Tags: Weapon.
The Stielgranate 41 stick grenade was a German shaped charge fin-stabilized shell used with the 3.7 cm Pak 36 anti-tank gun to give it better anti-tank performance. The 3.7 cm PaK-36 was the standard anti-tank gun of the Wehrmacht in 1940. During the battle of France in 1940 it had had trouble dealing with thick armour of French and British tanks. In 1941 when Germany invaded the USSR the gun was next to useless when confronted with Russian T-34 or KV-series tanks.
