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Anti-aircraft weapons have taken a wide range of forms, from the gun batteries and strategically placed barrage balloons of World War II to today's advanced air-to-air missiles that have the ...
The Indian Army is planning to strengthen its air defense by acquiring 220 new anti-aircraft guns. This decision comes in response to evolving aerial threats, especially from drones and low-flying ...
New Delhi: With the rising use of drones in modern conflicts, the Indian Army is moving to acquire specialised anti-drone ammunition for its current anti-aircraft systems, the Zu 23mm and Shilka ...
These anti-aircraft guns use 23mm armour piercing incendiary tracer and high explosive incendiary tracer ammunition. The hit probability of both the ammunitions are low as the guns are manually ...
At least 38 people were killed after the plane crashed in Kazakhstan. There are early indications that a Russian anti-aircraft system may have struck the Azerbaijan Airlines plane that crashed in ...
World War II saw a great deal of innovation in the area of fighter aircraft design ... the Me-210 boasted two 20 mm MG 151/20 cannons, two 7.92 mm MG 17 machine guns, and two 13 mm MG 131 machine ...
A fine sleet on another freezing night falls on the silhouetted barrel of a Soviet-era anti-aircraft gun mounted on an ancient, battered lorry. These are the men of a mobile air defence unit ...
Screenshot from Telegram of the moment an AZP S-60 Soviet-era anti-aircraft gun self-destructs. The video, which was taken by an observer standing close by, shows the 57mm weapon, which appears to ...
Footage shows Russian forces operating the ZU-23 mobile anti-aircraft guns and targeting the reconnaissance drone. As soon as any aerial object enters the visibility zone, anti-aircraft gunners ...
Ranging from public death by firing squad to execution via anti-aircraft guns, the blood-thirsty madman has been previously criticised by human rights organisations for ordering the death penalty ...
(Cameroon Ministry of Defence) The Bangladesh Army's Adhoc 57 Air Defence (AD) Regiment Artillery test-fired two CS/AA3 twin-barrel anti-aircraft gun systems for the first time during a firing ...