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''Karabin przeciwpancerny wzór 35'' (abbreviated "''kb ppanc wz. 35''"; "anti-tank rifle, model 35"), also ''UR'', was a Polish 7.9 mm anti-tank rifle used by the Polish Army during the Invasion of Poland of 1939. It was also known by its codename ''Uruguay'' (''kb Urugwaj'') (''kb Ur''), or by the name of its designer, Józef Maroszek. ==Secrecy and confusion== The weapon was initially a top secret of the Polish Army, and was also known by various codenames. Until mobilization in 1939, the combat-ready rifles were held in closed crates enigmatically marked: "Do not open! Surveillance equipment!" One of the rifle's cover names was ''Uruguay'' (Polish: ''Urugwaj'', hence ''Ur''), the country to which the "surveillance equipment" was supposedly being exported. After the fall of Poland, the German army captured large numbers of the ''kb ppanc wz.35'' and used it as "''Panzerbüchse 35 (polnisch)''" (abbreviated "''PzB 35(p)''"). The Italian army also benefited from the captured weapons and used it under its own designation as "''fucile controcarro 35(P)''." Both names translate roughly as "Anti-tank Rifle 35 (Polish)." In early 1940, one of the rifles, its stock and barrel sawed off, was smuggled out of Poland across the Tatra Mountains into Hungary for the Allies by Krystyna Skarbek and Polish fellow couriers. The rifle never saw service with the Allies, however, because the drawings and specifications had been destroyed by the Poles during the invasion of Poland; reverse engineering would have required too much time. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wz. 35 anti-tank rifle」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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