88 mm. Flak Gun - 1936-45

   Undoubtedly, the 88th mm. Flak machine gun can be considered the most famous sample of small arms in Germany during the Second World War. By a strange coincidence, weapons designed for anti-aircraft defense, for some reason, proved to be the most effective against tanks. However, it also performed its first role - and quite successfully. "Eighty-eighth" (as the soldiers themselves were often called) entered service in the army in 1932. It was developed in the late twenties under the strictest secrecy by a group of mechanical engineers and technicians at the largest German military enterprise of that period, the Krupp company (competing with Swedish Bofos companies for military orders). Then, in the era of brutal crises within the country, very few people understood what multi-purpose weapons went to Germany. In all military units of the Wehrmacht, it was used very widely and in various modifications. Although the Allied forces had similar counterparts (the British 3.7-inch anti-yen gun, the French 90 mm gun and the 90-mm US-made anti-aircraft gun), none of them could surpass the eighty-eighth in combat qualities. Its predecessor was the 8.8 cm Flac Cannon, invented by the same Krupp and his partner Earnhard (who later created Meinmetal).
Name: 88 mm. Flak Gun - 1936-45
Posted by: john norris
Pages: 50
Format: PDF
Size: 17 mb.
Quality: Excellent
English language
Year of publication: 2008