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In WW2 the British created a 25 pounder artillery piece that exclusively served as their divisional artillery and was just about 88mm in caliber, but was only about 30 caliber lengths, still out-ranging German 105mm howitzers though. The German FLAK guns ended up serving as defacto AT and artillery for support of the army, even as it was doing triple duty as a AA piece. What if they turned the regular old 88 FLAK gun into a field gun? It would be like the PAK43, 88mm L43 (derived from the FLAK41 gun), just earlier (say by 1942) and focusing on being an artillery piece with some AT work as needed. It could serve with divisional artillery as a counter battery weapon due to it's long range relative to the standard howitzers and would out range any nation's divisional artillery in WW2, while having the best AT performance of any divisional weapon. ITTL it would replace the PAK43 and PAK44 and PAK40 at divisional level, being both a longer range artillery and AT weapon in the field gun role. It could also be mounted in a Pz IV chassis in a Nashorn/Dicker Max role as a heavy support weapon for artillery and AT work. How would it fair as a dedicated field gun weapon and would it given infantry divisions the punching power they needed to survive in the mid-later war period or would it just be to heavy unless self propelled?
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