BRITAINS SOLDIERS 25084 - German 88mm Flak Commander And Handler

Name: BRITAINS SOLDIERS 25084 - German 88mm Flak Commander And Handler
Brand: W Britains

W Britains

A WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITY TO ADD TO YOUR COLLECTION!!!\n\nFOR COLLECTORS OF 14 YEARS +, THIS IS A DETAILED SCALE MODEL PRODUCED BY WILLIAM BRITAINS (FAMOUS FOR YEARS OF PRODUCING METAL \""TOY\"" SOLDIERS).\n\nNicely Boxed\n\nBRITAINS SOLDIERS 25084 - German 88mm Flak Commander And Handler\nThe full crew for a Flak 36/37 was eleven men: 2 gunners, 1 loader, 1 fuze setter, 5 ammunition handlers, 1 commander and a driver. A trained crew could deploy a gun in 2 1\u20442 minutes and fire at a ground target up to nine miles away \u2013 a distance that exceeded almost every Allied tank\u2019s main armament range. Although originally designed as an anti-aircraft gun it proved to be a superb anti-tank gun as well. The standard anti-aircraft platform allowed gunners to depress the muzzle below the horizontal, unlike most of its contemporaries. The simple-to-operate \u201Csemi-automatic\u201D loading system ejected fired shells, allowing it to be reloW