History

The German 88mm Flak has to be considered the most famous artillery piece of World War 2. Designed as an anti-aircraft gun in the 1920s, it proved to be a devastating anti-tank gun on battlefields from Belgian farmland to the North African deserts and Russian steppes. Like many weapons of the Third Reich, there was a bewildering proliferation of models and variants. The 88s equipped armored trains, concrete flak towers, and eventually the fearsome Tiger tank. We have two of these in inventory as there are only 3 in the United States. Both are capable of firing blanks.