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Its armour is not enough to protect it from high caliber machine guns and autocannons. Fortunately, due to the thin armour, enemy shells may simply pass through without detonating, only doing minor damage depending on where they hit. However, they will not hold up to a round fired from the main gun of a tank.

They may also prevent damage by shrapnel from artillery barrages that land near, though not directly on your vehicle. When the side skirts are in the up position, they will cover the sides of the exposed crew and gun, offering two layers of 5 mm armour, adding up to a total of 10 mm of armour which can protect you from oncoming machine gun fire. The Versuchsflakwagen does have hull-break, so you have to worry about high caliber HE shells triggering instant destruction of the vehicle. The vehicle is effective both with side skirts up and down and out of the way. After all,'no armour is the best armour'. The VFW has decently high survivability in battle, utilizing its thin armour to great effect. Because of this, this vehicle was given the 8.8 cm Flak 41 as its main and only armament.

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It was introduced in Update 1.87 'Locked On' as a reward in the 'Battlefield Engineer' event.Īlso known as the Grille 10, the 8.8 cm Flak 37 auf Sonderfahrgestell (German: 8.8 cm Flak 37 on special chassis), or the abbreviated technical name Sfl.IVc (Selbstfahrlafette: self-propelled gun mount IVc), was originally developed as a mobile gun platform using 8.8 cm Flak guns.ĭesigned by the Krupp corporation originally as an anti-tank vehicle in 1941, it was realized that by using 8.8 cm Flak cannons, it could achieve not only an anti-tank role but also an anti-aircraft one as well. The Versuchsflakwagen is a premium gift rank III German tank destroyer

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