Argentine Rheinmetall 20 mm Twin Anti-Aircraft Cannon

A captured Air Force Rheinmetall 20 mm Twin Anti-Aircraft Cannon from Goose Green in the Imperial War Museum.

Rheinmetall Zwillingsflak twin-gun anti-aircraft system under development since 1968, designed to match the mission of the low-level air defence units of the German Air Force, i.e. "to engage low and very low approaching enemy aircraft with all appropriate means in time to prevent them from firing their weapons or delivering their ordnance, or at least to prevent them from carrying out an accurate attack on an Air Force installation." The Budget Committee of the Bundestag approved the Zwillingsflak system in December 1969, and serial production began in 1972; the first serially manufactured systems reached units of the Bundeswehr on October 12 of that year. Rheinmetall delivered the last of these systems in 1976. It was used by the Argentine Air Force during the Falklands War. Since 1981, it is used by the Portuguese Army and Portuguese Air Force.

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[seantti]

In Finland we use those bullets in rifle, so why you cald that is a cannon?

[izkormvach]

@seantti If you go for a moose with your 20 mm rifle, your wife will be angry ,why are you returning empty-handed ha ha!Just a joke, I suppose it's a large caliber sniper rifle like the Croatian RT-20,nicknamed ''the hand cannon''!Regards

[az094267]

WW2 veteran used in Falkland war.

[geoago]

@ArchbishopOfCombat18 Right, one was shot down Certainly, but from 35 mm ......

[ArchbishopOfCombat18]

@geoago 0 Harrier shot down.

[MrSantiagor10]

Son Argentinas...

[antutu2011]

id love to see the canon instead of only its details

[geoago]

2 harrier shoot down......

[nobpopenseason]

well with all the switches and joystick, am I to wonder if there is a pony generator somewhere on that trailer.

Or is this thing dependant on batteries?

[FreeYouBody]

i have fire with one one of these very cool

[Detoyato]

Well... The Solothurn S18-1100 exist... It was designed by Rheinmetall Germany and then produced by Solothurn of Switzerland and was used by a lot of European countries during WWII including Finland.

The Catch is it fired a 20x138.B Cartridge from 5, 10 or 20 round box magazines at 400 rounds per minute. Thats the same round and magazine from the Flak 38 Anti Aircraft gun and its dreaded version.....the Flakvierling 38 quadruple mount.

[BigMek456]

@seantti you cant call a lahti a rifle more a cannon! xD