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Italo Balbo
Italo Balbo , 1896-1940, Italian Fascist leader and aviator. After serving in World War I, he joined the Fascist movement and in 1922 was one of the four top leaders of the March on Rome, which brought Mussolini to power. A general of the Fascist militia, he held several cabinet posts and was (1929-... Read more
cruiser
cruiser large, fast, moderately armed warship, intermediate in type between the aircraft carrier and the destroyer. During World War II, battle cruisers operated as small battleships, combining in one vessel maximum qualities of gun caliber, armor protection, and speed. Upon the retirement of the ... Read more
destroyer
destroyer class of warship very fast relative to its length, generally equipped with torpedos, antisubmarine equipment, and medium-caliber and antiaircraft guns. The newest destroyers are equipped with guided missiles as their chief offensive weapon. The destroyer, originally called the torpedo-boa... Read more
artillery
artillery originally meant any large weaponry (including such ancient engines of war as catapults and 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 veloci... Read more
battleship
battleship large, armored warship equipped with the heaviest naval guns. The evolution of the battleship, from the ironclad warship of the mid-19th cent., received great impetus from the Civil War. By 1872 the French were building iron and steel warships, and in 1876 the British started constructio... Read more
searchlight
searchlight device, usually swiveled, using a lens and reflecting surface to direct a powerful beam of light of nearly parallel rays. In 1892 such apparatus was used along the English Channel in coastal defense and later, in the South African War, as an aid to infantry movement. It was also used to... Read more
James Alfred Van Allen
James Alfred Van Allen 1914-2006, American physicist and space scientist, Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. A graduate (Ph.D 1939) of and professor of physics (1951-85) at what is now the Univ. of Iowa, where he was an influential teacher, Van Allen discovered what are now known as the Van Allen radiation belts... Read more
Benedict XVI
Benedict XVI 1927-, pope (2005-) and Roman Catholic theologian, a German (b. Marktl am Inn, Bavaria) named Josef (or Joseph) Alois Ratzinger; successor of John Paul II . He entered the seminary in 1939, but his training was interrupted by World War II. Drafted (1943) into the antiaircraft corps an... Read more
drone
drone or remotely piloted vehicle, a pilotless craft guided by remote control. Aircraft, ships, and land vehicles can be designed or outfitted as drones, although underwater vessels—both piloted and pilotless—are usually called submersibles . Small, relatively inexpensive military ... Read more
Afghanistan War
Afghanistan War 1978-92, conflict between anti-Communist Muslim Afghan guerrillas (mujahidin) and Afghan government and Soviet forces. The conflict had its origins in the 1978 coup that overthrew Afghan president Sardar Muhammad Daud Khan, who had come to power by ousting the king in 1973. The pres... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "antiaircraft"

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...
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 ‐...
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...
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...
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...
Destroyers and Destroyer Escorts
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History ...were equipped with dual‐purpose (antiair and antisurface) 5‐inch guns, as well as 40mm and 20mm antiaircraft guns to enhance their survival in a war in which the airplane was demonstrating its ascendancy. Referred to as “...
Heat‐Seeking Technology
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History ...off by the target. The U.S. military has since developed a number of such missiles , beginning with the Sidewinder, an antiaircraft missile successfully tested in 1953 and deployed in 1956. This new missile was quickly adapted for use by the other service...
Navy Combat Branches
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History ...advanced an ambitious program to update the surface navy by a large building program of new ships equipped variously with antiaircraft missiles for the defense of carriers, with helicopters for anti‐submarine work, and with nuclear powerplants...
Vietnam War, U.S. Air Operations in The
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History ...claimed over 900 American aircraft during Rolling Thunder. Most of these aircraft were downed by simple 23–100 mm antiaircraft artillery . The North used high‐altitude SAMs to compel American aircraft to fly low, thereby bringing them...
Lyman Louis Lemnitzer
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...appointments (May 1941-July 1942), by the end of which he was a brigadier general. Having taken command of the 34th Antiaircraft Brigade, his arrival in the United Kingdom saw his planning background and his affiliations catch up to him when Eisenhower...

Dictionary entries related to "antiaircraft"

antiaircraft
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military antiaircraft adj. (especially of a gun or missile) used to attack enemy aircraft.
antiaircraft artillery
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military antiaircraft artillery artillery designed for actively combating air targets from the ground.
Artillery
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...increased during World War I, and antiaircraft units swelled the size of coast artillery...and groups of field, coast, and antiaircraft artillery. They remained separate...interval. Initially most useful in antiaircraft guns, the fuse's adaptation to regular...
Missiles, Military
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...naval barrage rocket; a variety of antiaircraft missiles for air and ground forces...subsonic missile, were also developed. Antiaircraft and antimissile missiles included the...prominent among them were the Soviet SAM antiaircraft missiles massively deployed in North...
ack-ack
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military ack-ack n. 1. an antiaircraft gun or regiment. 2. antiaircraft gunfire: a burst of ack-ack fire. World War II: signalers' name for the letters AA .
M-48
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military ...battle tanks, first produced in 1952 and armed with a 90-mm main gun, a 7.62-mm coaxial machine gun, and a 12.7 mm antiaircraft machine gun on top of the commander's observation dome. Early versions had a top speed of 26 mph and a range of 113 km...
patriot
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military ...or detractors. 2. Patriot MIM-104 trademark a modern surface-to-air missile, first developed in the 1970s as an antiaircraft weapon and adapted in the 1980s to defend against ballistic missiles as well. It was used extensively in the Persian Gulf...
Alabama, USS
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military ...convoys and, in the Pacific, was used to protect U.S. amphibious assault forces and to defend allied carriers with intense antiaircraft fire. The USS Alabama is now located in Mobile and serves as a memorial to all Alabama veterans of World War II , and has...
Sumner class
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military Sumner class a destroyer class developed from the Fletcher class to meet the need for antiaircraft defense. They had the same power plants, but had twin rudders and were slightly longer and wider in the beam. They are sometimes...
flak
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military flak antiaircraft fire. a contraction of the German fliegerabwehrkanone .

Thesaurus entries related to "antiaircraft"

flak
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus flak • noun   1. my aircraft had been damaged by flak synonyms : antiaircraft fire, shelling, gunfire; bombardment, barrage, salvo, volley.   2. informal he has come in for a lot of flak synonyms...
down
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...bust, busted, (gone) kaput, on the fritz, on the blink. antonym: working. • verb informal   1. antiaircraft missiles downed the fighter jet synonyms : knock down/over, knock to the ground, bring down, topple; informal deck...

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Antiaircraft missile defense: past, present and future.
Magazine article from: Military Thought; 7/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...One of the principal elements in this confrontation were at first antiaircraft artillery (AA) forces and assets and now antiaircraft missile forces (AMF) and the antiaircraft missile defense (AMD) system that they put in place. There is...
Principles of building an advanced unified system of antiaircraft missile weapons (armaments).
Magazine article from: Military Thought; 1/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...services and arms, a unified system of antiaircraft missile weapons (armaments)--US...developing and the aspects of advanced antiaircraft missile weapons are based on input...ASOW), protected facilities and antiaircraft armaments proper. According to Russian...
ANTIAIRCRAFT PROPOSED FOR PILGRIM PLANT
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 3/7/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...convinced a group of local citizens that an antiaircraft missile battery is needed to protect...said the agency opposes installing an antiaircraft battery at Pilgrim. An aide to US...Democratic congressman supported posting an antiaircraft missile battery at Pilgrim, but said...
Report Defends U.S. On Afghan Airstrike; Deaths Blamed on Antiaircraft Fire
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 9/7/2002; ; 613 words ; ...Afghanistan was provoked by hostile antiaircraft fire and within the rules of engagement...AC- 130 gunship was initiated after antiaircraft fire erupted from six locations, targeting...coalition forces." Those who fired the antiaircraft guns, the report states, "elected...
Effectiveness of Antiaircraft Missile Defense.
Magazine article from: Military Thought; 11/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...correctly appraise the efficiency of antiaircraft missile defense, select indicators...the most acceptable indicator of antiaircraft missile defense is the probability...with highly efficient multichannel SAM antiaircraft missile defense. How to protect installations...
U.S. Planes Hit Antiaircraft Site in Iraq
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 1/22/2002; ; 540 words ; U.S. warplanes struck an antiaircraft artillery site in southern Iraq...1:50 p.m. EST against an antiaircraft site in Tallil, about 170 miles...on to say that Iraq had fired antiaircraft artillery and surface-to...
American, British Jets Hit 5 Antiaircraft Sites in Iraq; Baghdad Area Bombed in Biggest Airstrike in 2 Years
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 2/18/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...aircraft bombed five radar and other antiaircraft sites around Baghdad on Friday with...described the raid as a response to Iraqi antiaircraft fire in recent weeks against U.S...military was on the verge of linking its antiaircraft command-and- control sites with...
U.S. Planes Traded Fire With Antiaircraft Gunners in Northern Iraq, CBS
Transcript from: CBS Evening News with Dan Rather; 1/29/1999; ; 581 words ; ...RATHER: U.S. planes traded fire with antiaircraft gunners in northern Iraq today in what...answered artillery fire by bombing an antiaircraft site. The skirmish is the latest in...Saddam has tripled the amount of antiaircraft firepower into the no-fly zones...
Iraq's Links to Elite Troops `Degraded'; Losses of Tanks and Troops Less Certain; Antiaircraft Fire Slackens
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 1/30/1991; ; 700+ words ; ...a weak and dwindling response from antiaircraft artillery and missiles. A U.S...missiles . . . are way down, and the antiaircraft artillery is down from what we experienced...undefended by the air force and the antiaircraft artillery." British Group Capt...
RUSSIA: RUSSIA OBJECTS TO KAZAKH PLANS FOR ANTIAIRCRAFT-DEFENSE MODERNIZATION.(Brief Article)
Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database; 1/13/2004; 700+ words ; ...Kazakhstan announced plans to modernize its antiaircraft-defense system with help from the...violate a 1995 CIS agreement on a common antiaircraft system. After President Nursultan...international help in modernizing its antiaircraft defenses, Kazakhstan succeeded in...