#flak gun

[sweetmeatdale]

I hope I don’t get too much Flak for this but

*Allied bombing run

[cephalon-crow]

Drakgoon: Fling-it

[jinwylie]

Got bored.....

[howard-philips-wintermute]

A Romanian flak gun crew on the Eastern Front. WW2, 1943

[loosetangent-blog]

been playing hell-divers and i thoroughly enjoy the 20mm autocannon.... or flak gun as i call it. 

[solominiatures]

German 20mm Flakvierling 38. 1/48 scale Tamiya for Bolt Action. Another quick build. The four cannons normally fired in diagonally opposed pairs with the non-firing pair being reloaded while the other pair fired resulting in a firing rate of 800 rounds per minute. All four could also be fired at once in the event of an emergency producing a massive 1800 rounds per minute firing rate

[the-alt-historian]

British artillery gunners of the 15th (Irish) Horse Artillery pose with their Solothurn Panzerabwehrkanone 36, an effective anti-tank weapon developed by the Swiss imprint of Krupp-Rheinmetall. Impressed by its capabilities during trials in 1938, the British government ordered three hundred. Sir Oswald Mosely's victory in a 1940 by-election ensured that they soon became regular customers.

The photo here was taken in Palestine in 1944. The 15th were posted there as part of a (futile) attempt to keep the Jewish resistance supressed. Funnily enough, this gun later shows up in several photographs of the King David Artillery Regiment, the Haganah's only support weapons unit.