Description

Features:

• Newly produced ammunition box

• 5-directional slide-molded one-piece gun barrel w/hollow muzzle

• 3.7cm Flak 37 realistically presented

• Gun with/without gun shield can be assembled

• Cannon can be freely posed at different angles

• Travel lock realistically presented

• Option for opened or folded gun shield

• Gun shield w/bolt detail in scale thickness

• Gun sight and hand wheels w/well-defined detail

• Gun cradle offers great detail definition

• Triangular base-plate gun platform authentically detailed

• 5 boxes of realistically reproduced 3.7 cm ammunition included

Rheinmetall developed its 3.7cm Flak 18 anti-aircraft cannon in 1935, although only a small number were produced. However, development continued in the guise of the 3.7cm Flak 36, and when a new Zeiss sighting system (Flakvisier) was incorporated the following year, it ultimately became known as the 3.7cm Flak 37. By the time production drew down in 1944, a total of 1178 Flak 37 cannons had been manufactured. For transport the 1544kg cannon was usually mounted on a two-wheel trailer and the whole combination weighed a total of 2400kg. The weapon could traverse 360 degrees and its theoretical rate of fire was 820m/s. Normally a crew of eight men would service each weapon, with a ceiling altitude of 4800m possible.

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The same Flak 37 weapon was mounted on the Sd.Kfz.7/2 armored halftrack. Now, however, Dragon is offering a standalone kit of the antiaircraft cannon. Usefully, the kit can be built according to two options ... either with or without the gun shield. Even more than that, if the gun shield is installed, it can be depicted fully extended or folded. It may be a small kit, but it is full of detail. Take the one-piece gun barrel, for example. It is made from a sophisticated five-directional slide mold in order to present an accurate replica with a hollow muzzle. Modelers can pose the gun in various elevations or degrees of traverse. It also comes complete with a set of finely scaled 3.7cm ammunition rounds to help create an authentic scene. This carefully crafted cannon is ready for immediate emplacement in a modeler...s diorama!