Talk:12.8 cm FlaK 40

Early history
Early history of this page can be found at 12.8cm Flak 40.

Round info
I am in search of drawings of the rounds in use with the gun in reference (i.e.: 10,5cm Flak 38/39 German AA gun) I know that there are also in the web! But unfortunately they aren't quite well masterized when inserted in the web, so printing becomes a hard job. So who has drawings of the above rounds (both H.E. and A.P.C./B.C.) is kindly requested to inform me stating dimension of the drawing sheet, price of the copy, and shipment cost. Thank you in advance. A. Gottardi Genoa ITALY

Pak 44
Is there any proof that the Pak 44 antitank gun was developed from the Flak 40 AA gun?

There is a major error here - the 128mm Flak and the 128mm K Family (K43/44/128mm Pak) had almost nothing in common. The Flak was a Rheinmetall design and the others were Krup. A seperate page needs to be made for the K/Pak product and the links need to be changed away from here - might do it when I get time.

--Rbaal 01:52, 24 July 2007 (UTC) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by LV (talk • contribs).

Removed any reference to the Pak 44 as this was a completely different gun - added Pak 44 page

12.8 cm Pak 44 --Rbaal 01:02, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

It appears Rheinmetall did develop a candidate for the 12.8cm PAK based on their FlAK gun but it was rejected in favour of the Krupp design. Different weapon. 62.196.17.197 (talk) 11:46, 26 March 2012 (UTC)

The Rheinmetall gun was the 12.8cm PaK 40, after rejection in favour of the Krupp PaK 44 gun it was used on the two Sturer Emil prototypes. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 114.30.100.222 (talk) 15:29, 19 May 2012 (UTC)

WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Tag & Assess 2008
Article reassessed and graded as stub  --dashiellx (talk) 18:19, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Captured ww2 french cannon
Is there any written evidence of French ww2 captured 155 mm cannon being relined and rebored to utilise german 12.8mm shells — Preceding unsigned comment added by 176.250.29.245 (talk) 14:36, 12 February 2013 (UTC) I think you mean 12.8 cm shells. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.170.8.5 (talk) 07:05, 10 March 2017 (UTC)
 * On the PAK 44 page there is mention of using French and Russian carriages to mount 12.8cm guns if that's any help... 51.6.242.179 (talk) 16:25, 15 October 2017 (UTC)

Contradictory
It says in the text that it could throw a shell to 48,556ft, but in the info box, it give maximum range as a bit over 35,000ft. That's quite a discrepancy. AnnaGoFast (talk) 04:59, 23 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Not really. AA artillery is two problems (the two relevant here): throwing shells in the air, and throwing them in the right direction.  Shells decelerate in flight, so their speed near apogee is getting pretty slow. The targeting problem is about predicting the path of shell and target aircraft, which may also be manouevering evasively; so a fast shell makes the prediction problem easier.  As the shell weight is relatively unimportant in terms of causing damage, and the ceiling of a Lancaster was only about 21,000 feet, the reason for the growing calibre of these later WWII AA guns was for their faster flight (more propellant, heavier shells, better aerodynamic coefficient).
 * So this leads to a significant difference between altitude of the gun alone, and the much lower effective altitude of the system overall. Andy Dingley (talk) 09:40, 23 May 2016 (UTC)

These guns also used on flak towers - worth mentioning? 86.170.8.5 (talk) 20:05, 5 March 2017 (UTC)
These guns also used on German & Austrian flak towers.

Flak guns against tanks on the flak towers
It seems that the story of the 128mm on teh berlin flak towers beings used against Russian tanks is a myth. never happened.

It possible that the 37 & 20 mm were used but the 128mm were not (as they could not be) - not sure how to word this though.

They could have been used a general artillery but again not sure how to word this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rbaal (talk • contribs) 20:10, 19 November 2017 (UTC)


 * A good point. With the guns very high up on the towers and no means to depress them below -3 degrees, they had tremendous dead spots. Add trees and buildings to severely limit the field of fire, they almost with certainty have only been used in the indirect fire role. 77.183.155.186 (talk) 13:08, 10 June 2024 (UTC)