The M16 halftrack and its M45 Quadmount were designed to defend airfields from low-flying Japanese aircraft. But near ...

Antiaircraft guns (also known as “flak guns”) have been the been the bane of combat aviators’ existence since the advent of air combat itself during World War I. But of all the world’s great ...

The search for more destructive firepower in the air started long before the Second World War, but by the 1940s it had turned into a contest to see how much artillery an aircraft could realistically ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) bought 60 Gepard self-propelled anti-aircraft guns from Jordan in order to transfer them to ...

In the era of sophisticated long-range air-to-air missiles, cannons on aircraft may seem quaint—but they still serve a vital purpose. For over a century, the cannon has been the fighter aircraft’s ...

The aircraft gun has been dubbed the Ballerina for its lightness and high rate of fire: it outshines rivals in terms of precision, accuracy and rate of fire MOSCOW, October 3. /TASS/. The Kalashnikov ...