Zoo Flak tower on the map - just for interest sake

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In the battle of Berlin in 1945 there’s a fairly famous photo of 1 end of the Moltke Bridge littered with destroyed (or at least inoperative) Soviet equipment -

And Flak from the Zoo Flak Tower is credited with causing a lot of casualties to Soviet attacks here and Tiergarten.

So where is the Flak Tower?

Well it is in the game - it is at the western end of Tiergrten, and you can see it from hte air - Axis pilots are probably mroe familiar with it since it is somewhere near their spawn/resuppply points -

That’s it directly ahead of me -

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It is a bit more visible on the War Thunder Berlin map, whch many will be familiar with:

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Honestly it would be pretty cool, there were attacks on the flak tower but all of them failed, the Krauts eventually surrender. It would be pretty cool map. I’d think it would have 2, maybe 3 points in the tower. ( First floor, second floor, roof). But the run up to it would be weird, would the Krauts have to defend random ass flak guns in the middle of nowhere?

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Could prove to be a very interesting CQC map

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A Flak Tower like that had a total of 9 levels, 2 sub levels / basement, 6 within the bunker, rooftop.

And to not rely on ingame fly around, here:

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What in the world was thrown at it in the second picture to literally split some huge construction like that in two???

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I believe they used 25 tons of explosives the first time and it failed - 35 tons did the job!

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well they always said bigger is better and it always is correct