2 cm Gebirgs-Flak 38 ??

[jopaerya]

Hello

Is this gun a 2 cm Geb.Flak 38 or a 2 cm Flak 38 Sondergeschütz für die Fallschirmtruppe ??

Photo = Ebay.de

Regards Jos

[Sitzkrieg]

Doesn't look like a Gebirgsflak mount.
Also an old pictorial about the Hellenic Army, titled "The Hellenic Army of Today 1936-1940" includes a photo of such a gun carried on a Hansa-Lloyd truck:

[jopaerya]

Hello Sitzkrieg

So the gun could be captured Greek gun , there were some German 2 cm in
Greek service before the war as we can see on your picture and the list .

Regards Jos

[Sitzkrieg]

The Greek guns were mostly standard Flak 30. This type of mount was also in service in unknown but most likely smaller numbers.

[Manuferey]

This looks like the same gun (photo ebay.de). Is the soldier Italian or Greek or from another southeastern European country ?


Emmanuel

[jopaerya]

Hello Emannuel

Thanks for the nice picture of this piece of flak , still it looks German made ?

Regards Jos

[jopaerya]

Hello All

The 2 cm Flak on the list from the Greek weapons you can see the name Rheinmetall ,
but also the placename Suhl so this must be the Gustloff-Werke former Simson .

Regards Jos

[jopaerya]

Hello All

Thanks to Idomeneas please see http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic. ... 3&start=30 .

Regards Jos

[jopaerya]

Hello All

Thanks to Francy Ritter here a photo from what looks like the same 2 cm
Flak gun in Chinese service , the Chinese army was equipped with a lot of
German weapons in the years before the W.W.2 .

Photo = Ebay.de

Regards Jos

[AvB]

And helmets too!

[jopaerya]

Hello All

Looks to me the same gun but this time with a gunshield .

Photo = Ebay.usa

Regards Jos

[SASH155]

The weapon is a Rheinmetall/Solothurn ST-5-106 2cm automatic cannon, which was exported to China among other countries (including Greece, I think). This weapon has undoubtedly been regularly confused with the 2cm FlaK-30, which was based on the ST-5 series of cannon.

[jopaerya]

Thanks SACH155

Do you know were I can find some information on this gun and the countries with
recieved this gun , are they any books or internetsite's or original information ???

Regards Jos

[SASH155]

Get a copy of "German Machineguns", a comprehensive work on all types of German designed automatic weapons of rifle caliber and above, it has a chapter at the end on exports of German machineguns and automatic cannon, and talks about different user countries.

[Sturm78]

Hi all,

Another photo of Solothurn 20mm ST-5 AA gun.
Can anybody identify the country of the soldier who appears in the photo?

According to Filippo Cappellano (Le artiglierie del Regio Esercito nella Seconda Guerra Mondiale), this weapon also was acquired by the Italian army both in AA version as AT version