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The 12.8 cm FlaK 40, was a German World War II anti-aircraft built as the successor to the 88 mm gun. Although it never completely replaced the 88, it was one of the most effective heavy AA guns of its era. Like the 88, it was later adapted as a pure anti-tank gun as well, although used almost entirely as a tank gun. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 Ã— 597 pixel Image in higher resolution (1500 Ã— 1119 pixel, file size: 286 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): 12. ... Rheinmetall is a German defense company with factories in DÃ¼sseldorf and UnterlÃ¼ÃŸ. It has a long tradition of making guns and artillery pieces. ... Rheinmetall is a German defense company with factories in DÃ¼sseldorf and UnterlÃ¼ÃŸ. It has a long tradition of making guns and artillery pieces. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... The word calibre (British English) or caliber (American English) designates the interior diameter of a tube or the exterior diameter of a wire or rod. ... Look up breech in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... An early naval cannon design, allowing the gun to roll backwards a small distance when firing The recoil when firing a gun is the backward momentum of a gun, which is equal to the forward momentum of the bullet or shell, due to conservation of momentum. ... Hydropneumatic is the name given to a suspension system invented by CitroÃ«n and fitted to CitroÃ«n cars, as well as being adapted by other car manufacturers, notably Rolls-Royce, Mercedes-Benz and Peugeot. ... In ballistics, the elevation is the angle between the horizontal plane and the direction of the barrel of a gun, mortar or heavy artillery. ... A guns muzzle velocity is the speed at which the projectile leaves the muzzle of the gun. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki TÅjÅ Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... American troops man an anti-aircraft gun near the Algerian coastline in 1943 Anti-aircraft warfare, or air defense, is any method of engaging military aircraft in combat from the ground. ... German 8. ... Anti-tank, or simply AT, refers to any method of combating military armored fighting vehicles, notably tanks. ...

Development of the gun began in 1936, with the contract being awarded to Rheinmetall Borsig, the first prototype gun was delivered for testing in late 1937 and completed testing successfully. However the gun weighed nearly 12 tonnes in its firing position, with the result that its barrel had to be removed for transport. Limited service testing showed this was impractical, so in 1938 other solutions were considered. Rheinmetall is a German defense company with factories in DÃ¼sseldorf and UnterlÃ¼ÃŸ. It has a long tradition of making guns and artillery pieces. ...

The eventual solution was to simplify the firing platform, based on the assumption it would always be securely bolted into concrete. The total weight of the system reached 26.5 tonnes, making it practically impossible to tow cross-country.

In the end this mattered little, since by the time the gun entered production in 1942 the production of mobile guns larger than 105 mm was prohibited. In August of 1944, there were 450 such cannons available. As a result only a few were built and used, amongst other places, in the anti-aircraft Flak Towers protecting Berlin. Approximately 200 were mounted on railcars, providing limited mobility. Year 1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1942 calendar). ... 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... One of six Flak towers built during World War II in Vienna. ... Berlin is the capital city and one of the sixteen states of the Federal Republic of Germany. ...

The weapon could fire either a 57 pound high-explosive projectile or a 58.13 pound armor piercing capped projectile.

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