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WWI AA Gun Armaments for DPED

Blood_Hawk23

Charter Member
Here are a few AA Guns and AAA armaments for DPED. Most of these are Navel guns but some are for both.
View attachment 77177

Guns covered:

USA
1-pdr (0.45 kg) [1.46" (37 mm)] Mark 10 AA gun 1914-1918
3"/23.5 (7.62 cm) Mark 14 AA gun 1914-1918
3"/50 (7.62 cm) Mark 11 AA gun 1914-1918

Germany
8.8 cm Ubts + Tbts Flak L/30 1914-1918
8.8 cm/45 (3.46") Flak L/45

United Kingdom
0.303" (7.7 mm) Maxim Machine Gun Mark I
VSM 1-pdr (0.45 kg) [1.46" (37 mm)] Mark I
2-pdr [4 cm/39 (1.575")] QF Mark II 1915
Vickers 3-pdr (1.4 kg) [1.85"/50 (47 mm)] QF Marks II
3"/45 (7.62 cm) 20cwt QF HA Mark I 1915
4"/45 (10.2 cm) QF Mark V and Mark XV

Russia
3"/30 (7.62 cm) "Lender's Gun" 8-K 1914/15

Japan
3"/25 (7.62 cm) 8 cm/25 (3") Short Guns 1914-1918
6.5 mm/115 (0.26") 3rd Year Type Kihô [Hotchkiss 6.5 mm Model 1900 machine gun] 1916-1918
8 cm/40 (3") 41st Year Type (Model 1908)

This is just a short list and is mostly light guns. Some may already be part of the original WWI arms template. All of the Navel data was collected from here:
http://navweaps.com/Weapons/index_weapons.htm
 
Here are a few more. Now i haven't done the araments yet. but i'll get done shortly. I think i'll go through them and mark which are FLAK (exploding shell) and which aren't.

Britain
12-pdr [3"/40 (7.62 cm)] 12cwt QF Marks I
6-pdr / 8cwt [2.244"/40 (57 mm)] QF Marks I and II
2-pdr [4 cm/39 (1.575")] QF Mark II

Italy
40 mm/39 (1.575") Vickers-Terni 1915/1917

Russia
40 mm/39 (1.575") Vickers Automatic Model 1914
57 mm/40 [6-pdr (2.72 kg) Hotchkiss guns]
37 mm/30 (1.5") Maxim gun
 
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