Talk:PTRS-41

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In the Traveller science fiction roleplaying game universe, isn't the PTRS41 supposedly still in production centuries in the future, as a sniper weapon capable of being used against infantrymen in powered armor? It has been many years but I seem to recall that it was in the game material, and that there was even a military slang term for it mentioned: "the Crunch Gun." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.224.242.249 (talk) 23:16, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

How is that relevant? Koalorka (talk) 16:58, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Photos in the Anti-Aircraft Role

I came across a picture of a PTRD and PTRS being used in the anti-aircraft role. The caption notes the difficulty in actually performing such a feat. Another webpage has the same picture but in a JPG format. I assume the picture comes from old Soviet archives, so its copyright status may fit Wikipedia's requirements. --UnneededAplomb (talk) 21:21, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

Pop-Culture

IMO the popular culture section that was recently removed has some merit but may need revisions for bias.Mullhawk (talk) 14:09, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

The gun's appearance in the video game Call of Duty: World at War suggests its use was as a sniper rifle, as the gun is barely effective at all against tanks! Could the game designers just not think of another bolt-action rifle to use, or is there any shred of evidence to suggest it was used as a sniper rifle and not as an AT rifle? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.177.2.86 (talk) 19:58, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

CoD:WaW's engine is based off of the one used by Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. In CoD4, there's the Barret .50 cal rifle. To make things easier and to satisfy demands for a certain amount of weapons AND to satisfy the player base want for another big ass rifle they added the PTRS-41. Which, to my knowledge, is one of the few World War 2-era weapons to be similar to the Barret .50 cal. In CoD4, the Barret .50 cal is also used as a sniper rifle, which is not really its main purpose, which is also anti-material.

Short version: they wanted CoD:WaW to be similar to CoD4 and make the transition from modern weapons like MP5s and M4s to MP40s and StG44s easier for the player. SoulBrotherKab (talk) 08:32, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

You know, if you put a pop-culture section back in here, you shouldn't forget to mention that this gun was seen in the hands of Jigen Daisuke in the Lupin III movie The Castle of Cagliostro. —Robotech_Master (talk) 06:00, 9 February 2013 (UTC)

Schurtzen

The schurtzen or skirts used by the germans in the second world war were not typically fitted to defend against anti tank rifles as the plates were not hard enough to stop an antitank rifle. Schurtzen were primarily used to defend against shaped charges due to the spacing. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.211.233.62 (talk) 15:30, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Not so; it is well documented that schurzen were designed to counter Soviet AT rifles. The fact that they also might assist with defeating HEAT warheads was an unintended bonus, and a marginal one at that since very few Soviet weapons used a HEAT warhead and the spacing needs to be correct to have any effect. DMorpheus (talk) 15:33, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

In service

The article states the service period as 1941-Present, which seems quite unlikely. The "Present" part appeared in this edit by an IP: [1]. There is a possibility that this could be true, so I just added a citation template. — Marvin ^talk 16:12, 3 December 2011 (UTC)

Partner with Diegtiarev?

"Simonov and his partner Diegtiarev..." I wonder if collegue would be better. It doesnt seem they did worked together, they had each own construction bureau. Even if they surely knew each other, and probably had some informal cooperation. OR?/StefanZ, Sweden90.231.255.39 (talk) 07:29, 28 November 2020 (UTC)StefanZ

Name description

Just about all of the other about firearms articles on Wikipedia explain what the name stands for and phonetic pronunciation of it, shown along with an English translation of the name, but this article on the PTRS-41 lacks one. After a bit of research, it happens that "PTRS" stands for Protivo Tankovoe Ruhze Sistemy Simonova (Противотанковое ружье системы Симонова)in Russian, which is, in English, Simonov anti-tank gun system. Anyone mind putting this into the article, or is this unimportant/inaccurate? Thanks. --99.245.15.145 (talk) 23:15, 24 December 2011 (UTC)

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