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Originally Posted by RightDeve
Or an official recommendation by Hitler that troops use artillery fires and grenades to break up the steel-hard ice, for digging foxholes.
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When Guderian heard of that recommendation in late 1941 somewhere in the eastern front, he felt like pointing out that the front line divisions had very limited number of artillery rounds available, and that those would be needed to counter possible enemy attacks, and thus could not be wasted on blowing holes on the frozen ground. And being at the end of extended supply chain, providing extra munitions was not trivial - keep in mind that the German logistics had not even been able to ship the winter clothes to the front lines in time.
As for funky AA-weapons, Germans also trialled with a man-portable AA rocket launcher called Fliegerfaust, launching a salvo of small rockets to the sky:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fliegerfaust
Not many were made - don't expect this to make an appearance in SPWW2!