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Aircraft artillery was first used for ground attack roles during World War I.A notable user of aircraft artillery was the fighter ace René Fonck. Airships were used with some success, mostly used to harass cities, [1] but after the development of incendiary ammunition they were stopped being used due to the fire igniting the hydrogen used for the Zepplins.
Aircraft artillery has been in use since the first world war. One of the most notable aircraft artillery platforms is the AC130 . List of artillery platforms used on aircraft with a calibre larger than 37 mm .
Aircraft artillery; List of aircraft artillery; 0–9. 75 mm gun M2–M6; B. Rheinmetall BK-5; Bofors 40 mm L/60 gun; Bofors 40 mm Automatic Gun L/70; Bofors 57 mm m ...
A Bofors 40 mm LAA gun crew under training, January 1942. On 1 December 1941, while still at Pembroke, 18th Royal Fusiliers was ordered to transfer to the Royal Artillery (RA) to begin retraining in the light anti-aircraft (LAA) role/ On 30 December it became 100th LAA Regiment, consisting of Regimental HQ (RHQ) and 330, 331 and 332 LAA Batteries equipped with the Bofors 40 mm gun.
Anti-aircraft artillery, under various organisational arrangements including being part of artillery, a separate corps, even a separate service or being split between army for the field and air force for home defence. In some cases infantry and the new armoured corps also operated their own integral light anti-aircraft artillery.
This list of artillery catalogues types of weapons found in batteries of national armed forces' artillery units.. Some weapons used by the infantry units, known as infantry support weapons, are often misidentified as artillery weapons because of their use and performance characteristics, sometimes known colloquially as the "infantryman's artillery" [1] which has been particularly applied to ...
The 103rd Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment (103rd HAA Rgt) was an air defence unit of the British Army's Royal Artillery during World War II.It saw action during the Liverpool Blitz, landed on D-Day and served throughout the subsequent campaign in North West Europe and defended the cities of Belgium against V-1 flying bombs.
The Type 85 anti-aircraft artillery (Chinese: 85式23毫米双管高射炮, industrial designation YW-306) is a 23 mm artillery gun used by the People's Liberation Army of China. It is a copied version of the Soviet ZU-23-2 .