"Flaming Onions" Topic
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| WarpSpeed | 16 Mar 2019 7:24 p.m. PST |
In the old TSR Dawn Patrol they make reference to German anti aircraft guns nicknamed flaming onions.Was this an effect of an HE shell or a specific gun type …its bothered me since 1987. |
| khanscom | 16 Mar 2019 8:13 p.m. PST |
From the TSR rulebook for "Fight in the Skies" (pretty much a duplicate of the earlier Guidon Games "Fight in the Skies"): "The German "flaming onion" is a rapid- fire light flak gun that uses tracer ammunition to give it its unusual name among Allied pilots." |
| Trierarch | 16 Mar 2019 11:28 p.m. PST |
Wikipedia has it as a 37mm revolver cannon and says its a smoothbore flare launcher. I do wonder if it is a derivative of the Hotchkiss anti-torpedo boat gun of the later 19th century
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 Doctor X  | 17 Mar 2019 1:58 a.m. PST |
Its late and I'm going from bad memory but I recall my research determined it was a 37mm gun with a 100 round drum. If you search around you'll find some pictures. |
| bsrlee | 17 Mar 2019 7:59 a.m. PST |
British pilots reported 'Flaming Onions' when attacking Taranto in Italy during WW2. I'd be guessing it was a 37-40mm pompom round, probably an incendiary that did not rely on a fuse but burnt continually in flight. And yes, the Italian Navy used Vicker's 40mm pompom's through WW2. In WW1, the German Army had 1pdr (37mm) pompoms under the name Flak M14. |
| pvernon | 17 Mar 2019 3:56 p.m. PST |
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