It's generally an artillery gun designed to fire shells straight forward into the sky to shoot down aircraft. The shells generally exploded next to enemy planes. German AA guns shot down over 37,000 Allied bombers.
Anti aircraft shells have flack or pieces of metal material when they explode this material flys out in many directions something similar to a fragmentation grenade
The Battleship Bismarck was launched in 1939. It had 12 anti-aircaft guns, 8 15 inch SK/C guns, 2 super firing turrets, 12 L/55 guns, 16 L/83 guns, and a catapult.
In the air with planes and anti-aircraft guns.
50 cal anti-aircraft
US Navy: Battleships (14" & 16" guns), Aircraft Carriers (Fleet, Light, Escort), Cruisers (Large 12" guns, Heavy 8" guns, Light 6" guns), Destroyers (5" guns), Destroyer Escorts (3" & 4" guns), Submarines (SS and Gato class).
They were called dogfights.
The root word "anti" means against, so this term means anything that repels aircraft. The anti-aircraft guns drove the enemy planes away.
They are known as anti-aircraft guns.
Actually, it is not really called anti-aircraft. It is Anti-Aircraft Artillery, which is the name of artillery (guns) that are designed to destroy aircraft.
Machine guns in fighter and bomber aircraft, bombs in the Luftwaffe aircraft and anti-aircraft guns in Britain.
Bofors 40MM anti-aircraft guns were produced by the Swedish Firm of BOFORS.
The Battle of Britain was an air battle, so mainly aircraft, radar and anti-aircraft guns.
They Immediately went to their fighter planes and anti aircraft guns.
anti aircraft guns
To shoot down the enemies airplanes by using bullets or another thing called flak.
Certainly Japanese surface guns used dyes for each individual ship to spot its own fall of shot but I know of no instance where they were used in anti-aircraft shells.
Guns are good for close work, guided missiles are good for long range targets.
The only guns used at Midway were anti-aircraft guns and guns from torpedo bombers, dive bombers, and fighter planes. Midway, like the Battle of Coral Sea before it, were strictly "naval AIR battles."