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anti-aircraft

The weapon directed against airborne aircraft (anti-aircraft artillery, surface-to-air guide weapons, or any type of fire aimed at aircraft).
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The S-400 Triumf long-range anti-aircraft missile system is used to destroy aircraft, winged and ballistic missiles, including medium-range missiles, and may be used to destroy surface facilities.
Around midnight on Wednesday, Indian army personnel in Baramulla town fitted three anti-aircraft guns and deployed a tank in the premises of Baramulla district hospital, causing panic and fear among the patients and doctors.
Foreign-backed rebels have long demanded anti-aircraft weapons to offset the impact of devastating aerial raids by Syrian forces and, since September, also by Russian planes.
Albert, now 90, can clearly remember the anti-aircraft guns being set up in Tile Hill on the night of November 14, 1940, and the chaos that soon followed.
Along with the rare 1943 Panther, one of the Second World War's most feared killing machines, was an anti-aircraft gun and a torpedo, plus other weapons.
An agreement on creation of a united regional system of anti-aircraft defense between Russia and Armenia is being
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