antiaircraft gun
Shoots down planes
An antiaircraft gun is a weapon designed to shoot down aircraft, typically mounted on a swivel or turret to track targets across the sky.
These guns range from rapid-fire autocannons to larger artillery pieces, often used in coordinated batteries.
Also called AA gun or ack-ack: The antiaircraft guns opened fire as the bombers approached.
- flakIntense hostile reaction
- ack-ackAntiaircraft gunfire
- artilleryLarge-caliber battlefield weapons
- tracerPath-marking projectile
- tracer roundsProjectiles with pyrotechnic trail
barrage · turret · gunner · gun crew · shrapnel · searchlight · night raid · air raid · battery · gun emplacement · shells · radar · emplacement · muzzle · caliber · ammunition · strafing · blitz
- naval weaponstorpedo, naval guns, cannon, naval mines, gun turret
- ship partshull, keel, deck, mast, bow
- artillerycannons, cannon, howitzers, howitzer, mortars
- coastal defensesseawall, seawalls, sea wall, sea walls, breakwater
- gunnerygunnery, aiming, cannon, firing, gunner
- mounted weaponsgun turret, turret, tank gun, naval gun, ball turret
defensive vs. offensive aerial role
antiaircraft gundive bomber
Steep-descent assault plane
attack helicopter · bomber · gunship · fighter-bomber · AC-130
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