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Antiaircraft   /ˌæntaɪˈɛrkrˌæft/   Listen
Antiaircraft

noun
1.
Artillery designed to shoot upward at airplanes.  Synonyms: ack-ack, ack-ack gun, antiaircraft gun, flack, flak, pom-pom.
adjective
1.
Designed for defense from a surface position against air attack.



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"Antiaircraft" Quotes from Famous Books



... avoiding risks whenever possible, and definitely instructed to save both machines and pilots wherever possible. French pilots, on the other hand, ran all the risks there were, got news of German movements, bombed the enemy, and rapidly worked up a very respectable antiaircraft force which, whatever it may have accomplished in the way of hitting German planes, got ...
— A History of Aeronautics • E. Charles Vivian


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