Looking for this flak canon on a ehrhardt or daimler truck. Is it Daimler of Ehrhardt? How many were produced and from when? 1914 seems a bit early for flak canons. Is it true that they were heavily used to counter Entente tank attacks? Photos are always nice.
Hi CJ, i've got Bart Vanderveen's 'Observers Army Vehicles Directory' here and there's numerous pre-WW1 German anti-aircraft wagons. There are numerous WW1 flak wagens on Daimler chassis, and a couple of pre-war Erhardt ones. I have heard of the Daimler flak-wagens being used against British Tanks, either in 1918 or at Cambrai, but not much more than that - i'd imagine the effects would be devastating, much the same as when my Grandad and his gun crews used their 3.7 inch AA gun's against German tanks at Tobruk
In 1WW built Germans total ca. 80 Krupp-Daimler and Ehrhardt-Rheinmetall BAK's
Some 7,7 cm BAK's was Rheinmetall with Daimler chassis. Russian Imperial army captured 6 BAK's by Germans and German Imperial army captured 2 russian 7,6 cm BAK's Rsso-Balt-Poutiloff.
Latvian army captured by Freikorps 2 Daimler BAK's "Max" and "Moritz".
On photo German Daimler in Russian Service, 1916. 246 Infantery division of RIA.
Thanks guys, Id always thought flak wagons were a war time adoption. The reason I was so interested was from the little I knew and the photos, it seemed like there was an extraordinary amount of standardization with these trucks, which is vary rarely seen, if at all, in WW1 equipment (minus tanks of course). With all those different types I guess not. They do all look extraordinarily similar in photos though, don't they.
Speaking of prewar anti-balloon canons, does anyone know if any imagery exists of the krupp anti-balloon gun used at the siege of Paris in 1871?
