Flaming Onion
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The flaming onion was a 37 mm revolving-barrel anti-aircraft gun used by the German army during World War I, the name referring to both the gun, and especially the flares it fired. The American 'balloon-buster' ace, Frank Luke, was a prominent victim of this device, and it was mentioned in Eddie Rickenbacker's book Fighting the Flying Circus and in many "Biggles" stories. The term could also be applied to any sort of anti-aircraft fire that used a visible tracer, appearing in reports of combat from the Battle of Taranto, for instance. The actual weapon was a Gatling type, smooth bore, short barreled automatic revolver called a 'lichtspucker' (light spitter) that was designed to fire flares at low velocity in rapid sequence across a battle area. This gun had five barrels and could launch a 37 mm artillery shell about five thousand feet (1500 m). To maximize the chance of a strike, all five rounds were discharged as rapidly as possible, giving the 'string of flaming onions' effect.
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- Allgemeine Informationen
- GTIN 09786130641573
- Herausgeber Alphascript Publishing
- Anzahl Seiten 204
- Genre Baum- und Umwelttechnik
- Editor Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
- Sprache Englisch
- Gewicht 320g
- Untertitel Anti-aircraft warfare, World War I, Frank Luke, Eddie Rickenbacker, Battle of Taranto, Gatling gun, Western Front, World War II, Bomber, Korean War, Insignia, Hand grenade, Napalm
- Größe H220mm x B150mm x T12mm
- Jahr 2010
- EAN 9786130641573
- Format Fachbuch
- ISBN 978-613-0-64157-3
- Titel Flaming Onion
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