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8.8 cm Flak 16

8.8 cm Flak 16 is an anti-aircraft gun.

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Authority records

The identifiers under which 8.8 cm Flak 16 may be traced in institutional catalogues.

8.8 cm Flak 16 is established in the international name authorities as Wikidata Q23002677.

Literature

4 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.

En adviser ready to 'face flak', Nursing Standard, 1988. Resistance of Various Proposed Components of Flak-Curtains to Perforation by Flak-Simulating Projectiles, 1944. OSINT-based analysis of weapon components, optical systems, ammunition, and ballistic performance of the German 8.8 cm FlaK family, Defense and Security Studies, 2026. flak, n., Oxford English Dictionary, 2023.

Scholarly footprint

Bibliographic registers publish measured figures for this heading: 4 language editions of the general reference literature carrying an article (Wikimedia (language editions)). A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.

Evidence base

This article draws on 2 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 2 means 2 genuinely separate publishers of record. 16 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.

Connections

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Broader subject

  • anti-aircraft gunTerminology

    Established from a fact already recorded on a verified source.

Sources

Each source is named with the standing the house places on it, so the evidence can be weighed rather than taken on trust.

  1. 1.

    En adviser ready to 'face flak', Nursing Standard, 1988

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  2. 2.

    flak, n., Oxford English Dictionary, 2023

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  3. 3.

    OSINT-based analysis of weapon components, optical systems, ammunition, and ballistic performance of the German 8.8 cm FlaK family, Defense and Security Studies, 2026

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  4. 4.

    Resistance of Various Proposed Components of Flak-Curtains to Perforation by Flak-Simulating Projectiles, 1944

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  5. 5.

    Wikidata, structured authority record Q23002677: 8.8 cm Flak 16

    reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikidata

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  6. 6.

    “8.8 cm Flak 16”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading

    reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikipedia

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