This mobile anti aircraft weapon was created the German armed forces in 1943 to supply battlefield security for forces at the mercy of sustained attack by enemy planes. The automobile originated, on the basis of the 38T tank framework, of Czechoslovakian start at this time widely employed when the foundation for reconnaissance and mobile artillery devices. The Gepard carried a 2cm cannon, FLAK 38 and even though well armed did not alone deliver the total amount of fire had a need to protect a spot under assault so it had been needed to deploy them in teams for effective defence. Total manufacturing amounted to 140 before manufacture ceased in extremely very early 1944.