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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 ...
Flak, intense criticism, a metaphor derived from intense anti-aircraft gunfire "Flak", a class of the Propaganda model advanced by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky Flak, "flat land" or "flat sandbank", a component of Germanic language area place names, e.g. Flakfortet
2 cm Flak 30, Flak 38 and Flakvierling 38; 3-inch/50-caliber gun; 3-inch/70-caliber Mark 26 gun; 3 cm MK 303 Flak; 3-inch anti-aircraft gun M3; 3.7 cm Flak 18/36/37; 3.7 cm Flak 43; 3.7 cm Flak M42; 3.7 cm SK C/30; 5 cm Flak 41; 7.5 cm Flak. L/60; 7.5 cm kanon PL vz. 37; 7.5 cm L/45 M/16 anti aircraft gun; 7.5 cm L/45 M/32 anti aircraft gun; 7. ...
This page contains a list of equipment used the German military of World War II.Germany used a number of type designations for their weapons. In some cases, the type designation and series number (i.e. FlaK 30) are sufficient to identify a system, but occasionally multiple systems of the same type are developed at the same time and share a partial designation.
English. Read; Edit; View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. Actions Read; Edit; ... 2 cm Flak 30, Flak 38 and Flakvierling 38; 3 cm MK 303 Flak; 3.7 cm ...
The name of the gun applies to a series of related guns, the first one officially called the 8.8 cm Flak 18, the improved 8.8 cm Flak 36, and later the 8.8 cm Flak 37. [ N 2 ] Flak is a contraction of German Flugabwehrkanone (also referred to as Fliegerabwehrkanone ) [ 11 ] [ N 3 ] meaning "aircraft-defense cannon", the original purpose of the ...
The Solothurn ST-5 is a 20 mm anti-aircraft gun designed by Waffenfabrik Solothurn in Switzerland which ultimately was the design basis for the highly successful 2 cm Flak 30 series of guns used by Germany in World War II. Solothurn was owned by the German firm Rheinmetall, which at the time was prohibited from developing certain weapons.