Supersonic shrapnel tore through the wing and left it resembling what an Airbus official has described as anti-aircraft fire. ❋ Unknown (2012)
Meanwhile, Defense Secretary Gates and other U.S. military leaders have quite rightly thrown cold water on the prospect of any significant Western military intervention, including a "no fly zone," which, as U.S. military leaders have rightly pointed out, would not simply be a matter of waving your magic wand and saying "no plane flying for you," but would require bombing Libya's extensive anti-aircraft missile capabilities in order to let U.S. planes own the sky. ❋ Robert Naiman (2011)
I found pictures of my stepfather standing in front of an anti-aircraft gun, on the mess deck with his buddies, and sitting on his bunk. ❋ Jack Canfield (2011)
In terms of the German Military, especially of the Luftwaffe, Flak88 is more like to refer to the 88mm flak guns (88 Flak 18, 88 Flak 36, 88 Flak 37, 88 Flak 41 in their more formal designations) which were a superior weapon from the German arsenal (worked as well as an anti-tank gun as an anti-aircraft gun). ❋ Unknown (2010)
Rebels swept into the city and hauled away a captured rocket launcher and a dozen boxes of anti-aircraft ammunition, adding to their limited firepower. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Military trucks and weapons like anti-aircraft guns were concealed in some instances with tree branches and brush. ❋ Sam Dagher (2011)
Israel believes Hamas now has rockets capable of striking as far as Tel Aviv, some 50 miles 80 kilometers north of Gaza, as well as anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles it did not possess during the war. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Trained rebels flew through the checkpoints in pickups mounted with anti-aircraft weapons. ❋ Unknown (2011)
An Associated Press reporter, who was escorted with other journalists into the city on Friday, said the city was clearly in government control, with Libyan soldiers manning tanks and trucks mounted with anti-aircraft guns. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Kandahar airport, where once Taliban soldiers had shown off their anti-aircraft missiles to members of the international media, was now a vast U.S. base housing thousands of soldiers, as well as a twenty-four-hour coffee shop, a North Face clothing store, a day spa, and a PX the size of a Walmart. ❋ Peter L. Bergen (2011)
That cable had described the “thunder of bombings” on the outskirts of Cairo, and the “continuous rattle of anti-aircraft fire.” ❋ David A. Nichols (2011)
Next to him, 21-year-old engineering student Mohamed Abdelghadi sat atop an anti-aircraft gun that he said he only learned how to operate four days earlier. ❋ Yaroslov Trofimov (2011)
Later in the day, other rebels drove around and around a traffic circle, jubilantly firing an assortment of weapons in the air — anti-aircraft weapons, AK-47s, RPGs. ❋ Unknown (2011)
On Saturday, a NATO airstrike hit a rebel position near Brega, killing 13 rebel fighters, after NATO mistook celebratory rebel fire for anti-aircraft guns, according to rebel officers. ❋ Charles Levinson (2011)
On Monday, rebels held positions at the western gates of the city, on the fringes of desert littered with bullet casings, scraps of metal and more than a dozen blackened or overturned vehicles, including tanks and pickups outfitted with anti-aircraft guns. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Against orders, they flew a retaliatory mission against the Taliban and captured an anti-aircraft gun that militants had used to shoot down their friend's helicopter. ❋ Tom Wright (2011)
Ragtag rebel militiamen cruised the streets in pickup trucks with mounted anti-aircraft guns, unloading random volleys into the sky whenever they thought they spotted government aircraft. ❋ Yaroslov Trofimov (2011)
Nato said the targets it had struck in and around Tripoli included six command and control centres, two anti-aircraft guns, a radar system and a vehicle storage facility. ❋ Unknown (2011)
