FLAK
Anti-aircraft warfare (AAW) or air defence (or air defense in American English) is the counter to aerial warfare and includes "all measures designed to nullify or reduce the effectiveness of hostile air action". It encompasses surface-based, subsurface (submarine-launched), and air-based weapon systems, in addition to associated sensor systems, command and control arrangements, and passive measures (e.g. barrage balloons). It may be used to protect naval, ground, and air forces in any location. However, for most countries, the main effort has tended to be homeland defence. Missile defence is an extension of air defence, as are initiatives to adapt air defence to the task of intercepting any projectile in flight.
Most modern anti-aircraft (AA) weapons systems are optimised for short-, medium-, or long-range air defence, although some systems may incorporate multiple weapons (such as both autocannons and surface-to-air missiles). 'Layered air defence' usually refers to multiple 'tiers' of air defence systems which, when combined, an airborne threat must penetrate to reach its target; this defence is usually accomplished via the combined use of systems optimised for either short-, medium-, or long-range air defence.
In some countries, such as Britain and Germany during the Second World War, the Soviet Union, and modern NATO and the United States, ground-based air defence and air defence aircraft have been under integrated command and control. However, while overall air defence may be for homeland defence (including military facilities), forces in the field, wherever they are, provide their own defences against airborne threats.
Until the 1950s, guns firing ballistic munitions ranging from 7.62 mm (.30 in) to 152.4 mm (6 in) were the standard weapons; guided missiles then became dominant, except at the very shortest ranges (as with close-in weapon systems, which typically use rotary autocannons or, in very modern systems, surface-to-air adaptations of short-range air-to-air missiles, often combined in one system with rotary cannons).
Inevitable
- 2026-02-05T00:00:00.000000Z
Weightless
- 2025-08-22T00:00:00.000000Z
Rewind
- 2025-02-19T00:00:00.000000Z
Rewind
- 2025-02-19T00:00:00.000000Z
Void
- 2025-01-29T00:00:00.000000Z
Void
- 2025-01-29T00:00:00.000000Z
Mirrors
- 2024-11-14T00:00:00.000000Z
Mirrors
- 2024-11-14T00:00:00.000000Z
Sweat
- 2024-07-30T00:00:00.000000Z
Sweat
- 2024-07-30T00:00:00.000000Z
Alive
- 2024-03-21T00:00:00.000000Z
Alive
- 2024-03-21T00:00:00.000000Z
Intentions
- 2023-10-06T00:00:00.000000Z
Got Something
- 2023-06-20T00:00:00.000000Z
Got Something
- 2023-06-20T00:00:00.000000Z
Want You
- 2023-02-10T00:00:00.000000Z
Want You
- 2023-02-10T00:00:00.000000Z
Similar Artists