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Turkish 3,7cm Flak

MiguelMaxim

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20170806_145836.jpg20170806_145836.jpg20170806_145850.jpg20170806_145850.jpgGot it in Turkey and still there. 37x252 german Flak turkish made. AS.FAB means Askeri Fabrikasi or Military Fabrications. Turkish Army received some german Flaks along with the 37/50 Pak. in a cooperation plan like the Bär Program with Spain. The T.C. means Turkiye Cumhuriyet or Turkish Republic.
 
You are right. The case is 263mm belted, as usual. Think they received 12 pieces in 1939 from a german programm. In 1940 they received also some french Hotchkiss 25mm antitank guns and 150mm artillery. Still working with tihis issue but not easy job.
The projectile showed in the pic was converted to a lighter, so the nose in the place of the fuze is not original.
 
You are right. The case is 263mm belted, as usual. Think they received 12 pieces in 1939 from a german programm. In 1940 they received also some french Hotchkiss 25mm antitank guns and 150mm artillery. Still working with tihis issue but not easy job.
The projectile showed in the pic was converted to a lighter, so the nose in the place of the fuze is not original.

Although it is converted into a lighter the shape of it looks like the real thing. Perhaps it is a factory made promotion piece.
Here some images from a 1937 Rheinmetall Borsig document.
 

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