Dimitri Riabouchinsky recoilless gun - or maybe not?

[biscuitsAB]

While researching Leonid Kurchevski's series of RCL's I came across a reference to the above here: -

http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a023513.pdf

See page 30, top RH column. Googling the name brings up a lot of biographical details (he was big name in fluid dynamics) but nothing else. However, I found a US patent in his name for a 'Rocket gun'.

https://www.google.com/patents/US1661091?pg=PA3&dq=rocket+gun&hl=en&sa=X&ei=nA2zUb-bNMPJ0AWa4YGABg&ved=0CDgQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=rocket%20gun&f=false

An illustration on the Russian side of the Internet also suggests a rocket, that isn't an over calibre warhead by the way. Does anyone have anything to input on this?

 

[tround]

from DTIC

 

[biscuitsAB]

Thanks for that. To me it seems very similar in principle the Panzerfaust.

 

[tround]

Ironically yes.
Except for the shaped charge , the father of the panzerfaust is Russian .
Russian never commissioned this kind of weapons for their infantry.
Fortunately they captured enormous quantities of panzerfaust .
A weapon which will be very useful during the battle of Berlin for the two sides .
It 's dangerous to pass by the doors; the Frontovik takes its panzerfaust and makes a hole in the wall.

 

[biscuitsAB]

It was a sad loss to Ivan the Frontovik that the Riabouchinski & Kurchevski weapons were not developed further, the theory, if not the actuality, of shaped charges must have been known in Russia by the 1930's. Wasn't there also a bazooka like weapon tested before the war, 65 mm calibre the designers name beginning with B, I think?

 

[tround]

I did not know but the problem remains.
Why they did not produce a bazooka during WW2 ?