List of anti-aircraft guns

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20 mm Flakvierling 38
90 mm anti-aircraft gun M1
Israeli TCM-20
German 8.8 cm anti-aircraft gun, called "Acht-Acht" for short by the soldiers
40 mm Breda L / 70, here as an open double mount (marine variant), the land version has a lightly armored dome turret
Soviet 85mm anti-aircraft gun M1939
20 mm M163 Vulcan, the rifled variant of the same gun is called the M167
A 25 mm CA mle 1939 Hotchkiss anti-aircraft gun in the Saumur Museum
128 mm Flak 40 on a cross mount. Used in this form for local air defense.
Oerlikon 20 mm anti-aircraft gun on board the museum ship HMAS Castlemaine
SU-23-2 in the St. Petersburg Artillery Museum

The list of anti-aircraft guns provides an overview of this type of weapon, broken down by time period and region.

130-mm anti-aircraft gun KS-30 in the St. Petersburg Artillery Museum

Anti-aircraft cannons are used to secure ground troops, ships and strategic objects such as industrial plants from air attacks.

First World War

The first pure anti-aircraft guns were developed during the First World War . It was much more common, however, that conventional field guns and machine guns were used for air defense. Early anti-aircraft guns were also called anti-balloon guns. The names of the weapons often include the specification of the caliber and the aspect ratio of the caliber length.

German Empire

  1. Becker cannon
  2. 77 mm anti-aircraft gun 1914
  3. 8.0 K Flak 1916
  4. 3.7 M-Flak 1917

Great Britain

  1. 13 pounder anti-aircraft gun

Russian Empire

  1. 76mm Lenders anti-aircraft gun M1914 / 15

Second World War

German Empire

  1. 2 cm Flak 30
  2. 2 cm Flak 38
  3. 2 cm anti-aircraft quadruplet 38
  4. 3.7 cm FlaK 43
  5. 3.7 cm anti-aircraft gun twin 43
  6. 5 cm Flak 41
  7. 8.8 cm FlaK 18/36/37
  8. 8.8 cm FlaK 41
  9. 10.5 cm Flak 38
  10. 12.8 cm Flak 40
  11. 12.8 cm flak twin 40

Great Britain

  1. Ordnance QF 76mm anti-aircraft gun
  2. 94 mm Flak Mk 1
  3. Ordnance QF 4.5 inch gun Mk II
  4. Ordnance QF 2 pounder naval gun

United States

  1. 37mm M1A2
  2. 76mm M3
  3. 90 mm M1 gun

Soviet Union

  1. 25mm automatic anti-aircraft gun M1940 (25-K)
  2. 37mm automatic anti-aircraft gun M1939 (61-K)
  3. 76mm anti-aircraft gun M1931 (3-K)
  4. 76mm anti-aircraft gun M1938 (3-K)
  5. 85 mm anti-aircraft gun M1939 (52-K)

France

  1. Mitrailleuse de 25 mm contre-aéroplanes
  2. Canon de 75 antiaérien mle 1913-1917
  3. Canon de 75 contre avion Schneider

Italy

  1. Cannone-mitragliera da 20/65 model 35 (Breda model 35)
  2. Cannone-mitragliera da 20/77 (Scotti) (2 cm FlaK Scotti)
  3. Cannone-mitragliera da 37/54 (Breda)
  4. Cannone da 75/46 model 34
  5. Cannone since 90/53

Poland

  1. Polsten 20 mm anti-aircraft gun

Sweden

  1. 40 mm Bofors gun
  2. 75mm Bofors Model 29

Czechoslovakia

  1. 7.5 cm canon PL vz. 37 (7.5 cm Flak M37 (t), Cannone da 75/49 or 75/50)
  2. 8 cm canon PL vz. 37 (7.65 cm anti-aircraft gun M37 (t))
  3. 8.35 cm canon PL vz. 22 (8.35 cm Flak 22 (t))
  4. 9 cm canon PL vz. 12/20 (9 cm Flak M12 (t))

Japan

Sorted by year of publication.

  1. 80 mm type 3 anti-aircraft gun
  2. 120 mm type 10 anti-aircraft gun
  3. 75 mm type 11 anti-aircraft gun
  4. 10 cm flak type 14
  5. 75 mm type 88 anti-aircraft gun
  6. 12.7 cm type 89 flak
  7. 25 mm FlaMK type 96
  8. 20 mm FlaMK type 98
  9. 88 mm type 99 flak
  10. 20 mm FlaMK type 2
  11. 12 cm type 3 flak
  12. 75 mm type 4 anti-aircraft gun
  13. 15 cm type 5 anti-aircraft gun

post war period

In the post-war period, more attention was paid to the development of mobile anti-aircraft guns and missile systems . Therefore, the development of stationary cannon systems fell sharply. Individual systems can be used mobile, on armored vehicles and as stationary guns.

Germany

  1. Hispano-Suiza 820 L / 85, manufactured by Rheinmetall under license, Bundeswehr designation MK 20-1
  2. Rh 202, successor to the MK 20-1
  3. 35/1000 (cannon)
  4. 40 mm Bofors gun
  5. MANTIS (air defense system)

France

  1. 20mm tarasque

Switzerland

  1. 20 mm Oerlikon cannon
  2. Oerlikon GAI-BO 1
  3. Oerlikon GDF-001
  4. 35mm Oerlikon twin cannon
  5. GDF-CO3

Soviet Union / CIS

  1. SU-23
  2. S-60 57mm automatic anti-aircraft gun
  3. 100 mm anti-aircraft gun KS-19
  4. 130 mm anti-aircraft gun KS-30
  5. 2M-3 (gun)
  6. AK-230

Great Britain

  1. QF 4-inch naval gun Mk XVI

Greece

  1. Artemis (gun)

Italy

  1. 40 mm Breda L / 70

United States

  1. M167 volcano

Sweden

  1. 40 mm Bofors L / 70 anti-aircraft gun

Israel

  1. TCM-20

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fleischer, German Artillery DNB table of contents
  2. ↑ Kraftwagen-Flaks - Films of the Federal Archives. Retrieved June 17, 2018 .
  3. ^ Flak school in Blankenberghe - films from the Federal Archives. Retrieved June 17, 2018 .

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