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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 .
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 ...
Pages in category "Aircraft artillery" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
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 .
On the same day, 1 July 1997, the flag of the 17th Anti-aircraft Artillery Regiment was transferred from Villafranca to Rimini, where the 17th Anti-aircraft Artillery Regiment "Sforzesca" was formed with the units of the disbanded 18th Regiment [4] [1] [6] On 1 January 2002 the regiment was assigned to the Anti-aircraft Artillery Brigade.
789th Anti-Aircraft Artillery (Automatic Weapons) Battalion was an anti-aircraft artillery battalion of the United States Army during World War II. [1]The 789th AAA-AW BN was created on April 30, 1943 at Camp Stewart.
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.