Thursday, April 28, 2011

Museum Part 2: AT and AA - Artillery

Some days ago, I posted some pics of artillery shown at the Wehrtechnische Studiensammlung in Koblenz.
Today, I'd like to share some pictures of Antitankguns and Antiaircraft Artillery (and some stuff that belongs to it).

3,7cm Pak 35

5cm Pak 38

7,5cm Pak 40

8,8cm Pak 43/97

12,8cm Flak 40

12,8cm Flak 40

12,8cm Flak 40 Breach

12,8cm Flak 40 Breach

The legendary 88 and on the left, the russian equivalent

2cm Flak 38 Vierling

1,5cm Flak Drilling as seen on Sd. Kfz. 251/21

Some AAA I cannot identify

 3,7 cm Flak 43

35mm Gatling (for german federal army AA-Tank prototype)

3,7cm Flak Zwilling 43 with 2/3 of the armor missing

same again

US M16 12,7mm Quad-AA on Halftrack

same again

2cm Flak 38 Vierling on Mittlerer Zugkraftwagen 8 to

same


Same. Note the passage to the drivers Cabin

Same. Ammo-Rack

Same. Vehicle-front

Same. Look inside the drivers cabine

Same. Look inside the drivers cabine

A so called "Horchgerät" which was used to detect incoming bombers

Flak-Kommandorechner of 1940. This is a mechanical computer :)

same

same

same

Rangefinder

Various rangefinders

Cut-up Tank-Rangefinder

200cm Flakscheinwerfer with Generator. Note the V2(A4) Engine in the front!!!

This 2m wide "lamp" used 45000 Watts and reached 13-15 km far.  


I have some more Pics left to show you ;-)
See you next time!
Cheers, Mojo

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