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Anti-aircraft warfare is the counter to aerial warfare [1] and includes "all measures designed to nullify or reduce the effectiveness of hostile air action". [2] It encompasses surface-based, subsurface (submarine-launched), and air-based weapon systems, in addition to associated sensor systems, command and control arrangements, and passive measures (e.g. barrage balloons).
3-inch M1918 gun (World War I, interbellum) 3-inch M3 gun (interbellum, World War II) 105 mm M3 gun (interbellum, limited production) 37 mm Gun M1 (some mountings added two .50 cal MGs) (interbellum, World War II) 1.1"/75 (28mm) gun (interbellum, World War II) Bofors 40 mm gun (World War II) 90 mm M3 gun (World War II – 1950s) 120 mm M1 gun ...
Cold War / modern 14.5 2 Type 58 People's Republic of China: Cold War 14.5 2 ZPU-2 Soviet Union: Cold War / modern 14.5 4 Type 56 People's Republic of China: Cold War 14.5 4 ZPU-4 Soviet Union: Cold War / modern 20 Becker Type M2 Germany: World War I: 20 Madsen 20 mm cannon Denmark: World War II 20 Solothurn ST-5 Switzerland: World War II 20
Many of the aircraft listed at that link were not shot down as a result of Cold War paranoia by US or USSR aircrews, but rather direct action by active combatants (for example, the two Air Rhodesia flights). The table lists air combat losses outside of the war zones, such as Korean War or Vietnam War.
World War I World War II 40 1, 2, or 4 Bofors 40 mm gun Sweden: World War II - Korean War - Cold War: 45 1 or 2 45 mm anti-aircraft gun (21-K) Soviet Union: World War II 76.2 QF 3 inch 20 cwt United Kingdom: World War I: 76.2 3"/23 caliber gun United States: World War I - 1920s 76.2 1 or 2 3"/50 caliber gun United States: World War I - World ...
An Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division (Russian: Зенитная артиллерийская дивизия (зенад), romanized: Zenitnaya artilleriyskaya diviziya (zenad)) was a type of Anti-aircraft unit of the Soviet Union's Red Army, Soviet Army, and the Soviet Air Defense Forces (PVO) during World War II and the early years of the Cold War.
Among early pre-war pioneers of self-propelled AA guns were the Germans. By the time of the war, they fielded the Sd.Kfz. 10/4 and Sd.Kfz. 6/2, cargo half-tracks mounting single 20 mm or 37 mm AA guns (respectively). Later in the war similar German half-tracks mounted quadruple 20 mm weapons.
This is a list of aircraft shootdowns, dogfights and other incidents during wars since World War II.An aircraft shootdown occurs when an aircraft is struck by a projectile launched or fired from another aircraft or from the ground (anti-aircraft warfare) which causes the targeted aircraft to lose its ability to continue flying normally, and then subsequently crashing into land or sea, often ...