Название: Dreaded threat the 8.8 cm Flak 18/36/37 in the anti-tank role
Автор: Thomas L. Jentz
Издательство: Panzer Tracts
ISBN: 0970840705
Год: 2001
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 56
Размер: 32,5 МБ
Язык: Английский
This is a splendid reference to the “88” in its ground role, with 54 pages covering all you could possibly want to know. Again, Tom has used the surviving records in the German archives to produce a really authoritative text.
The 15-page first section covers the development of the 8.8 cm Flak guns from 1928 onwards, with technical details, 6 pages of plans of the Flak 18 version, and some nice clear photographs. Then comes its use as a bunker-buster, covered in 9 pages and including 8 photographs of the self-propelled, armoured Flak 18 on 12-tonne halftrack SdKfz 8 (this is not the version coming soon from ABM as a conversion for the Tamiya Famo, that was only used in the anti-aircraft role and is covered in Panzer Tracts 12) as well as one of the armoured 8-tonne halftrack used as a towing vehicle. Here we get great detail of how the guns were to be used and which units got the SPs and the armoured tractors.