AA guns + rockets alternatives for 1935-45 (1 Viewer)

[tomo pauk]

Some countries made the greater effort, some were barely scratching the surface, while some other pretty much decided that fighters are the better use of resources. Then we have the USA, the only country that was pretty safe from the air attacks (even if their overseas territories sometimes didn't had that luxury). And thus: what plausible changes and improvements should've been introduced by the firearm-making countries in the specified era to improve their ground-based air defences? Before people say 'make VT fuses' etc, please take into account the conditions of a chosen country.

Mostly about the ground-based stuff, but if you want to add about the naval guns, go ahead.

I'll start with Italy and France: actually introduce a modern 37-40mm AA gun for the Armies, even if it is not the 40mm Bofors.

 

[Shortround6]

This covers a very large field.
The US AA guns range from the BAR mounted on a pedestal for defense of trucks (never saw active service or at least combat) to the 120mm AA gun, over 500 made but only 4 (?)went overseas.

Rockets in general turned out to be a bad deal. Rockets as in unguided. Popular for a short time with the British. Not sure if anybody else did much with them.
Guided missiles took until a number of years after the war to actually become effective.

France ran out of time, and manufacturing capability.
And here we have another split.
Defense of armies in the Field or defense of cities and factories. You actually need different guns for best results.