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    Anti-aircraft warfare is the counter to aerial warfare and it includes "all measures designed to nullify or reduce the effectiveness of hostile air action"...
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  • List of anti-aircraft weapons. See also anti-aircraft warfare. Air Defense Anti-Tank System (ADATS) Oerlikon AMADS – Advanced man-portable air defence...
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    Aerial warfare is the use of military aircraft and other flying machines in warfare. Aerial warfare includes bombers attacking enemy installations or a...
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  • anti-surface role. Anti-aircraft warfare (AAW) is typically defensive in nature, protecting the ship and other friendly ships against both aircraft and...
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    Principal Anti-Air Missile System (PAAMS) is a joint programme developed by France, Italy, and the United Kingdom for an integrated anti-aircraft warfare system...
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    Anti-surface warfare (ASuW or ASUW) is the branch of naval warfare concerned with the suppression of surface combatants. More generally, it is any weapons...
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    An anti-submarine warfare carrier (ASW carrier) (US hull classification symbol CVS) is a type of small aircraft carrier whose primary role is as the nucleus...
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    Super Hornets. In addition to their aircraft, the vessels carry short-range defensive weaponry for anti-aircraft warfare and missile defense. The unit cost...
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  • An electronic-warfare aircraft is a military aircraft equipped for electronic warfare (EW), that is, degrading the effectiveness of enemy radar and radio...
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  • system (C-UAS) Anti-aircraft warfare § AUDS Electronic beam Directed-energy weapon, planned to also be used against drones Laser weapon: Anti-drone systems...
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    carrier group, primarily for anti-submarine warfare (ASW), with point-defense anti-aircraft warfare (AAW) missiles and limited anti-ship capabilities. Two dozen...
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    the tank-mounted gun, anti-tank guns and anti-tank grenades used by the infantry, and ground-attack aircraft. Anti-tank warfare evolved rapidly during...
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    destroyer whose primary armament is guided missiles so they can provide anti-aircraft warfare screening for the fleet. The NATO standard designation for these...
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    features several capabilities - including anti-surface warfare (ASuW), anti-aircraft warfare (AAW), anti-submarine warfare (ASW) and low radar observability....
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    (1920–1941). Board of Admiralty, Admiralty Naval Staff, Gunnery and Anti-Aircraft Warfare Division (1941–1964) ADMIRALTY ADMINISTRATION. London, England:...
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    Yaroslavl Higher Military School of Anti-Aircraft Warfare (Russian: Ярославское высшее военное училище противовоздушной обороны) is Russian higher military...
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    co-ordinates for a target registered by firing. Predicted fire is also used by anti-aircraft guns, using a device called a predictor or director to compute a firing...
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    Anti-submarine warfare (ASW, or in the older form A/S) is a branch of underwater warfare that uses surface warships, aircraft, submarines, or other platforms...
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    search-and-attack unit (SAU) missions and coordinated anti-submarine warfare operations with naval aircraft. They were also designed to provide secondary duties...
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    major upgrade programme in the 1990s overhauled them for area-wide anti-aircraft warfare with the installation of a vertical launch system for Standard SM-2MR...
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    to fulfill the anti-aircraft warfare role with surface-to-air missiles, anti-surface warfare with Exocet missiles, anti-submarine warfare with hull mounted...
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    They were also equipped for anti-surface warfare, while having anti-aircraft warfare point defences. This class of ship was one of the last to be constructed...
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  • Weapons Tight is a NATO brevity code "weapon control order" used in anti-aircraft warfare, imposing a status whereby weapons systems may only be fired at...
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    with ground-to-air artillery fire, and thus a crucial moment in anti-aircraft warfare. As the stalemate developed on the ground, with both sides unable...
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    C-RAM (category Anti-aircraft warfare)
    defense against anti-ship missiles and other precision guided weapons. However it can also be employed against fixed or rotary wing aircraft, ships and other...
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    Corps of Army Air Defence (AAD) about the air defence systems and anti-aircraft warfare. Besides the army personnel, the college also trains personnel from...
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    Industry Partners are participating in the project. It is designed for anti-aircraft warfare and neutralising low altitude aerial threats at short ranges. Adani...
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  • Cooperative Engagement Capability (category Anti-aircraft warfare)
    in the early 1970s. The concept was originally called Battle Group Anti-Air Warfare (AAW) Coordination. The first critical at-sea experiment with a system...
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    to conduct anti-aircraft warfare with Aegis and surface-to-air missiles; tactical land strikes with Tomahawk missiles; anti-submarine warfare (ASW) with...
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    aircraft designed to operate for long durations over water in maritime patrol roles — in particular anti-submarine warfare (ASW), anti-ship warfare (AShW)...
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