anti-aircraft gun

A stationary, emplaced weapon system designed to shoot down aircraft. It may consist of an artillery like the 8.8 cm Flak, or mounted machine guns like the ZPU series.

Somewhat different from similar-looking anti-tank gun because they are often depicted pointing upwards, showing their capability of high degree elevation.

For the mobile, land vehicular counterpart which has its gun design integrated instead of being mounted on a regular vehicle, use self-propelled artillery or self-propelled anti-aircraft weapon instead.

Examples

Two-barrelled ZPU-2 mounted on a pickup truck (technical).

Four Browning M2s.

8.8 cm Flak

See also

• anti-aircraft missile
• flak
• manually-operated mounted gun
• List of Weapons

External links

• Wikipedia: Anti-aircraft warfare

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