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• n  artillery designed to shoot upward at airplanes
• s  designed for defense from a surface position against air attack

• Weinberger scraps the controversial antiaircraft gun .
• Whether they have acquired new antiaircraft weapons systems remains unknown.
• The plane then turned toward Aiea, my hometown, hugging the surface of the water to avoid antiaircraft fire.

• antiaircraft gun
• flak
• flack
• pom-pom
• ack-ack
• ack-ack gun

News & Articles

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• U.S. has secretly provided arms training to Syria rebels since 2012
  CIA agents and special operations troops have trained the rebels in anti-tank and antiaircraft weaponry in Jordan and Turkey. WASHINGTON — CIA operatives and U.S. special operations troops have been secretly training Syrian rebels with anti-tank and antiaircraft weapons since late last year, months before President Obama approved plans to begin directly arming them, according to U.S. officials ...
  June 22, 2013 - Los Angeles Times
• U.S. secretly training Syrian rebels, officials say
  Courses in the use of antiaircraft weapons are taking place at U.S. bases in Jordan and Turkey.
  June 22, 2013 - Portland Press Herald

Quotes

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• Vladimir Putin in New York Times
  The missiles we are providing to Syria are short-range antiaircraft missiles that cannot reach Israeli territory,Mr. Putin said. "To come within their range, you would have to attack Syria."
• Mark Regev in International Herald Tribune
  It's a sign of things to come and an issue of great concern,Regev said. "These rockets are not homemade and are smuggled in, and our concern is not one or two Katyushas, but a whole range of weapons, including antitank and antiaircraft...
• Joe Lieberman in IPS
  Specifically, the Georgian military should be given the antiaircraft and antiarmor systems necessary to deter any renewed Russian aggression,wrote independent Democrat Joe Lieberman and Lindsay Graham, in the Wall Street Journal late last month.