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Enamus EKV õt kuulipildujaid oli kaliibriga 7,62mm. Olid mõned suurekaliibrised paaris torud ,aga neid oli väga vähe. Ja neist vähestestki olid enamud Oru lossi kaitsel !

Äkki oskad ka öelda, et mis torud ning kui palju...

Sugugi mitte norimise mõttes

Minu teada oli õhutõrje relvaostu kavades päris pikka aega ka suurekaliibriliste kuulipildujate ost. (Jutt käis vist mingitest 13,2 mm prantsuse torudest), aga minu teadmist mööda tegudeni ei jõutud...

Nii palju kui olen kohanud dokumentides juttu eesti õhutõrje kuulipildujaist - tegu 7,62 mm Colt'i "raskekuulipildujatega" (raskekuulipildujad selles mõttes, et tõesti olid rasked ning lafetil, mitte aga suurekaliibrilised), millede jaoks olid olemas õhutõrje alused ning -sihikud...

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kui sul on vanu lennundusega seotud pilte, dokumente või muud huvitavat - võta ühendust...

Colt-ide puhul on ilmselt tegemist Vabadussõjaaegsete kuulipildujatega,
millised kohandatud õhukaitseks. Ei ole kuulnud-lugenud, et Eesti Vabariik
oleks USA-st relvastust hankinud.

Dear friends, I'm an ammateur inter-war military history researcher from Lithuania. I'm doing research on Lithuanian Army Artillery and I'm going to compare artillery of the Baltic states (Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Finland). My knowledge on Estonian artillery is based on the Urmo Salo, Nomm works and some information from the internet. I would like to ask for little help, to check AA artillery guns and numbers: AFAIK Estonian Army had 2 76 mm Vickers (still working), 9 37 mm Rheinmetall (3 for coast defence and 6 in the AA Group) in the June, 1940? No one Molers? And what about 20 mm Madsen, I have read Estonian Army (AA Group) had 8 of them? And when 12 76 mm soviet AA guns were rent?

One more question - one russian researcher said 37 mm anti-tank guns Bofors were taken from Estonian Army to 22 teritorial rifle corps. I believe it is mistake and Estonian Army had no one Bofors AT gun?

Tank You in advance

If your questions will be only about Air Defence artillery - there is one more suitable thread for it:
http://www.militaar.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=225590

Many of your questions are already answered there, but onfortunately in Estonian

Thank You.
Don't worry about me, Estonian is not so dificult read as Chinese

And about Bofors there is also some small thread
http://www.militaar.net/phpBB2/viewtopi ... fors+kahur

Those were of course 40 mm and AA, not AT

Actually, I distinguish the "tankitõrjekahurid" from the "õhutõrjekahurid"
And know well the caliber of the 37 mm Bofors AT gun too.

After reading of the Mika Raudvassar's article still don't understand were the 75 mm Krupp guns brought to Estonia in 1940 or only Carl Zeiss equipment was brought?May I ask for translation:
"Samal ajal saabusid Carl Zeissilt juba 75 mm Saksa
kahurid koos kahe tulejuhtimisseadmega Wikog 9a, mille kaasautoriks
võis olla insener Papello."

Interesting, how good was the Papello constructed equipment if compare it to Geman equipment, or to USA "Sperry"?

Thank You

Simply the 40 mm AA were only Bofors guns what Estonia had. AT guns were German one's.

Estonia bought from Germany full set of AA guns - 20 mm, 37 mm, 75 mm and Wikog devices for 75 mm. Not all the stuff was delivered. 75 mm guns and Wikog devices were delivered in May and June 1940 respectively. Raudvassar also state, that author for the device could be Karl Papello, Estonian engineer who earlier was working on similar projects in Estonia, but for this time already had left to Germany and worked for Carl Zeiss.

I have read about Papello before, but didn't remember when he moved to Germany.
I know about 37 mm Rheinmetall AT guns in Estonian Army service too. Just I read russian article about 22nd Teritorial Rifle Corps (TRC) and found mentioned 37 mm Bofors instead of Rheinmetall AT guns.

Almost all types artillery guns from Lithuanian Army were taken to the 29th TCR. I was suprised when I didn't find in the list of the Estonian TCR 37 mm AA and, now, 75 mm German made AA guns. Where they could gone?
May be somebody can direct to Estonian sources about armament of the 22nd TCR?

Otherwise, only more 120 20 mm automatic guns from 300 were taken to 29th Lithuanian TCR from the Lithuanian Army, so other somewhere had gone too.

One more time thanks for Your time Toomas

Well, if you also will manage with some Spanish - here is the brief description, technical data and couple of bad quality photos of Argentina's Wikog 9 SH.
http://www.zonamilitar.com.ar/foros/tec ... post968238

Estonians had a bit earlier version of same model.

Best article about Papello (what I have found so far):
http://muuseum.viljandimaa.ee/aastaraam ... raudla.pdf

In this article is mentioned same info what I found also by myself in some Russian PVO Internet site - at least four ex-Estonian Krupp 75 mm guns and 1 Wikog were 1941 near Moscow in some PVO techical center. Guns and systems were mentioned because they were used for first Soviet radar-guided gun experiments.

An invaluable information. Hope I could to pay You back someday

Ma olen tükk aega üritanud sotti saada, mis relvad need 150tk 20mm õhutõrjekahurit võisid olla, mis 1939 aasta suvel võisid Eestisse sattuda.

Kas võib äkki olla, et need polnud üldse Oerlikonid, vaid tegemist oli 1939 aastal Leedukate poolt ostetud Saksa päritolu 2 cm Flak 30-tega. Leedu neid millalgi 39. aastal täpselt 150 tükki ostis aga äkki olid Memeli okupeerimise tõttu suhted Saksamaaga piisavalt halvad, et ost tehti varjatult läbi vahendajate ja relvad laevatati kattevarjuks esialgu hoopis Tallinna?