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English term

flat gun

English to Russian Other Military / Defense
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Standing just 500m away from the bottling plant are the rajamaki towers. Each was built to hold an anti-aircraft or flat gun, capable of unleashing deadly fire upon approaching enemy aircraft. A flat gun is simply an artillery piece, which is made with a high elevation on the barrel to bring aircraft down. It will shoot a shell high into the air, that shell will burst near the aircraft, hopefully, and the bursting fragments will bring an aircraft down.

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зенитная пушка

Наверно, там опечатка - "flak gun"

https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Visit/Museum-Exhibits/Fact...
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agree mk_lab
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agree Michael Volia
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agree DTSM
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зенитное орудие

Здесь явно ошибка. Должно быть: flak gan (= anti-aircraft gun). flat gun = flat-trajectory gun - это орудие с настильное траекторией. В деревне Раямяки (Финляндия) находился завод по производству коктейлей Молотова. Наши его бомбили. Для защиты завода с воздуха были построены две наблюдательные (зенитные) башни (flak tower), на которых были размещены зенитные орудия. См. ссылку.
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...and together they funded two concrete towers that would house 40mm Bofors Anti-Aircraft guns...

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