti-tank]] weapons available to the Red Army in numbers upon [[Operation Barbarossa|the outbreak of the war]] with Germany. The 14.5&nbsp;mm armor-piercing bullet had a muzzle velocity of {{convert|1012|m/s|abbr=on}}. The {{convert|64|g|abbr=on}} bullet had a {{convert|39|g|abbr=on}} steel core and could penetrate around {{convert|30|mm|abbr=on}} of armor at {{convert|500|m|abbr=on}}, and {{convert|40|mm|abbr=on}} of armor at {{convert|100|m|abbr=on}}.<ref>{{citation |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091027135457/http://geocities.com/Augusta/8172/panzerfaust6.htm |url=http://geocities.com/Augusta/8172/panzerfaust6.htm |archive-date=2009-10-27 |work=Panzerfaust: WW II German Infantry Anti-Tank Weapons
|title=Page 6: Tank Rifles |date=1998}}</ref> During the initial invasion, and indeed throughout the war, most German tanks had side armor thinner than {{convert|40|mm|abbr=on}} ([[Panzer I]] and [[Panzer II]]: {{convert|13-20|mm|abbr=on}}, [[Panzer III]] and [[Panzer IV]] series: {{convert|30|mm|abbr=on}}, [[Panther tank|Panzer V Panther]] (combat debut mid-1943): {{convert|40-50|mm|abbr=on}}).

Guns captured by the Germans were given the designation '''14.5&nbsp;mm PzB 783(r)'''.<ref name="Chamberlain">{{Cite book|title=Anti-tank weapons|last1=Chamberlain|first1=Peter|date=1974|publisher=Arco Pub. Co|last2=Gander|first2= Terry|page=57|isbn=0668036079|location=New York|oclc=1299755}}</ref>
After World War II the PTRD was also used extensively by [[North Korea]]n and [[People's Republic of China|Chinese]] armed forces in the [[Korean War]]. During this war, William Brophy, a [[United States Army Ordnance Corps|US Army Ordnance]] officer, mounted a [[.50 BMG]] (12.7&nbsp;mm) barrel to a captured PTRD to examine the effectiveness of long-range shooting. Furthermore, the US also captured a number of PTRDs in the Vietnam War. The weapon proved effective out to {{convert|1800|m|abbr=on}}.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.remingtonmilitary.com/articles/DA%202005.03MH.pdf |title=Hard Target Interdiction |access-date=13 December 2008 |work=www.remingtonmilitary.com/ |publisher=Remington Arms |year=2005|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060320114129/http://www.remingtonmilitary.com/articles/DA%202005.03MH.pdf|archive-date=20 March 2006}}</ref>

== Users ==
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{{More citations needed section|date=March 2019}}

===Current===
[[File:PTRD rifle at Great Patriotic War museum in Smolensk.jpg|thumb|PTRD rifle at Great Patriotic War museum in Smolensk|alt=]]
[[File:Soviet soldiers with PTRD-41 defending Moscow.jpg|thumb|Soviet soldiers with PTRD-41 defending Moscow, 1942.]]

* {{RUS}}: Limited use in the [[Syrian civil war]]<ref name="ARES" />
**{{flag|Donetsk People's Republic}}:  Used by militiamen in 2014.<ref>{{cite book|date=2014|last2=Ferguson|first2=Jonathan|last1=Jenzen-Jones|first1=N.R.|title=Raising Red Flags: An Examination of Arms & Munitions in the Ongoing Conflict in Ukraine|publisher=[[Armament Research Services]] Pty. Ltd.|isbn=9780992462437|page=43|url=http://armamentresearch.com/Uploads/Research%20Report%20No.%203%20-%20Raising%20Red%20Flags.pdf}}</ref>
* {{UKR}}: Limited use in the [[war in Donbas]]<ref name="ARES">{{cite web |title=The Sniper Weapon Systems of Russian Forces in Syria |url=https://armamentresearch.com/the-sniper-weapon-systems-of-russian-forces-in-syria/ |website=The Hoplite |publisher=Armament Research Services (ARES) |access-date=25 April 2024 |date=6 August 2016}}</ref>

===Former===

* {{flag|Bulgaria}}: Equipped with 300 items (both PTRD & PTRS) by Soviet Union between 1944 and 1945, seen in combat operations.
* {{flag|China}}: Used by Communist rebels in the Chinese Civil War, later by the People's Volunteer Army during the Korean War.
* {{flag|Czechoslovakia}}: Used by 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps in the USSR.
* {{flagcountry|Nazi Germany}}: Captured and used by Wehrmacht under the title '''Panzerbüchse 783(r).'''<ref name="Chamberlain"/>
* {{flag|North Korea}}: Equipped by the USSR, saw extensive combat in Korean War against M24 light tanks.<ref name="WHN">{{cite web |url=https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/daily/wwii/wwii-weapons-the-ptrs-and-ptrd-russian-anti-tank-rifles/ |title=Warfare History Network » WWII Weapons: The PTRS and PTRD Russian Anti-Tank Rifles |website=warfarehistorynetwork.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170114004654/http://warfarehistorynetwork.com/daily/wwii/wwii-weapons-the-ptrs-and-ptrd-russian-anti-tank-rifles/ |archive-date=2017-01-14}}</ref>
* {{flagcountry|Polish People's Republic}}: Used by [[1st Tadeusz Kościuszko Infantry Division]] in 1943 then by other Polish divisions.
* {{flag|North Vietnam}}: In stockpile, used by Viet Cong in Vietnam War.<ref name="wwiiGerman"/>
* {{flag|USSR}}: Largely used in Eastern Front by the Red Army.<ref name="WHN"/>
{{Clear}}

==See also==
*[[List of Russian weaponry]]
*[[PTRS-41]]

== References ==
{{reflist}}
*{{cite book
  | last = Koll
  | first = Christian
  | title = Soviet Cannon - A Comprehensive Study of Soviet Arms and Ammunition in Calibres 12.7&nbsp;mm to 57&nbsp;mm
  | publisher = Koll
  | year = 2009
  | location = Austria
  | url = http://www.russianammo.org
  | isbn = 978-3-200-01445-9
  | page = 91  }}

== External links ==
{{Commons category|PTRD-41}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060217024335/http://www.rt66.com/~korteng/SmallArms/antitank.htm Russian 14.5 mm antitank rifle PTRD-1941]
*[http://www.antitank.co.uk/russian1.htm The PTRD 1941]

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[[Category:Anti-tank rifles of the Soviet Union]]
[[Category:World War II infantry weapons of the Soviet Union]]
[[Category:Degtyarev Plant products]]
[[Category:Weapons and ammunition introduced in 1941]]