So, only 9 mobile guns were produced !?
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So, only 9 mobile guns were produced !?
- 80 cupola's (1001-1080) were ordered at "De Muinck Keizer"(Utrecht, NL)
I wouldn't call them 'mobile'; normally they were employed on a fixed 'casemate' carriage. However, each gun gun was also provided with a mobile carriage.
These could have been for a newly ordered batch of 15 Kanons van 5 Kazemat No2. The order was made prior to May 1940, but there is no indication that these weapons were produced before or during the German occupation. In fact I have never seen any records of post May 40 use of the AI Hembrug Kazemat kanons No2. They were mentioned in the Denkschrift on Dutch fortifications, but identified there as Hembrug-Bofors (sic).svdb10 wrote: ↑08 May 2021, 13:49However, to make matters even more complicated, there was also a separate design for a cupola for the 5cm L50 gun no2. At least 7 of these cupola's were ordered at Cockerill (no 431-437) and were meant for emplacement on various weak spots in the Dutch Waterline (NHW)
Thanks JK!