Kraftwagen-Flak - German ‘K-Flak’ Vehicle-Mounted and Trailer-Mounted Anti-Aircraft Guns

Autor: Jochen Vollert

Aus der Reihe "Tankograd World War One" (Imperial German Army weapons and soldiers of the great war 1914-1918) No 1015.

Alle Texte in englischer Sprache.

With the outbreak of World War One, Imperial Germany had been engaging with army motorisation for almost 15 years. Yet on the matter of specialised tactical military vehicles, no final design or even production had ensued. Therefore, Germany entered the war with a fleet of rear-wheel-drive civilian trucks, cars and motorcycles, with very few of them even partially militarised. There was one vital exception: for motorised anti-aircraft artillery, the crucial need for a specially designed all-wheel-drive carrier vehicle had been identified at an early stage.
This publication deals in depth with, for the first time ever, the Kraftwagen-Flak motor vehicle-based anti-balloon and anti-aircraft artillery of the Kaiserreich. Lavishly illustrated with contemporary photographs, this book tells the story from pre-war prototypes through to active service during the war years, and even into the post-war Freikorps and Reichswehr periods. Additional chapters cover Kraftwagen-Zugflak motor vehicle-towed trailer-mounted and Raupenflak tracked carrier-mounted anti-aircraft artillery.

In 96 pages this publication is lavishly illustrated with 222 photographs, the vast majority of which have never been published before.

Inhalt:

• Introduction by the Publisher
• German Air Defence - A Brief History of the Beginnings
• Kraftwagen-BAK - Prototypes of the Pre-War Era, 1906-14: Rheinmetall-Ehrhardt Anti-Balloon Gun Carrier Model 1906 --- Rheinmetall-Ehrhardt Anti-Balloon Gun Carrier Model 1908 --- Krupp-Daimler Flatbed Carrier Model 1908, Type 1 --- Krupp-Daimler Flatbed Carrier Model 1908, Type 2 --- Krupp-Daimler Flatbed Carrier Model 1910, Type 1 --- Krupp-Daimler Flatbed Carrier Model 1910, Type 2 --- Rheinmetall-Ehrhardt Flatbed Carrier Model 1910 --- Krupp-Daimler Flatbed Carrier Model 1911, Type 1 --- Krupp-Daimler Flatbed Carrier Model 1911, Type 2 --- Rheinmetall-Ehrhardt Flatbed Carrier Model 1911 02.11 Rheinmetall-Ehrhardt Flatbed Carrier Model 1912 02.12 Krupp-Daimler Flatbed Carrier Model 1913 --- Rheinmetall-Ehrhardt Flatbed Carrier Model 1913 02.14 Krupp-Daimler Flatbed Carrier Model 1914 --- Rheinmetall-Ehrhardt Flatbed Carrier Model 1914
• Kraftwagen-BAK/Flak in Wartime, 1914-18: Kraftwagen-BAK Prototypes at War --- Rheinmetall-Ehrhardt Kraftwagen-Flak, Model 1914 --- Krupp-Ehrhardt Kraftwagen-Flak, Hybrid --- Krupp-Daimler Kraftwagen-Flak, Model 1914 --- Rheinmetall-Daimler Kraftwagen-Flak, Hybrid --- Kraftwagen-Flak, Further Developments 1916-17 --- Henschel-Ehrhardt Kraftwagen-Flak, Models 1917 and 1918
• Kraftwagen-Flak in Action 1914-18
• Krupp-Daimler Kraftwagen-Flak in the Freikorps, 1918-19
• Geschützkraftwagen Gun Motor Carriage 19, 1918-36: Gun Motor Carriage 19, First Production Batch --- Gun Motor Carriage 19, Second Production Batch --- Gun Motor Carriage 19, Third Production Batch
• 80mm, 88mm and 105mm Trailer-based Zugflak Towed Flak
• Tracked Raupen-Flak Gun Motor Carriage
• Production Overview
• Sources and Further Reading

Broschur im Format DIN A4 mit 96 Seiten und 222 Abbildungen.
Softcover with 96 pages and 215 pictures, size 29,5 x 21 cm.
Neubuch von Tankograd Publishing Erlangen.

Gewicht: 540 Gramm