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12.8 cm Flakzwilling 40/2 The 12.8 cm Flak 40 ordnance on a static dual mounting with a total weight of 26 tonnes, capable of firing 20 rounds per minute. Used mainly on flak towers. Production started in 1942 with 10 tandems produced, [6] another eight in 1943, [6] and in February 1945 a total of 34 were available. [7]
Flak tower during construction (1942) A 12.8 cm FlaK 40, the main guns of the Flak-towers, and its crew . After the RAF's raid on Berlin in 1940, Adolf Hitler ordered the construction of three massive flak towers to defend the capital from air attack. Each tower had a radar installation with a radar dish which could be retracted behind a thick ...
The KS-30 is a Soviet 130mm anti-aircraft gun that appeared in the early 1950s, [2] closely resembling the German wartime 12.8 cm FlaK 40 anti-aircraft gun. The KS-30 was used for the home defense forces of the USSR and some other Warsaw Pact countries.
The 12.8 cm Pak 44 ended up becoming the standard main armament for the Jagdtiger heavy tank destroyer and a tank gun variant was the planned main armament for many future super-heavy tank designs in development during the last months of World War II, including the fully turreted Panzerkampfwagen Maus and E-100, as the 12,8 cm KwK 44 L/55 main gun.
Automatkanon m/40 Sweden: World War II 20 Oerlikon 20 mm cannon Switzerland: Interwar / World War II / Cold War 20 2 Hispano-Suiza HS.404 France: World War II / Korean War 20 2 cm FlaK 30 Nazi Germany: World War II 20 2 cm FlaK 38 Nazi Germany: World War II 20 2 cm GebFlaK 38 Nazi Germany: World War II 20 Cannone-Mitragliera da 20/77 (Scotti)
The 12.8 cm SK C/34 was used on the Type 34, Type 36 and Type 36B destroyers as well as the sloop Grille, the training ship Bremse and the torpedo boats Leopard and Luchs. They were also intended for the unbuilt Type 38B destroyers, Type 40 torpedo-boats and the Type XI U-boats. These guns were either mounted on single hand worked MPLC/34 ...
• Cannone da 75/46 C.A. modello 34 (acquired from Italy) • 76 mm air defense gun M1938 (captured from Russia by Wehrmacht and redesignated Flak 38(r)) • 8.8 cm Flak 18/36/37/41 AT/AA gun • 85 mm air defense gun M1939 (52-K) (captured from Russia by Wehrmacht and redesignated 8.5 cm Flak 39(r)) • 10.5 cm FlaK 38 • 12.8 cm FlaK 40
The 7.5cm Pak 40 had an Artillery (FK) version planned that was seemingly cancelled too. Denniss 14:49, 14 October 2024 (UTC) Yeah, I agree with Denniss here. This seems to be referring to the 12.8 cm Pak 44 rather than the Flak 40. Going by the articles, only 51 Pak 44 were produced (a "meager quantity") compared to the 1,125 Flak 40s.