Translation for 'anti-aircraft' from English to Russian
военно
зенитная артиллерия {ж}
anti-aircraft artillery <AAA>
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Translation for 'anti-aircraft' from English to Russian

anti-aircraft artillery <AAA>
зенитная артиллерия {ж}военно
Usage Examples English
  • The Self-propelled anti-aircraft weapon debuted in WWI.
  • With the development of effective anti-aircraft artillery in the period before the Second World War, military pilots, once the "knights of the air" during the First World War, became far more vulnerable to ground fire.
  • British fighters destroyed some V-1 "buzz bombs" in flight, although concentrated barrages of heavy anti-aircraft artillery had greater success.
  • Mathematician George Stibitz of Bell Telephone Laboratories used the word "digital" in reference to the fast electric pulses emitted by a device designed to aim and fire anti-aircraft guns in 1942.
  • From this point on, US cruisers primarily served as anti-aircraft escorts for carriers and in shore bombardment.

  • Four former Blue Angels pilots have been killed in action or died after being captured, all having been downed by anti-aircraft fire.
  • s aircraft did locate and report some German light cruisers just before 15:30 and came under anti-aircraft gunfire but attempts to relay reports from the aeroplane failed.
  • The Turkish Navy made only minor improvements to the ship in the interwar period, which primarily focused on repairing wartime damage and the installation of new fire control systems and anti-aircraft batteries.
  • With the advent of powered flight at the start of the 20th century, artillery also included ground-based anti-aircraft batteries.
  • An anti-aircraft vehicle, also known as a self-propelled anti-aircraft gun (SPAAG) or self-propelled air defense system (SPAD), is a mobile vehicle with a dedicated anti-aircraft capability.

  • The closest the British came to developing an armoured tank destroyer in the vein of the German Jagdpanzers or Soviet ISU series was the Churchill 3-inch Gun Carrier—a Churchill tank chassis with a boxy superstructure in place of the turret and mounting a 3-inch anti-aircraft gun.
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