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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 ...
The Sd.Kfz. 10 (Sonderkraftfahrzeug – special motorized vehicle) was a German half-track that saw widespread use in World War II.Its main role was as a prime mover for small towed guns, such as the 2 cm Flak 30, the 7.5 cm leIG, or the 3.7 cm Pak 36 anti-tank gun.
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.
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 ]
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 gun was based on the German 2 cm Flak 30/38/Flakvierling. [1] It was driven by electric motors, obtaining its power from a generator trailer. [ 4 ] The Type 2 number was designated for the year the gun was accepted, 2602 in the Japanese imperial year calendar, or 1942 in the Gregorian calendar .
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