A simple sight was fitted and this device was named Panzerfaust 30, the figure indicating the fighting range in meters. The bomb was given thin sheet steel fins which wrapped around the tail shaft while the bomb lay in the tube the warhead was of much greater diameter than the tube. Since the addition of sights meant that it had to be brought closer to the firer, the tube was extended in length so that the flash was directed behind the holder. Mechanically it was successful, but as a weapon it was of little use since it had no sights nor indeed any provision for aiming it. This launched the bomb forward, while the rearward blast from the other end of the tube balanced the recoil.
This device was grasped and held at arms length, and a trigger fired the gunpowder charge.
Langweiler produced a simple recoil-less device called the Faustpatrone, which consisted of a 14-in tube carrying a small gunpowder charge in its center and with a hollow charge bomb in one end.
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