What is "antiaircraft"

Usage examples of "antiaircraft".

The antiaircraft gunners at Lae airdrome relaxed when they recognized the airplanes as Zeros.

Yevlenko then took him to an airdrome ringed with antiaircraft batteries that looked like U.

I just bet these Esmeraldans and Perigrinates have some positively spiffy antiaircraft guns.

Then Taegu, Seoul, west to Inchon, then Kaesong and a hard flight northwest to Pyongyang, where the heavy antiaircraft waits.

Shortly after that Wiener, Bigelow, and Rosenblueth embarked on a three-way collaboration to tease out the tangle of physical and neurophysiological factors involved in antiaircraft fire control.

They had freedom of passage everywhere, and one day Milo contracted with the American military authorities to bomb the German-held highway bridge at Orvieto and with the German military authorities to defend the highway bridge at Orvieto with antiaircraft fire against his own attack.

I should, since I was in Orvieto at the time directing the antiaircraft fire.

This was matched by an American snafu when the Tenth Air Force Headquarters sent an antiaircraft battery on the first transports instead of the infantry and food preordered by Merrill and Hunter.

Then he saw scattered black puffs of antiaircraft bursts over Pearl and was surprised to find what seemed to be target practice taking place on Sunday morning.

The TBDs, flat on the water among the antiaircraft bursts and splashes and under the swooping fighters, circled doggedly for a shot at her port beam.

Thompson trophy race, 46 Tojo, Hideki, 186, 305-306, 310, 313 Tokyo, air-raid drill, 139, 159-160, 189, 190-191 air raid on, 16, 56-57, 119, 162-85 antiaircraft defenses, 12, 128, 171- 175, 177-180, 182-185, 188, 190, 191, 195 damage, 202-204 false report of bombing, 132-133 Tokyo Bay, 174-179, 182, 194-197 Tokyo Rose, 11 Toland, John, 186 ToLischus, Otto, 192 Torture of prisoners-of-war, 121, 270-277,336-338 Truelove, Denver V.

After all, how could the United States provide such opposition groups with advanced antitank or antiaircraft weapons, knowing that many would probably find their way into the hands of the Revolutionary Guards--if not Hizballah or Hamas?

They would be big, well-protected facilities with lots of antiaircraft defenses that would take a major effort to destroy.

Caught in one of the whirlwinds, an antiaircraft missile corkscrewed cra-zily and screamed wide of the whizzer.

He waited a few seconds for the antiradar-missile decoys to be ejected, then ordered the Sea Eagle radar reactivated and the antiaircraft guns brought on-line.