The Warsaw Pact arrived at the solution of maneuver warfare while massively increasing the number of anti-tank weapons. In the Soviet sphere of influence the legacy doctrine of operational maneuver was being theoretically examined to understand how a tank-led force could be used even with the threat of limited use of nuclear weapons on prospective European battlefields. In the NATO countries, little if any development took place on defining a doctrine of how to use armed forces without the use of tactical nuclear weapons. While previous technology had developed to protect the crews of armored vehicles from projectiles and from explosive damage, now the possibility of radiation arose. Through the Cold War, the United States, Soviet Union and other countries contemplated the possibility of nuclear warfare. A British 17-pounder anti-tank gun towed behind half-track in Italy, 1 September 1944 Both the Soviet Red Army and the German Army developed methods of combating tank-led offensives, including deployment of static anti-tank weapons embedded in in-depth defensive positions, protected by anti-tank obstacles and minefields, and supported by mobile anti-tank reserves and by ground-attack aircraft. Science and Technology tactics based around countering and immobilizing tanks A soldier preparing to fire the FGR-17 Viper, an American experimental one-man disposable antitank rocketĪnti-tank warfare evolved rapidly during World War II, leading to the inclusion of infantry-portable weapons such as the Bazooka, anti-tank combat engineering, specialized anti-tank aircraft and self-propelled anti-tank guns ( tank destroyers).
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