Some German VOMAG buses were converted into platforms and/or transports for the 8.8 cm flak gun. (Budapest1944.)
Posted by GeneralTukker@reddit | shittytechnicals | View on Reddit | 27 comments
wlpaul4@reddit
For when you’re extremely serious about enforcing bus lanes.
RaiseTheBalloon@reddit
I'll take one of each
IronWarhorses@reddit
so the Germans has both Jazz Music and the Magic FLAK Bus. how did they lose the war lol.
IronWarhorses@reddit
Selbstfahrlafette auf Fahrgestell VOMAG 7 OR 660 mit 8,8cm Flak becasue GERMAN.
IronWarhorses@reddit
becasue when you don't have enough petrol for your normal busses might as well make them Flak busses ya?
XtraFlaminHotMachida@reddit
thats actually pretty damn sexy. looks like those random connectable toys from the 80s/90s
Hailfire9@reddit
Yeah, I'm pretty sure I built this out of K'nex when I was 11.
Pale-Tip8863@reddit
Mom can we have archer ? No we have archer at home !
Archer at home:
KeinePanik666@reddit
Very interesting vehicles. In 1940, up to 24 vehicles were probably built. And only used in the I. Abteilung of the Flak Regiment 42. Most of the vehicles were probably destroyed in the battle for Budapest. Here are a few more pictures, the site is unfortunately only available in German, but all known vehicles used by Germany in the war are available sorted by country of origin, manufacturer and model.
Mundane-Contact1766@reddit
It’s is effective?
Traumerlein@reddit
I mean its FLAK on a bus chassie. I see no reason why they woukd be less effective than towed flak aslong as they are being used as intended, ergo as AA
KeinePanik666@reddit
Not much is known about the vehicles except an approximate number and their unit. Since the flak battery was used from 1940 - 1944/45. I guess they had a certain purpose otherwise the vehicles would not have been maintained for so long. However, Vomag was not doing well economically before the war and from 1940 onwards was completely focussed on the production of Sd.KFZ 9 and Panzer 4 so it is possible that no priority was given to the further production of bus chassis
_Inkspots_@reddit
A SPAG technical… interesting.
Le-monk__@reddit
The real struggle bus
damngoodengineer@reddit
You know what? Fuck you.
*flaks your bus
HentaiKi11er@reddit
Flak you
StukaTR@reddit
frak you*
OL-Penta@reddit
Gaijiggles when?
ace0083@reddit
Isn't this in Warthunder?
Der_Krasse_Jim@reddit
I wonder how many times you could fire that before it snaps, but better than nothing i guess
jnievele@reddit
If used as AA, probably quite often, as you'd be shooting up and most of the recoil would go down into the "feet" you see deployed. Those don't look particularly small TBH.
tired_Cat_Dad@reddit
That bus looked cool!
Awkward-Minute7774@reddit
Let's mod a schoolbus into a coolbus!
Artyom1457@reddit
A literal flak bus
Soggy-Avocado918@reddit
I wonder how stable the bus was as a gun platform?
OneFrenchman@reddit
And the reverse after the war, main Opel busses built on the Blitz chassis.
StukaTR@reddit
now that's coachbuilding.