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GTX_Admin:
Hi folks,

A thread dedicated to your land based Anti-Aircraft system ideas and inspiration.  This includes, Self Propelled Anti-Aircraft systems (SPAAGS), Surface to Air Missiles (SAMs) and anything else that matches...including even oddities such as this:

Zippermeyer Wirbelwind Kanone:




--- Quote ---Dr. Zippermeyer, an eccentric Austrian inventor working at an experimental establishment at Lofer in the Tyrol, designed and built a series of highly unorthodox anti-aircraft weapons that were observed very closely by the Reichsluftfahrtamt (Office of Aeronautics) in Berlin. Due to the overwhelming numerical air superiority of the Allies every effort was made during the last year of the war to find ways of exploiting any known phenomenon that could bring down the heavy bombers of the USAAF and RAF.
 
Dr. Zippermeyer constructed both a huge Wirbelwind Kanone (Whirlwind Cannon) and Turbulenz Kanone (Vortex Cannon). Both had the same goal - to knock down enemy bombers through clever manipulation of air.

To achieve this, the “Wind Cannon” used a detonation of hydrogen and oxygen to form a highly compressed plug of air that was channeled through a long tube that was bent at an angle and fired like a shell towards enemy aircraft. Impossible as this may seem the Wind Cannon did particularly well on the ground - breaking one inch thick wooden boards from a range of 200 yards! This promising development, however, meant nothing against the Allied bombers that were flying at 20,000 ft! Nevertheless, taken from the Hillersleben Proving Grounds the Wind Cannon was used in defense of a bridge over the Elbe River in 1945. Either there were no aircraft present or the cannon had no effect because it was still intact where it was found.
 
The Turbulenz Kanone, by comparison, was a large caliber mortar sunk into the ground with fired coal dust and slow burning explosive shells to create an artificial vortex. This also worked well on the ground but again the problem was the same - how to generate a large enough effect to reach the aircraft. Zippermeyer did not know if the pressure changes of this device would be sufficient to cause structural damage to an aircraft but the vortex would definitely have an effect on the wing loading as even clear air turbulence had brought down civilian airliners.
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Regards,

Greg

GTX_Admin:
Does anyone know if you can get a kit in 1/35 of the Green Mace Anti-Aircraft Gun?

Maverick:
The question would be more "what 35th scale AAGs can you get?"  As a rule they're very rare on the ground excepting Bofors & German kit in general.

Regards,

John

GTX_Admin:
I dub thee "Porcupine":

GTX_Admin:
Add Vertical launched AMRAAM to a LVTP7 and what do you get?  This:

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