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Wednesday, March 20, 2019

German Eisenbahnflak 7,62-cm L/30 (russ 02) Rheinmetall M1915. Photograph taken on January 8, 1917.


(German Anti-Aircraft Gun System, WWI)

Eisenbahnflak 7,62-cm L/30 (russ 02) 
Rheinmetall M1915


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German Eisenbahnflak 7.62-cm L/30 (russ 02) Rheinmetall M1915 (*)

German Railway Anti-Aircraft 7.62-cm L / 30 (russ 02) Gun. Rheinmetall M1915. 

(Photograph taken on January 8, 1917)

(*)- Eisenbahnflak = Eisenbahn (Fla.K.) = Railway Anti-Aircraft Gun = Cañón antiaéreo ferroviario

German anti-aircraft railway assembly carried out by Rheinmetall in 1915 on a French artillery wagon with normal 3-axle track passage Peigné.

Only 12 special artillery wagons were manufactured, armed with 155-mm guns, wagons adapted to the conventional European railway width.

This 3-axis model was never used by the French army, who did use the 4-axis model designed by M. Canet, and adapted to transit by narrow roads of 0.60 cm.

Of the twelve mentioned above, six of them were acquired by Denmark for the mobile defense of Copenhagen.

The other six were acquired by Russia, with 155-mm guns replaced by 152-mm guns.

All of these 6 Russian gun carriages were captured by the Germans in northern Russia between the end of 1914 and the beginning of 1915.

The Rheinmetall house, which had already transformed a large number of Russian Putilov M1902 field guns of 76.2-mm L/30 into anti-aircraft guns (BaK or Flak), was commissioned to replace the 152-mm Russian guns with the aforementioned 7.62-cm (76.2-mm) anti-aircraft guns. 

The wagons were also slightly transformed. This hybridization resulted in the birth of the first standard anti-aircraft car (6 units) in history.

They provided antiaircraft coverage, both to railway convoys, and to possible railway static targets (stations, warehouses, track crossings, etc.).

Its mobility, within the limitation of the railway field, was much higher than that of the motorized BaK [Flak].
   
This provision resulted in a large number of antiaircraft wagon designs, both at an immediate date and in later times and by different countries.

After the Great War, at least one of these anti-aircraft wagons was used by the Freikorps in Berlin, during the course of the Kapp Coup d'Etat (Kapp-Putsch), carried out between March 13 and 17, 1920.

See the post:

Wednesday, December 11, 2013
Freikorps Armored Train armed with one 7.62-cm Flak L/30 (russ 02) 'Eisenbahnflak' Rheinmetall.


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German Eisenbahnflak 7,62-cm L/30 (russ 02) Rheinmetall M1915 (*)

Cañón Antiaéreo Ferroviario alemán Rheinmetall M1915 de 7,62-cm L/30 (russ 02).

(Fotografía realizada el 8 de enero de 1917)

(*)- Eisenbahnflak = Eisenbahn (Fla.K.) = Railway Anti-Aircraft Gun = Cañón antiaéreo ferroviario

Montaje ferroviario antiaéreo alemán realizado por Rheinmetall en 1915 sobre un vagón de artillería francés de paso de vía normal de 3 ejes Peigné.

Sólo se fabricaron 12 vagones especiales de artillería, armados con cañones de 155-mm, vagones adaptados al ancho convencional ferroviario europeo.

Este modelo de 3 ejes nunca fue utilizado por el ejercito francés, quien sí utilizó el de 4 ejes diseñado por M. Canet, y adaptado al transito por vías estrechas de 0,60 cm.

De los doce anteriormente mencionado, seis de ellos fueron adquiridos por Dinamarca para la defensa móvil de Copenhague.

Los otros seis fueron adquiridos por Rusia, siendo sustituidos los cañones de 155-mm por otros de 152-mm.

La totalidad de estos 6 vagones artillados rusos fueron capturados por los alemanes en el norte de Rusia entre finales de 1914 y principios de 1915.
 
La casa Rheinmetall, que ya había trasformado un gran número de cañones de campaña rusos Putilov M1902 de 76.2-mm L/30 en cañones antiaéreos (BaK ó Flak), recibió el encargo de sustituir los cañones de 152-mm rusos por los citados cañones antiaéreos transformados de 7,62-cm (76,2-mm).

También se transformaron ligeramente los vagones. Este hibridaje dio lugar al nacimiento del primer vagón antiaéreo estándar (6 unidades) de la historia.

Proporcionaron cobertura antiaérea, tanto a convoyes ferroviarios, como a posibles objetivos estáticos ferroviarios (estaciones, almacenes, cruces de vías, etc.).

Su movilidad, dentro de la limitación del ámbito ferroviario, era muy superior a la de los BaK [Flak] motorizados.
   
Esta disposición dio lugar, tanto en fechas inmediatas, como en épocas posteriores y por diferentes países, a un gran número de diseños de vagones antiaéreos.

Finalizada la Gran Guerra, al menos uno de estos vagones antiaéreos, fue utilizado por los Freikorps en Berlín, durante el transcurso del Golpe de Estado de Kapp (Kapp-Putsch), llevado a cabo entre el 13 y el 17 de marzo de 1920.

Ver el post:

Wednesday, December 11, 2013
Freikorps Armored Train armed with one 7.62-cm Flak L/30 (russ 02) 'Eisenbahnflak' Rheinmetall.

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