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Contents 1 Parent topics 2 Subtopics 2.1 AAA types 2.2 Battles involving AAA 3 Other related topics 4 Bot-suggested topics

Parent topics

• Air, artillery and missile defense [r]: An integrated approach to defending surface forces against all types of weapons that fly through the atmosphere or space; a radar may detect artillery shells, helicopters, or missiles, while a close-in gun may shoot down any of them [e]
• Air defense artillery [r]: A combat arms branch of the United States Army, responsible for defending ground forces and the continental United States against aircraft and missile attack [e]
• Cannon [r]: Sizable crew-served weapons, which fire projectiles through a tube called a barrel. [e]
  • Autocannon [r]: A magazine-fed cannon that will load and fire continuously until its magazine is empty. [e]

Subtopics

• Integrated air defense system [r]: An air defense that combines radar, anti-aircraft artillery, surface-to-air missiles, and fighter aircraft, presenting multiple layers of defense under systematic command and control [e]

AAA types

• 20mm antiaircraft gun [r]: A manually tracked piece of anti-aircraft artillery widely used on ships of the U.S. Navy and other navies during World War II. [e]
• 5"-54 caliber gun [r]: Until the introduction of the 5"-62 caliber gun, the primary medium naval gun of U.S. warships after the Second World War [e]
• 88mm gun [r]: A high-velocity German cannon of the Second World War, originally developed as anti-aircraft artillery but, as perhaps the classic dual-purpose gun, developing a fearsome reputation as an anti-tank gun; was also used as a tank gun in heavy tanks [e]
• Dual-purpose gun [r]: A artillery piece, now most commonly on ships, which has a sufficiently wide range of aiming angles, fire control, and ammunition that it can engage in two distinctly different type of targeting, such as anti-surface warfare and anti-air warfare, or anti-tank warfare and anti-aircraft artillery [e]
• S-60 [r]: A Soviet 57mm anti-aircraft artillery piece, introduced in the 1950s and replaced by missiles as the division-level air defense weapon. [e]
• ZSU-23 [r]: A Soviet-developed radar-directed 23mm self-propelled autocannon, primarily intended for low-altitude antiaircraft but capable of engaging ground targets; extremely widely deployed [e]

Battles involving AAA

• Battle of Britain [r]: Those German offensive air strikes, and British defense, with which the Germans had intended to establish air supremacy for their proposed invasion of Britain [e]
• Battle of Los Angeles [r]: Peculiar occurrence of wartime hysteria experienced by the City of Angels in the early hours of February 25, 1942. [e]
• Battle of Na San [r]: A successful yet modest 1952 operation conducted by French paratroopers, who seized a forward base, and, under optimal conditions, formed a rock of a defense against which Viet Minh smashed themselves. It may have set unrealistic expectations for Dien Bien Phu [e]
• Battle of Okinawa [r]: The longest, bloodiest U.S. World War II battle in which the Japanese island of Okinawa was captured in the spring of 1945. [e]
• Battle of Vinh Yen [r]: A battle of the Indochinese revolution, with disastrous results for the Viet Minh, who attacked French positions, without cover, in range of air attack and naval gunfire [e]
• Battle of the Beams [r]: German attacks on Britain after the end of the Battle of Britain. [e]
• Battle of the Philippine Sea [r]: An carrier battle between the U.S. and Japan in June 1944, called the "Great Marianas Turkey Shoot" due to the extremely heavy Japanese aircraft losses, marked the end of offensive Japanese capabilities, and gave the U.S. control of the islands from which the major B-29 bomber offensive against the Japanese Home Islands could be conducted [e]
• Dien Bien Phu [r]: Site in northern Vietnam of a 1954 decisive battle that soon forced France to relinquish control of colonial Indochina. [e]
• Operation DESERT STORM [r]: That part of the Gulf War, beginning with the first air strikes at 02:00 local time, 17 January 1991, until the main ground assault into Kuwait, Operation DESERT SABRE [e]
• Operation ROLLING THUNDER [r]: Initial sustained U.S. air campaign against the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam), based on a controversial model of retaliation and gradually increasing pressure rather than a short and intense campaign intended to destroy, not dissuade and punish [e]
• Operation LINEBACKER I [r]: A U.S. bombing campaign targeted against the specific North Vietnamese infrastructure of the Ho Chi Minh trail, with the operational-level goal of interrupting the supply line to People's Army of Viet Nam conventional troops in the South. [e]
• Operation LINEBACKER II [r]: The most intense air campaign of the Vietnam War, directed against North Vietnam to force it back to the Paris Peace Talks; a peace agreement was signed one month after the start of the 11 days of attacks [e]
• South Vietnam's ground war, 1972-1975 [r]: That period during which South Vietnam fought North Vietnam without the assistance of U.S. ground troops [e]

Other related topics

• Anti-air warfare [r]: In the context of naval warfare, the mission of defending against aircraft and missiles, from platforms under naval command and control, possibly in coordination with other services and possibly defending land as well as sea areas. [e]
• Counter-rocket, artillery and mortar [r]: Military equipment and techniques to detect unguided rockets, artillery shells, and mortar rounds in flight, warn friendly forces that are threatened, and, with new methods, intercept and destroy the projectiles before they can do damage [e]
• Golden BB [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Suppression of enemy air defense [r]: Military actions taken to reduce the effectiveness, or destroy, the radars, radio and other communications links, surface-to-air missiles, anti-aircraft artillery, fighter aircraft and their airbases and command posts of air defense systems [e]
  • Anti-radiation missile [r]: A guided missile that attacks radar transmitters [e]
    • AGM-88 HARM [r]: A specialized anti-radiation missile used by U.S., Italian, and German aircraft to attack air defense radar [e]
    • BaE Systems ALARM [r]: A anti-radiation missile developed by the Royal Air Force, with direct attacks and parachute-borne loiter mode, slower than the U.S. AGM-88 HARM but with more advanced search and suppression capabilities [e]

Bot-suggested topics

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• ALE-47 [r]: An intelligent countermeasures dispenser for military aircraft, which can receive commands directly from warning receivers, and dispense expendable radar and infrared decoys, as well as manage a retrievable decoy towed via an fiber optic cable [e]
• APG-79 [r]: active electronically scanned array radar for the F-18 Super Hornet and EF-18 Growler [e]
• ASQ-213 [r]: A pod-mounted anti-radiation missile targeting system for the AGM-88 HARM, originally for F-16 Fighting Falcon fighters but adaptable to any aircraft with the MIL-STD-1553 electronic interface [e]
• Air warfare planning [r]: The set of doctrines and procedures for carrying out all types of air warfare, as an integrated whole [e]

• Airborne Warning and Control System [r]: An airplane that carries early warning radars, possibly weapons control radars, and communications to link it with combat aircraft and ground facilities. It may have an onboard battle staff, or link to a staff on the ground. [e]
• Aircraft carrier [r]: A warship designed to launch and recover combat aircraft. [e]

• BAR LOCK radar [r]: A Soviet-designed early warning and search radar, equipped with Moving Target Indicator, intended to be at points requiring maximum defense, as part of an integrated air defense system (IADS) and used with individual S-200 (missile)s [e]
• Destroyer [r]: While the definition has evolved constantly, it is a multipurpose surface warship with capabilities against ship, aircraft, submarine, land, and sometimes ballistic missile targets [e]
• Electronic intelligence [r]: Collection and analysis of electronic signals not intended to be intelligible to humans, such as radar or navigational aids [e]
• F-117 Nighthawk [r]: Although it has a fighter designation, actually the first operational stealth light bomber of the U.S. Air Force [e]
• FAN SONG (radar) [r]: Ground-based guidance radar for the first widely deployed Soviet surface-to-air missile, the S-75 Dvina, known in the West as the SA-2 GUIDELINE. While obsolete against a modern enemy, it may be the most widely used air defense radar and missile system. [e]
• Fall of South Vietnam [r]: The result of a series of conventional military actions by the People's Army of Viet Nam, under the direction of the Politburo of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, which led to the dissolution of the Republic of Vietnam and the reunification of North and South Vietnam into the Socialist Republic of Vietnam [e]
• Fletcher-class [r]: A U.S.-designed destroyer of Second World War vintage, armed with 5"-38 caliber guns and anti-aircraft autocannon, torpedoes, and depth charges. More were built than any other type; some served into the 21st century with other navies [e]
• Gulf War, Iraqi integrated air defense system [r]: The combination of doctrine, command and control, radars, fighter aircraft, surface-to-air missiles and anti-aircraft artillery operated by Iraq at the start of Operation DESERT STORM in January 1991 [e]
• Hermann Goering [r]: prominent Nazi politician, effectively #2 in status for most of the war and Commander-in-Chief of the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) during WW II. Sentenced to death by the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg) but committed suicide shortly before execution [e]
• Indochinese revolution [r]: The period, within the Wars of Vietnam, 1858-1987, between which France reasserted its colonial authority over Indochina in 1945, created a proto-state of Vietnam under a provisional government druing which there was increasing insurgency, fought conventionally combat with the Viet Minh starting in 1950, and ended in 1954. The end, militarily, involved the defeat of French forces at Dien Bien Phu and. politically, with the creation of North Vietnam and South Vietnam by the Geneva accords [e]
• Infrared countermeasures [r]: Equipment and flying techniques that can break the lock of a heat-seeking missile on a target aircraft. [e]

• Luftwaffe [r]: The German Air Force, both the current and WWII organization; the current usage includes the forces after German unification [e]
• M61 Vulcan (autocannon) [r]: The first widely deployed electrically-powered, 20mm, rotating-barrel autocannon, used on aircraft and some ground vehicles in the Vietnam War [e]
• Naval guns and gunnery [r]: Artillery weapons on ships, and techniques and devices for aiming them. [e]
• Norbert Wiener [r]: (26 November 1894 — 18 March 1964) American pure and applied mathematician, a founder of cybernetics, and pioneer in the study of stochastic and noise processes, contributing work relevant to electronic engineering, electronic communication, and control systems. [e]
• North American Air Defense Command [r]: The joint Canada-U.S. military organization responsible for aerospace threat warning and defense for North America [e]
• Operations research [r]: A set of quantitative techniques for optimum decisionmaking, often with uncertainty, which were first used to solve military operational problems [e]
• Signals intelligence from 1954 to 1979 [r]: Technology and history of signals intelligence from 1954 to 1979 [e]
• Soviet support for Iraq during the Iran-Iraq War [r]: Soviet technical assistance and sales of military and dual-use equipment, beginning in approximately 1975, to Iraq, and continuing through the Iran-Iraq War; the Soviet Union and France were the leading military suppliers to Iraq [e]
• Surface-to-air missile [r]: A guided missile fired from land or water, to destroy aircraft and possibly missiles; naval versions may have a secondary anti-shipping missile capability [e]
• V-1 [r]: The world's first, if crude, cruise missile used in appreciable numbers in combat [e]
• Vietnam War military technology [r]: Military technology in support of ground operations, including helicopters and air assault, either associated with or introduced in Vietnam, between 1962 and 1975 [e]
• World War II, air war, European Theater strategic operations [r]: Strategic bombing and offensive counter-air in the European theater of WWII, both initiated by the Axis and the Allies [e]
• World War II, air war, Mediterranean and European tactical operations [r]: Following the cancellation of the invasion of Britain, while harassment continued of the British Isles and the Eastern Front, the Germans searched for new opportunities in 1940-1941, finding them in Southern Europe, met, in part, by the invasion of North Africa in 1942, which led to the Italian campaign. [e]
• World War II, air war [r]: Air operations in the Second World War [e]
• World War II [r]: War between the Allies (most notably the UK, US and Soviet Union) and the Axis (principally Germany and Japan) 1939–1945. [e]