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Flak 30 in travel configuration, Seine-et-Oise, France, August 1944 Flak 30 on the Eastern Front. The original Flak 30 design was developed from the Solothurn ST-5 as a project for the Kriegsmarine, which produced the 2 cm C/30. The gun fired the "Long Solothurn", a 20 × 138 mm belted cartridge that had been developed for the ST-5 and was one ...
The 7.62 cm FlaK L/30 was a conversion of captured M1902's that were placed on high-angle mounts for the anti-aircraft role. Unlike the 7.7 cm FlaK L/35, which was bored out to fire German ammunition the 7.62 cm FlaK L/30 could fire Russian or German made ammunition. The reason why the M1902 was not converted was that the steel it was made from ...
2 cm FlaK 30 anti-aircraft gun; 2 cm Fliegerabwehrkanone 30 anti-aircraft gun; 2 cm Fliegerabwehrkanone 38 anti-aircraft gun; 20 mm C/30 World War II naval anti-aircraft gun; 3.7 cm SK C/30; 3.7 cm FlaK 43 anti-aircraft gun; 8.8 cm Flak 18/36/37/41 anti-aircraft gun; 10.5 cm FlaK 38 anti-aircraft gun; 12.8 cm Flak 40 anti-aircraft gun; Anti ...
The FlaK 38 saw widespread use on half-track trucks or tanks. By 1944, the Germans developed the Flak 103/38 automatic anti-aircraft gun, which is essentially a MK 103 cannon mounted atop a Flak 38 carriage. Closely matched in muzzle velocity and with a heavier projectile, in addition to higher rates of fire and being belt-fed, and smaller ...
2 cm Flak 30, Flak 38 and Flakvierling 38; 3 cm MK 303 Flak; 3.7 cm SockelFlak L/14.5; 20 mm modèle F2 gun; 20 mm Polsten; 25 mm Hotchkiss anti-aircraft gun; 30 mm Breda-Mauser; Type 2 cannon; 33mm A.P.X. 40CT cannon; Bofors 57 mm Naval Automatic Gun L/60; 76mm/L62 Allargato
The 3 cm MK 303 Flak and twin-mounted 3 cm MK 303 Flakzwilling (M44) were experimental 30 mm anti-aircraft guns developed in Nazi Germany. They fired the powerful 30x210mm round and only 222 were produced. [ 1 ]
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The SockelFlak started life as defensive armament for Zeppelin airships against fighter attack. However, once defenders discovered that airships filled with hydrogen were vulnerable to machine guns firing tracer ammunition Zeppelin losses mounted and the Germans switched to less vulnerable bomber aircraft.