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the Family of the 88-mm FlaK guns . Decoding FlaK, reduction German Flugzeugabwehr-Kanone or Flugabwehr-Kanone (where K) the designation anti-aircraft gun. The figure behind the abbreviation indicates the year of the sample gun, originally referred to as FlaK 18, which was done to circumvent the limitations of the Treaty of Versailles. Flak /36/37 anti-aircraft guns used the Sonderanhänger 202, which had a large load capacity, a higher transport speed and, most importantly, it allowed to fire directly from the trolley. The 88mm anti-aircraft gun was the only weapon capable of easily stopping heavily armored tanks such as the British Matilda, the French Char B and our Soviet KV-1. despite the existence of special anti-tank guns, FlaK was used against tanks until the end of the war. Early versions provided the initial speed of the armor-piercing projectile 795 m/s, the maximum horizontal range of 14 813 m. Flak 41 the initial speed of the projectile was raised to 1000 m/s, and the maximum firing range — up to 19 730 m.
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