10.5 cm Flak 38

German anti-aircraft gun 2 cm Flak 30, Flak 38 and Flakvierling 38 10.5 cm Flak 38 Bundesarchiv Bild 101I-621-2942-17, Schwere Flak einer Küstenbatterie.jpg 300 A Flak 38 105 mm anti-aircraft gun at a coastal battery, 1942 Nazi Germany Anti-aircraft gun yes yes 1937–62 Nazi Germany (1937-45), French Navy (1953-62) World War II Rheinmetall 1933 Rheinmetall 1936–45 Approx 4,200 Flak 39 10,224 kg (22,540 lbs) 6.648 m ftin on 1 5.547 m ftin on 1 L/52.8 2.4 m ftin on 2.9 m ftin on 10 105 × 769 mm. R 15.1 kg lboz on 105 mm (4.13 in) One, 36 grooves with right-hand increasing twist from 1/48 to 1/36 15–18 rounds per minute 881 m/s (2,890 ft/s) 17,600 m (19,247 yds) ground target9,450 m (31,003 ft) effective ceiling 11,400 m (37,401 ft) maximum ceilingAnti-aircraft guns Chamberlain Peter 1975 23 Arco Pub. Co Gander, Terry 0668038187 New York 2000222 Horizontal semi-automatic sliding-block Hydro-pneumatic -3° to +85° 360° The 10.5 cm Flak 38 was a German anti-aircraft gun used during World War II by the Luftwaffe. An improved version was introduced as the 10.5 cm Flak 39.Bishop, Chris. The encyclopedia of weapons of world War II. Sterling Publishing Company, Inc., 2002, p.153 Development Land version The Flak 38 was introduced as a competitor to the 8.8 cm Flak 18. In this role it proved to be too heavy for field use while having roughly similar performance as the 88 mm, therefore it was used primarily in static mounts. The Flak 39 was an improved version, which replaced the electrical gun laying system with a mechanical one. Naval version The 10.5 cm SK C/33SK - Schnelladekanone (quick loading cannon); C - Construktionsjahr (year of design) was used by the Kriegsmarine, the German Navy. Related to the Flak 38, it was installed on the Bismarck battleship 5 and Scharnhorst battleship 5 classes of battleships as well as the Deutschland cruiser 5- and Admiral Hipper cruiser 0 cruisers. After the war, it was used for a few years by the French Marine Nationale on the reconstructed ex-Italian light cruisers, French cruiser Châteaurenault D 606 2Le Châteaurenault sur le site alabordache.fr and French cruiser Guichen D 607 2.Le Guichen sur le site alabordache.fr In the late 1940s, the French also planned to equip the battleship Richelieu with twelve of these mountings, but the project was cancelled due to credit shortage. They were mounted in pairs on an electrically powered tri-axial mounting, intended to compensate for the motion of the ship and maintain a lock onto the intended target. The mounting was not properly waterproofed and as the mountings were open to the weather and sea swell, this resulted in a high maintenance burden. Gallery References Note References 10.5 cm Flak 38, 39: Multi-Purpose Gun https://web.archive.org/web/20101023104911/http://www.lonesentry.com/ordnance/10-5-cm-flak-38-39-multi-purpose-gun.html 2010-10-23 German 10.5 cm/65 (4.1") SK C/33 Gander Terry Chamberlain, Peter Weapons of the Third Reich: An Encyclopedic Survey of All Small Arms, Artillery and Special Weapons of the German Land Forces 1939–1945 Doubleday New York 1979 0-385-15090-3 Hogg Ian V. German Artillery of World War Two Stackpole Books Mechanicsville, PA 1997 2nd corrected 1-85367-480-X External links Category:Anti-aircraft guns of Germany Category:World War II anti-aircraft guns Category:World War II artillery of Germany Category:105 mm artillery Category:Rheinmetall Category:Military equipment introduced in the 1930s