7,5 cm Flak L/59 in Afghanistan?
7,5 cm Flak L/59 in Afghanistan?
Here are two intriguing pictures I’ve found on a French WW2 forum showing several AA guns in Afghanistan. They look to me like 7,5 cm Flak L/59 guns!
See here for comparison with a drawing in Chamberlain & Gander:
Emmanuel
See here for comparison with a drawing in Chamberlain & Gander:
Emmanuel
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Re: 7,5 cm Flak L/59 in Afghanistan?
Wow. Did the Afghan government of the 1930s buy these? If not how did they get there?
Clive
Re: 7,5 cm Flak L/59 in Afghanistan?
Hello Emmanuel
Great find , I was looking for the guns too , but could not find the origin .
Would be very interesting to know how the guns get there .
http://www.network54.com/Forum/330333/t ... oviet+deal
Strange is that the photo the book Small Arms ,Artillery and Special Weapons
from the same authors shows a other 7.5 cm Flak L/59 on the photo .
Regards Jos
Great find , I was looking for the guns too , but could not find the origin .
Would be very interesting to know how the guns get there .
http://www.network54.com/Forum/330333/t ... oviet+deal
Strange is that the photo the book Small Arms ,Artillery and Special Weapons
from the same authors shows a other 7.5 cm Flak L/59 on the photo .
Regards Jos
Re: 7,5 cm Flak L/59 in Afghanistan?
Hello!
An interesting find! Judging by the state of these guns, they seem still to be usable.
Best regards, Aleks
An interesting find! Judging by the state of these guns, they seem still to be usable.
Best regards, Aleks
Re: 7,5 cm Flak L/59 in Afghanistan?
Hello Aleks
Do you know any 7.5 cm L/59 or 7.62 L/59 from Rheinmetall Borsig that enter service in the Soviet Army ?
Regards Jos
Do you know any 7.5 cm L/59 or 7.62 L/59 from Rheinmetall Borsig that enter service in the Soviet Army ?
Regards Jos
Re: 7,5 cm Flak L/59 in Afghanistan?
AFAIK, 4 (some sources give 2 guns, but figure 4 is more common) 76.2 mm. Rheinmetall AA guns with barrel length of 55 and 60 calibers were delivered to the USSR, but they were used only for experiments connected with the development of Soviet AA gun 3-K.jopaerya wrote:Do you know any 7.5 cm L/59 or 7.62 L/59 from Rheinmetall Borsig that enter service in the Soviet Army ?
Best regards, Aleks
Re: 7,5 cm Flak L/59 in Afghanistan?
спасибо Aleks
Regards Jos
Regards Jos
Re: 7,5 cm Flak L/59 in Afghanistan?
Всегда рад помочь.
Best regards, Aleks
Best regards, Aleks
Re: 7,5 cm Flak L/59 in Afghanistan?
We know that Bulgaria obtained some of these guns from Germany:
"20 X 7,5 cm Rheinmetal Flak L/59 were delivered to Bulgaria in 1941"
(From here: http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=70&t=69248)
Communist Bulgaria could have sent some of the remaining guns to their "brother" regime in Afghanistan in the 80's.
Emmanuel
"20 X 7,5 cm Rheinmetal Flak L/59 were delivered to Bulgaria in 1941"
(From here: http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=70&t=69248)
Communist Bulgaria could have sent some of the remaining guns to their "brother" regime in Afghanistan in the 80's.
Emmanuel
Re: 7,5 cm Flak L/59 in Afghanistan?
It could be a variant, but firstly, there are 4 guns in the photo which makes 20% of 20 guns obtained by Bulgaria, and taking into account events of Bulgarian history in 1940s, I think it is not very probable that such a significant proportion of guns survived until 80s. Secondly, I'm not sure that even Afghans would accept such an obsolete weapons.Manuferey wrote:Communist Bulgaria could have sent some of the remaining guns to their "brother" regime in Afghanistan in the 80's.
That's why I think that these guns most probably were delivered to Afghanistan in 1930s or 1940s.
Best regards, Aleks