Odd you didn't include
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Nevertheless, as the Sd.Kfz 234/1 (as the new car was classified) was mainly designed for reconnaissance, .....
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but then it tends to not support the argument we should be treating this as a combination recce car and Flakwagon
or on another site
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Armored cars' role was to protect the crew from small arms fire during reconnaissance missions, not engaging with enemy.
Using high explosive ammo the 20 mm autocannon was highly effective against infantry and unarmoured vehicles. Great success was also achieved by replacing the regular armour-piercing explosive ammunition with an early version of APDS, but this ammunition was in chronically short supply
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no mention anywhere of those vehicle being used seriously for AA except on that model website and then only that a "requirement" of their design was AA capabilty. I'm sure if we dig into every vehicles "requirments" when it went to the drawing board we'd find things it never was really used for in reality
But then this is typical of the posts you make looking for any exception to prove your point
98K's undoubtedly were used to shoot at aircraft . There is a photo of a British infantryman pointing his Enfield skyward at Dunkirk and firing at diving Stukas and there's a story from Pearl Harbour about a sailor firing a rifle at a Japanese aircraft and detonating the bomb it was carrying. Shall we include rifles as AA capable as well ?
Don