These mark the positions of enemy anti-aircraft batteries. From Wordnik.com. [Night Bombing with the Bedouins] Reference
The anti-aircraft guns themselves were placed about 5,100 feet distant. From Wordnik.com. [Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War] Reference
The end of the avenue, I knew, was the target of their anti-aircraft gunnery. From Wordnik.com. [Some Naval Yarns] Reference
Before we had time to answer, the anti-aircraft guns opened up their barrage. From Wordnik.com. [Through St. Dunstan's to Light] Reference
The first Krupp anti-aircraft field-piece was a 6.5 centimetre (2 9/16 inch) arm. From Wordnik.com. [Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War] Reference
I thought of how I might feel if a dozen anti-aircraft guns made us their target. From Wordnik.com. [Some Naval Yarns] Reference
The anti-aircraft missile threat has a strong historical resonance in Afghanistan. From Wordnik.com. [Afghanistan war logs: US covered up fatal Taliban missile strike on Chinook] Reference
This week Russia banned sales of its anti-aircraft missiles system to the country. From Wordnik.com. [Barack Obama makes direct appeal to Israel over settlement building] Reference
Their planes followed a system in this so as to try to avoid our anti-aircraft guns. From Wordnik.com. [In the Flash Ranging Service Observations of an American Soldier During His Service With the A.E.F. in France] Reference
Moreover, but little was known of the range and destructiveness of anti-aircraft guns. From Wordnik.com. [Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War] Reference
The sighting arrangements of these Krupp anti-aircraft guns are carried out upon these lines. From Wordnik.com. [Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War] Reference
American soldiers quickly called in an airstrike but the jets were targeted with anti-aircraft fire. From Wordnik.com. ['We Didn't Have A Chance To Fight Back'] Reference
They are fired upon from below by enemy anti-aircraft guns, and frequently from above by enemy planes. From Wordnik.com. [In the Flash Ranging Service Observations of an American Soldier During His Service With the A.E.F. in France] Reference
The large, low-flying craft were too vulnerable to shoulder-held anti-aircraft missiles, Reimer insisted. From Wordnik.com. [Politics: The Water Walker] Reference
The clouds above belched flashes of lightning in apparent unison with the Hun anti-aircraft batteries below. From Wordnik.com. [Night Bombing with the Bedouins] Reference
He was an Army anti-aircraft instructor during World War II, serving in the United States and the Philippines. From Wordnik.com. [Ralph E. Buckley, Mark E. Hollingsworth die] Reference
Experience has proved that the range of the latest types of anti-aircraft weapons is in excess of anticipations. From Wordnik.com. [Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War] Reference
Later, these or other pilots return to take out one Iraqi command-and-control target for each anti-aircraft incident. From Wordnik.com. [Between The Lines Online: A New Kind Of War] Reference
Surface-to-air strike over Helmand shows Taliban had strong anti-aircraft capabilities earlier than previously thought. From Wordnik.com. [Afghanistan war logs: US covered up fatal Taliban missile strike on Chinook] Reference
He was shot down by anti-aircraft fire in Vietnam and ejected from his F-4C before it crashed into the Gulf of Tonkin. From Wordnik.com. [Obituary: Devol 'Rock' Brett, Air Force general, military consultant] Reference
It is much easier for the Chinese to build an anti-aircraft carrier missile than building an aircraft carrier battle group. From Wordnik.com. [China Working to Counter US Naval Power in the Pacific] Reference
As for our anti-aircraft guns, they've never had the opportunity yet to do anything more than try our nerves by practicing!. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
You may see things shift from command-and-control and surface-to-air missiles to going against troops and anti-aircraft fire. From Wordnik.com. ['This Ship Is A National Asset'] Reference
Benedict was conscripted into the German armed forces at the end of the second world war and was put in an anti-aircraft unit. From Wordnik.com. [Pope pays tribute to Britons who resisted nazism] Reference
The fixed anti-aircraft guns such as are stationed upon eminences and buildings are of the quick firing type, the object being to hurl. From Wordnik.com. [Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War] Reference
The foregoing may be said to represent the most powerful types of mobile anti-aircraft weapons used by the Austro-German forces to-day. From Wordnik.com. [Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War] Reference
Russia's Vedomosti newspaper reported last month that Moscow has sold Azerbaijan the state-of-the-art S-300 anti-aircraft missile system. From Wordnik.com. [Reset the Russian Reset Policy] Reference
The murmuring grew to a roar, accompanied by a deafening din of an Archie (anti-aircraft) barrage and the unceasing rattle of machine guns. From Wordnik.com. [Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry] Reference
The Krupp Company has evolved many designs of anti-aircraft motor-driven guns -- "Archibalds" the British airmen term them with emphatic levity. From Wordnik.com. [Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War] Reference
The Allied forces improvised travelling anti-aircraft offences by mounting the latest types of Vickers, Hotchkiss, and other machine guns in armoured motor cars. From Wordnik.com. [Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War] Reference
Even the aviators do not know the "color of the day" until ten minutes before the start of a raid, neither do the officers in charge of the anti-aircraft batteries. From Wordnik.com. [Night Bombing with the Bedouins] Reference
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