Honved AA Artillery Placement in Russia, 1941 - Hungarian Forces | Gallery

Honved AA Artillery Placement in Russia, 1941

A Hungarian crew, having motored deep into the USSR often under difficult circumstances, sets into position its anti-aircraft artillery piece.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.ww2incolor.com/gallery/hungarian-forces/42003/honved-aa-artillery-placement-in-russia-1941

The carriage does not look right for an AA gun, it looks more like a field gun?.

The 80mm 29m Bofors (Only large calibre AA weapon I know they used) had a criciform carriage similar to the German 88mm.

Hi Leccy. I agree the carriage looks more like that of "regular" artillery.

So far as AA guns go, Here’s a partial list of some others guns, swiped from another forum. I haven’t double-checked it, so if anybody wants to correct or add…

Medium antiaircraft cannon 5/8 M (Škoda, Magyar gyarto?), 76.5 mm
Medium antiaircraft cannon 14 M (Škoda), 76.5 mm
Medium antiaircraft cannon 29 M, 29/38 M (Bofors), 80.0 mm
Medium antiaircraft cannon 14 M (Škoda), 76.5 mm
Medium antiaircraft cannon (German FLAK 37/41), 88.0 mm
Medium antiaircraft cannon (ex-Soviet 85 mm, recalibrated), 88.0 mm
Heavy antiaircraft cannon 38 M, 39 M (German Flak 38 and 39), 105.0 mm

Good observations, guys. Perhaps someone will tell us more on the subject.