War The Archive Collection: Armoured Missions- Anti-Tank Weapons- Tank Killers (2007) DVD
 
At the beginning of the Second World War the standard German anti-tank weapon was the little 37mm Pak 35 and 36, which could penetrate only 1 inch of sloped armour at 500 yards. By the end of the war the supreme tank destroyer was the Jagdtiger with an ability to penetrate 10 inches at 1000 yards. Land mines could also be used with devastating effect and took a heavy toll on the Sherman tanks whose floor plates were only a half-inch thick. During the Cold War, the Russians pitted the MIG-23 against the American F-4 Phantom and the high-speed Russian MIL-24 ground support helicopter against the agile German PAH-1. By the time of the Vietnam War, the McDonnell Douglas AH-64 Apache came into service and was still a vital element in the anti-tank missions during the Gulf War. The British contributed the vertical take-off Harrier which has proved itself an effective killer using smart bombs as recently as Kosovo.