What is anti air emplacements?

Destroy the Anti-Air Emplacements was a mission conducted by the private military group Militaires Sans Frontières early in 1975, at the backing of the United States military’s Joint Chiefs of Staff.

What are anti aircraft guns called?

Anti-aircraft missiles are variously called surface-to-air missile, abbreviated and pronounced “SAM” and surface-to-air guided weapon (SAGW).

How does anti aircraft guns work?

Anti-aircraft and other artillery rounds typically consist of an outer shell packed with a large amount of high explosives. These explosives are relatively stable, and require the activation of a fuse to detonate.

What are attack helicopters called?

Attack helicopters’, also known as helicopter gunships, main purpose is to fire on the enemy. To achieve this purpose, attack helicopters are capable of reaching high speeds and are well-armed with an array of weaponry such as machine guns, missiles, and auto-cannons.

What is a AA shell?

Grades of Shell Eggs. U.S. Consumer Grade AA (at origin) shall consist of eggs which are at least 87 percent AA quality.

Is flak a Scrabble word?

Flak is valid Scrabble Word.

How do you defend a castle from enemy attacks?

Smoke bombs and/or smoke-producing apparatuses to obscure the castle from overhead, bolas or razor wire launchers for area denial, and maybe even tethered balloons with marksman teams to negate the inherent height advantage (though how you’d go about protecting the tethers or the balloons themselves is another matter)

Where did the term ‘air defence’ come from?

The term air defence was probably first used by Britain when Air Defence of Great Britain (ADGB) was created as a Royal Air Force command in 1925. However, arrangements in the UK were also called ‘anti-aircraft’, abbreviated as AA, a term that remained in general use into the 1950s.

What was the first ever anti-aircraft operation?

Turks carried out the first ever anti-aircraft operation in history during the Italo-Turkish war. Although lacking anti-aircraft weapons, they were the first to shoot down an aeroplane by rifle fire. The first aircraft to crash in a war was the one of Lieutenant Piero Manzini, shot down on August 25, 1912.

How is ground-based air defence deployed?

Ground-based air defence is deployed in several ways: Self-defence by ground forces using their organic weapons, AAAD. Accompanying defence, specialist aid defence elements accompanying armoured or infantry units.