Anti-aircraft warfare
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Anti-aircraft warfare or air defence is the counter to aerial warfare and includes "all measures designed to nullify or reduce the effectiveness of hostile air action". It encompasses surface-based, s
Short- and long-range AA systems used by the Dutch Joint Ground-based Air Defence Command
An Auxiliary Territorial Service spotter with binoculars at an anti-aircraft command post, in front of QF 3.7-inch AA gun (December 1942).
Ballonabwehrkanone by Krupp
Ballonabwehrkanone by Krupp
QF 3.7-inch AA gun
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The QF 3.7-inch AA was Britain's primary heavy anti-aircraft gun during World War II. It was roughly the equivalent of the German Flak 8.8 cm and American 90 mm, but with a slightly larger calibre of
Anti-aircraft warfare
…a new 3.6-inch gun, in 1918. In 1928 a 3.7-inch (94 mm) gun became the preferred solution, but it took six years to gain funding. Production of the QF 3.7-inch gun began in 1937; this gun was used on mobile carriages with the field army and transportable guns on fixed mountings for static positions. At the same…
A 3.7-inch gun on a travelling carriage in London in 1939
A QF 3.7 inch gun barrel being drawn from a furnace in Australia in 1940
A static 3.7-inch gun assigned to the 127th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, mounted on a Pile platform at Orford, Suffolk, October 1944
A 3.7-inch anti-aircraft gun towed by an AEC Matador at Burrow Head, Scotland, early 1944.