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Battleships
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History
...effective against both antisurface and antiaircraft targets. Operationally, the early...reconstructed with the most modern antiaircraft armament, radar , and fire control...smaller combatants, as flagships, as antiaircraft escorts for aircraft carriers, and...
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Aircraft Carriers
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History
...numbers of fighter planes, ships, and antiaircraft guns, and insufficient reconnaissance...miles from the carrier. In addition, antiaircraft defenses included twelve 5‐...and destroyers , all bristling with antiaircraft guns, surrounded the carriers in each...
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Army Combat Branches: Artillery
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History
...x2010;propelled field artillery, antiaircraft artillery, and towed and self...World War II, Americans often employed antiaircraft artillery, antitank artillery, and...of artillery; it consolidated its antiaircraft mission with the field artillery in...
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Cruisers
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History
...construction of four ships designed for antiaircraft defense: the Atlanta class (of 6...valuable in a number of wartime missions: antiaircraft escort, shore bombardment, and especially...finished), with a 6‐inch antiaircraft battery, and the Des Moines ‐...
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Detection, Observation, and Fire Control Systems
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History
...technology to its limits. Both the army and the navy developed antiaircraft directors, which tracked airplanes (at first with telescopes...The proximity fuse, developed during World War II for antiaircraft munitions accomplished this control in a single dimension...
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Gaston Thorn
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...also spent some months in a Nazi "correction camp" for having organized a student protest at his school against compulsory antiaircraft drills and the enforced recruitment of Luxembourg citizens into the German army. At the end of the war he studied law at...
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guided missile
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...air missiles, such as the U.S. Patriot missile, operate against aircraft or other missiles. Both types may supplement antiaircraft guns. Air-to-surface missiles, launched by aircraft against ground positions, are generally radio-controlled. Surface...
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battleship
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...decommissioned. The U.S. navy, during part of the Vietnam War, used one battleship, the New Jersey, for shore bombardment and antiaircraft defense. The four Iowa -class battleships were recommissioned in 1980s; all were again decommissioned by 1992. Bibliography...
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artillery
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...battering rams) or war material, but later applied only to heavy firearms as opposed to small arms . Types of artillery include antiaircraft and antitank guns (which fire at high muzzle velocity through long barrels at flat trajectories) and howitzers (with shorter...
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Afghanistan War
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...progressed, the rebels improved their organization and tactics and began using imported and captured weapons, including U.S. antiaircraft missiles, to neutralize the technological advantages of the USSR. In 1986, Karmal resigned and Mohammad Najibullah became...
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