2 cm Fliegerfaust

protiletadlový ruční raketomet
German designation : 2 cm Luftfaust
Radius : 22 mm
Barrel length: 1308 mm (this is a bundle of thin-walled discharge tubes)
Weight: 6,6 kg + 2,5 kg 9 missiles in the charging frame
Attack speed : 280 - 310 m/s
Range : 2000 m (500 m range)
Rate of fire: -
Weight of the missile : 0.11 kg
Designer : Hugo Schneider
Manufacturer : unknown, perhaps HASAG in Leipzig


A very interesting gun for one man, designed with simplicity of manufacture and use in mind. It was intended to be used against low flying aircraft. The weapon used modified 20mm cannon ammunition (střelu only). The dose was divided into two salvos with a 0.2s interval, first 4 and then the remaining 5 missiles. Afterčearly 1945, mass production was ordered in many small factories, but the weapon did not reach the arsenal.
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I also found a photo, one is of the gun, the other (same as the one Aubi posted to Fohn's post) is interesting because the guy holding the luftfaust on his shoulder has a holster with a spare cartridge for the gun on the side.
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Also known as another - Fliegerfaust.
The warhead was made of 20 mm fragmentation grenade with a trace. Autodestruction was derived from the tracker. The lighter was type AZ 50.
The weight of the TPH powder charge was 41 grams. Combat charge weight 15 grams. The total length of the rocket without an igniter was 226 mm (11.3 caliber). The rocket was stabilized by rotation - up to 26,000 rpm. The deflection of the nozzles was 45 °. The weight of the rocket was 0.22 kg. The missiles had a large scatter, at a distance of 200 m they flew within a radius of 40 m. Nevertheless, effective combat use was calculated for mass deployment.


Jiří Kroulík, Bedřich Růžička - Vojenské rakety, vydavateľstvo Naše vojsko, Praha, 1985

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I think the problem was rather a small range (effective only up to about 500m).
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2 cm Fliegerfaust - (Ian V. Hogg: Německé tajné zbraně druhé světové války)

(Ian V. Hogg: Německé tajné zbraně druhé světové války)
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I found some additional information.


Before the introduction of Luftfaust, several similar projects arose:
-3 barrel caliber 73 mm
-6 main caliber 30 mm
-7 main caliber 30 mm


None of them got into production.


Luftfaust itself had two versions.
Luftfaust A - 4 barrel, a slightly different design of the missile (not accepted into service)
Luftfaust B - 9 main


The serial order was for 10,000 rocket launchers and 4 million missiles. In 3-4/1945 produced about 100 pieces. 80 pieces were said to have been sent to the Western Front.


Jiří Kroulík, Bedřich Růžička - Vojenské rakety, vydavateľstvo Naše vojsko, Praha, 1985
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In colour.
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Weapons & # 328; was constructed at the direct command of A. Hitler, its development was strictly. classified and so to date there are few written documents & # 367; about her and the memories of the participant & # 269; they are very stingy about information. The basis of the construction were two & # 283; older weapon & # 283; namely "Panzerschreck" and "RZ 65 Rauchzylinder" (air missile). From the first of them was taken firing using an electric current from a generator in the trigger, from the second was the idea of small-rocket missiles. Development was very rapid, with tests taking place when an order was signed in November 1944 and December. the so-called zero series of 10,000 pieces was ordered & # 367; weapons & # 283; and 4 million & # 367; st & # 345; el. Production has been underway since January 1945. According to test & # 367; there was a variance of about 10% of the flight distance of the center, which was considered compliant (especially due to the weapon 's salvo).

The names "Luftfaust" or "Fliegerfaust" are incorrect and misleading, weapons. se & # 345; ejm & # 283; called "Fliegerschreck" but the name given the & # 382; e weapon & # 328; has not become known, and post-publication usually uses incorrect names. The Allies had no idea about the weapon and learned about it and # 382; after being captured by ObLt. Jörg who was responsible for its development at the Waffenprüfamt. A small number of weapons were delivered to troops in the Saarbrücken area in January for combat testing, but the results of these tests are noticeable. they never arrived in the Waffenprüfamt, so it is not known if any text was recorded. According to Jörg, the system should be manufactured by HASAG in Leipzig and HASAY in Altenburg. As far as is known, the Americans obtained several of these weapons with ammunition and tested them.

Weapons & # 328; has been calculated for a minimum of two men, one carrying a weapon. and one refill & # 328; (tray) second mu & # 382; carried the rest of the ammunition, so 7 more magazine & # 367; (The weapon belonged to 8 magazines). Weapons & # 328; It consisted of eight mains which were composed around the ninth main center. into one volume. The bundle was the merger of the first strips of the first sn & # 283; sn & # 283; at the muzzle of the barrel (these were seated in a sheet metal plate), the other two belts carried handles for holding the firing. A simple lock was attached between the first and second belts. The magazine was made up of two round plates with 9 holes that held the missiles in the same arrangement as the launch tubes, the plates were waterproof. sheet metal, in production & # 283; were replaced by ceramics. The missiles themselves were fired electrically and their warheads were fired backwards. which, after two seconds, caused the warhead to explode, was a shrapnel effect as with an anti-aircraft grenade.

P & # 345; ed st & # 345; elbou se zbra & # 328; was removed from the transport packaging, the missile magazine was inserted into it (the front plate was then moved to the rear and was secured to the weapon). ). Weapons & # 328; it is now ready and secured, before being fired, the person puts it on his shoulder and unlocks it with his right hand and presses the trigger. detonates) trigger & # 357; it stretches the pen which then strikes the generator which produces an electrical impulse and detonates after a delay of 0.2 seconds for two seconds. rocket salvos. The blast is split only to reduce weapon oscillation. (Missiles are fired against each other relative to the axis of the weapon). After firing, the empty magazine is removed and another is put on.
Weapons problem & # 283; was relatively & # 283; small enough (up to 500 m) which required the station to let the aircraft approach, however, Due to its small size, it was not possible to equip many weapons with many men. and the effect could be significant for low-flying aircraft if the weapon has been introduced mass & # 283; z & # 345; ejm & # 283; by significantly & # 283; strengthened the anti-aircraft defense of the units.

What weapons? z & # 345; ejm & # 283; The Soviet army, God forbid, also provided information on where there is no information, but one is in the collections of the Central Museum of the Armed Forces in Moscow.


Source: Nuts + Bolts & # 269; Issue 9 "Experimental Flak-Weapons of the Wehrmacht Part 2" published by Heinrich A. Duske in Neumünster in 1989 ISDN not specified.
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Citace - bitaxe :

The names "Luftfaust" or "Fliegerfaust" are incorrect and misleading, the weapon was probably called "Fliegerschreck" but the name did not become known due to the fact that the weapon did not spread and post-war publications usually use incorrect names.


The latest German literature [* 1 *] drawing on the preserved documents for this weapon states that its official designation was Fliegerfaust. Luftfaust was the development name for two different concepts - Luftfaust A and Luftfaust B; Fliegerschreck was a completely different weapon.

Fliegerschreck was the designation of an anti-aircraft set consisting of 8.8-cm-Raketen-Panzerbüchse 54 (Panzerschreck) and special anti-aircraft ammunition for this weapon. The weapon was developed in collaboration with Rheinmetall-Borsig A.-G./Düsseldorf and Deutsche Waffen- und Munitionwerke/Karlsruhe. The projectile worked on a similar principle as an incendiary shrapnel charge to 8.8- and 10.5-cm FLAK. The 174 mm long warhead contained an explosive and incendiary substance and was attached to the original propulsion part of the 8.8-cm-Raketenpanzerbüchsengranate. On the original Panzerschreck were mounted open sights with a reticle set at a distance of 320 m. As suddenly the shooter got a flying target into the field of view of the sight fired. After about 90 m, the projectile fired, while its special shape created in 0.25 seconds a 30 m long cone of shrapnel, which covered a radius of about 15 meters. The attacking aircraft thus flew directly into the cone of shrapnel and due to their large number and high impact speed, it should have been severely damaged, respectively. destruction. 500 test warheads were produced, but the end of the war prevented them from being delivered to the combat unit for testing.


In July 1944, the OKH (Oberkommando des Heeres) commissioned the research and development department of Hugo Schneider (Forschungs- und Entwicklungsabteilung der Hugo Schneider AG/HASAG) to develop an individual's anti-aircraft weapon. Requirements sounded - it will be a weapon without recoil (like Panzerfaust), the weight of the shooting does not exceed 2 kg, the speed of the projectile will be at least 300 m/s, deviation of not more than 10% with the flight distance of the projectile, effective range 500 m, self-destruct projectile after 800 m flight and the possibility of recharging. During development work on the launcher and projectile, the weapon was given the working name Luftfaust A. The basis of the projectile was used projectile 2-cm-Sprenggranate with lighter AZ 48, respectively. later AZ 50A or AZ 50B. Luftfaust A consisted of 4 thin-walled interconnected tubes placed one above the other. The launch was to be performed with the same trigger associated with the target as was used on the Panzerfausts.

During the tests, there was a significant inaccuracy of the weapon and therefore it was used to increase the number of tubes to increase the probability of hitting the target. In addition, HASAG developers have been working to improve missile stabilization. Thus a Luftfaust B composed of nine tubes was created. Training shots were conducted on tethered balloons and it was shown that the dispersion of missiles is nevertheless too uneven and at combat distances (300 to 700 m) disproportionately large. The required deviation of 10% was never achieved, as well as the muzzle velocity was a maximum of 250 m/s, normally 150 m/s. Let me just remind you that a speed of 300 m/s was required! The first 100 pieces of Luftaust B were ready for delivery on January 21, 1945, the problem was the supply of ammunition and magazines. Finally, by the end of April 1945, a total of 80 units had been delivered to the test units. The principle of operation and charging is described in detail by bitaxe. By an entry dated 4 February 1945, this weapon was officially renamed the Fliegerfaust. German perfection could not be ashamed even with the impending defeat, and so even before the weapon was renamed, a typewriter written "Betriebsanweisung für das Gerät Luftfaust" (operating instructions for the Luftfaust device) was created.


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Fleischer, W., Jülch, H .: Deutsche Nahkampfmittel bis 1945, Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 978-3-613-02587-5

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