Hi,

I was wondering: I am building a flak 36 and on the bogeys are in total 4 cable reels mounted. What were they used for?? And what is the round object that is on the end of the line that is rolled on it???

Cheers,

Matthijs

Heavy FlaK guns could be connected to a central control unit which would feed targeting data to each crew. This way all guns of the battery would be firing on the same target. The control unit was set a distance away from the guns themselves.

The round object is a connection head of some sort.

Read these articles

http://www.missing-lynx.com/library/german/flak_dmourtizsen.html

http://www.missing-lynx.com/library/german/flak2_dmourtizsen.html

Hi Roy,

thanks a lot for the info and thanks for the useful links

cheers,

Matthijs

I had wondered the same thing and thought they were for communications of some sort. Now, this makes sense for A/A units, but would a dedicated AT gun have empty reels?? Or no reels at all? Just curious. I am in the process of building several of the Dragon 88 variants but not using the carriages (will probably post them for sale or trade here soon, along with the figures).

The 88 was designed as an anti aircraft weapon but ended up being used as both AAA and Anti tank. The regular 88 would have the reels and everything else needed for the AAA role,even if it was at the time being used in the anti tank role. If you plan to have it in a permanent emplacement then you wouldn't have the carraige in the scene anyway and so wouldn't have the spools either.
HTH,
J

I wrote this article a few years back. It might shed some more info into this discussion

http://www.track-link.com/articles/1203