aa gun

What‘s that weapon?

Hello there, I was browsing navweapons and came across a design mentioned in passing within the article about the Japanese 100/65. Apparently, there was an experimental 140/80 gun tested in 1933. I was hoping someone here had more information on the gun.

CONTENTS GUNS Ikaria MG FF (20-mm) Mauser MG 151 Series (15/20-mm) Rheinmetall-Borsig MK 103 (30-mm) Rheinmetall-Borsig MK 108 (30-mm) Mauser MG 81 (7.92-mm) Rheinmetall-Borsig MG 131 (13-mm) Mauser MG/MK 213 C Rheinmetall-Borsig BK 3.7 (37-mm) Rheinmetall-Borsig BK 5 (50-mm) Mauser...

In the late-war period a battery of the ill-fated 5cm FlaK 41 was directed by a remote controlled system, overcoming it`s manual traverse problems and testing what would be the Gerät 58 5,5cm control system. Does anyone know about this development?

When browsing Vickers Tyne & Wear Archive I noticed a really intersting and obscure design proposal. Not only by the strangely long barrel, sci-fi look turret (this is a 1946 drawing), but also the insane stats and unique operating mechanism. I also cannot find any information of this proposal...

I have various images of naval gun projects. I'll add them here as I scan them. Unless here is moved to a somewhere else. :) RP1

Thought we could start a thread on Hispano-Suiza gun projects. Some examples (please fill in): HS.7 (20x110) HS.9 (20x110) HS.404 (20x110) HS.406 (23x122) HS.407 (23x122) HS.408 (25 mm caliber) HS.410 (30 mm caliber) HS.603 (30x158) HS.604 (30x158) HS.606/30 (30x158) HS.606/37 (37x158B) HS.804...

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%A9%A6%E8%A3%BD%E5%AF%BE%E7%A9%BA%E6%88%A6%E8%BB%8A_%E3%82%BF%E3%83%8F I found some information here on Wikipedia, and received some information on how it may have looked on another thread...

Can anyone identify this type of gun emplacement...

I wish to collect, gather and discuss (But more importantly collect) the various naval gun projects the Soviet Union created, abandoned or wished to create. Here I list them what I've gathered so far according to type, feel free to comment, provide info and I will edit them in. Capital ship...

I was looking for the history of the anti-aircraft guns of the US Army since 1918 but then stumbled upon an AA gun that I never heard of before. A little effort to find some information was done, but it's surprisingly quite scarce. 4.7-inch Mobile Gun, M1920E The gun was supposed to be the...

Hello all; I recently got my hands on a Storia Militare 'Dossier', the first part of a series covering the Italian navy from 1945 to 2015 (first part being from 1945 to 1970, issue no.14, Sept-Oct 2014) by Michele Cosentino and Maurizio Brescia. Within the SM 'Dossier' there is mentioned, in...

I am currently researching the history of automatic cannon and their ammunition and would appreciate some help with an obscure German naval AA gun: the 3,7 cm Flak SK C/36. I have put down my thoughts on this almost unknown project as follows: The evidence in favour of its existence is as...

Japanese Wikipedia entry on Akizuki class DD stated that IJN started in 1936 to study dedicated AA vessels following the example of Dido class. They contemplated anything from a 1000 ton torpedo boat armed with a single 10 cm or 12.7 cm AA gun to a quite large cruiser equipped with 12 double...

It was planned to fit the Iowa class with the 3"/50 but this was abandoned post-war. I once saw online a line drawing that showed the planned layout, it wasn't a straight swap for the quad 40mm mounts due to weight concerns but I have seen one book that states that 15 mounts were planned. Does...

I`ve uncovered this image from a 1946 soviet report on german radar. It relates to the "Rettin-M" AA radar, installed in a Flakvierling. It was one of the few ( the only? ) on-carriage AA radar tried by Germany in WW2. There are evidence of a "Rettin-L", which I assume to mean "Land". Therefore...

Looking for information on the twin 6 pdr coastal defence (also a warship's weapon) gun (http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNBR_6pounder_10cwt_m1.htm) I found elsewhere on the Internet a cut-out from Ian V. Hogg's books "Anti-Aircraft Artillery" (attached below). The author mentions there that the...

This is Red Queen, re the website in RP1's post. should it be a new thread? These pics are I suppose the mock up. I have seen another photo of Red Queen, I think in Ian Hogg's book on AA artillery.