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3 Apr 2014, 16:28 PM
#221
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wow, I really want to visit one of those Flak Towers now!
3 Apr 2014, 16:33 PM
#222
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3 Apr 2014, 18:33 PM
#223
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I am lucky to be german so for me it is not THAT far to visit them :)
3 Apr 2014, 19:10 PM
#224
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Well, maybe living in germany will finally have another perk.
3 Apr 2014, 19:23 PM
#225
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cane someone explain flak towers specially with pics?
3 Apr 2014, 19:26 PM
#226
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cane someone explain flak towers specially with pics?


Well basically they were just Bunkers which were armed with multiple Flak-Guns like the 88 or the "Vierlingsflak"
3 Apr 2014, 20:27 PM
#227
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The final mission in MOH:Airborne Assault is jumping into a flak tower like this, but except taller and with more layers of anti-aircraft guns.

3 Apr 2014, 20:32 PM
#228
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there is a really good book on this

3 Apr 2014, 21:01 PM
#229
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cane someone explain flak towers specially with pics?


The Germans built 8 FLAK ( FLug Abwehr Kanone = AA ) Tower emplacements in Hamburg, Berlin and Vienna in an atempt to protect the cities from allied air raids.
Overground Bunkers that could hold 10,000 to maybe 30,000 civilians each.
They were invulnerable to almost all kind of bombs having 3.5 - 5 meters of ferroconcrete walls.

The later designs featured two connected towers:

A G-Tower / Gefechtsturm / Combat Tower and
an L-Tower / Leitturm / Directing Tower.



They were placed in a triangle formation around the city's center.
The Towers had a fighting range of up to 21 km, and could spew out 8000 rounds per minute.



During the last days the Flak Tower crews deployed their AA Guns against the soviet ground forces and the towers only ceased to fire with the official capitulation of the High Command.
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3 Apr 2014, 21:54 PM
#230
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Holy crap, like in sniper elite v2!
3 Apr 2014, 22:36 PM
#231
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I hope you dont mind me contributing a little myself from my pics folder

1st image: A sturmpanzer IV hit by an AP shell from an ISU-152


2nd image: A panther hit by an HE shell from an ISU-152


3rd image: No comment
3 Apr 2014, 22:48 PM
#232
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Sturm Tiger...
Sturm Grenadiers...
This picture...
I think I see a pattern here.
3 Apr 2014, 23:05 PM
#233
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Well many soviet tanks didn t look much better when they meet Panthers or Tigers on the Battlefield:

Destroyed IS-2 Pictures:

Whole Turret of this IS-2 where blown off







Destroyed KV-1


Destroyed KV-2 turret blown off


3 Apr 2014, 23:28 PM
#234
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Well, you got to armour up then, like this concrete armored t-34

4 Apr 2014, 02:45 AM
#235
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And speaking of flak

picture of the rare german 50mm flak cannon


Germany using captured .50 cals


Picture of 90mm flak cannon with kill markings. Kinda rare since the allies didnt use kill markings as much as the germans did, and preferred to use art or slogans instead.
4 Apr 2014, 05:47 AM
#236
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Germans inspecting...KV-1?

http://postimg.org/image/x4uamz13n/

IL-2 during Operation Bagration

http://postimg.org/image/o3k12exlx/

Edit : Picture not appearing,got to click the link to see it....first uploads :(
4 Apr 2014, 12:39 PM
#237
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You mean you guys have never heard of the zirkus fallschirmjägers? After the allies gained air superiority and the luftwaffe couldn't drop behind enemy lines, an adventurous fallschirmjäger with a past career in the circus said "GUYS, I HAVE AN IDEA FOR GETTING AIRBORNE!"...

and thus this is why relic hasnt added fallschirmjägers until there are sturmtigers to launch them across the map
4 Apr 2014, 13:12 PM
#238
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Spanish wehrmacht soldiers :)


Jesulin's grenadiers Kappa
5 Apr 2014, 10:48 AM
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Panzerhaubitzen "Hummel" in Russia
5 Apr 2014, 11:40 AM
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