{"product_id":"the-flakvierling-sd-kfz-7-1-20mm","title":"The 'Flakvierling' Sd. Kfz. 7\/1 20mm","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy the late war the sky belonged to the Allies, and the German soldier's best answer to it was a hedge of spinning barrels. The 2cm Flakvierling — \"quad flak\" — bolted four rapid-firing 20mm cannon onto one mount, and together they could throw up a storm of shells at a combined rate approaching two thousand rounds a minute. It was built to kill the low-flying fighter-bombers that hunted German columns, filling the air ahead of an attacking plane with a wall of fire. Mounted here on the tracked bed of an Sd.Kfz. 7 half-track, it could keep pace with the army and fight on the move. And when its barrels came down to fire on men instead of aircraft, the effect was horrific — a weapon feared on the ground almost as much as in the air.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eK\u0026amp;C's model is a snow-camouflaged Sd.Kfz. 7\/1, its quad guns elevated to scan the sky, crewed by three gunners in white snow suits — each wearing a red band on his upper left arm. That detail is telling: because German and Soviet troops sometimes wore near-identical winter whites, coloured armbands were used to tell friend from foe at a glance. It anchors the collection's flak sub-cluster with the \u003ca href=\"\/products\/ostfront-skywatcher\"\u003eSkywatcher\u003c\/a\u003e spotting for it and the \u003ca href=\"\/products\/ostfront-vehicle-guards\"\u003eVehicle Guards\u003c\/a\u003e protecting it, alongside the winter infantry of the \u003ca href=\"\/products\/mg34-machine-gun-team-set\"\u003eMG34 Team\u003c\/a\u003e. As the centrepiece of a snowbound diorama, a whitewashed half-track with its barrels raised to the sky is a striking piece.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eModel: BBG132 \/ King \u0026amp; Country \/ 1\/30 (60mm) scale \/ matte finish \/ half-track with three gunners\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"King and Country","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50537060565220,"sku":"BBG132","price":639.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/files\/21777_m.jpg?v=1790281467","url":"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/the-flakvierling-sd-kfz-7-1-20mm","provider":"Breagans","version":"1.0","type":"link"}