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Meanings of anti-aircraft in English

Intended to attack aircraft.

        Usage of anti-aircraft in English
        1
        It said weaponry, including a vehicle mounted with anti-aircraft artillery, was destroyed.
        The Irish Times
        2
        Bursts of anti-aircraft fire were also heard in Tripoli on Sunday evening.
        Reuters
        3
        Britain, Churchill wrote, needed ships, planes, steel, and anti-aircraft guns and ammunition.
        American-made: the enduring legacy of the wpa : when fdr put the...
        4
        The seamen and petty officer at the anti-aircraft gun left their station.
        Dave Darrin After the Mine Layers; Or, Hitting the Enemy a Hard ...
        5
        The reply of the anti-aircraft guns is feeble, and at night futile.
        Kings, Queens and Pawns: An American Woman at the Front
        6
        Other officers complained of shortages of trucks and tanks and anti-aircraft equipment.
        One minute to midnight: kennedy, khrushchev, and castro on the b...
        7
        C4 explosive and even anti-aircraft missiles were available to the highest bidder.
        Reuters
        8
        Gunmen were seen loading anti-aircraft guns mounted on trucks near the ministry.
        Reuters
        9
        The noise we heard now was merely shrapnel fired by anti-aircraft guns.
        Everyman's Land
        10
        The Siegessäule, colossal buildings and concrete fortresses, sites of Berlin's anti-aircraft defence.
        A writer at war: vasily grossman with the red army
        11
        Residents reported LNA planes buzzing Tripoli as anti-aircraft guns fired at them.
        Reuters
        12
        On the ground you manage anti-tank cannons, anti-aircraft guns and machine-gun nests.
        The Irish Times
        13
        An hour had hardly passed before distant anti-aircraft fire broke out again.
        Combed Out
        14
        But his B-26 was in the crosshairs of the ship's anti-aircraft guns.
        Legacy of ashes: the history of the cia
        15
        Powerful searchlights, and shells from new anti-aircraft guns, played all round them.
        The Mastery of the Air
        16
        On her last day she inadvisedly sat, laughing, on an anti-aircraft gun.
        The Irish Times
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        United States of America
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