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How To Neutralize Anti-Aircraft Warfare

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The year was 1914. It all started in Sarajevo, Bosnia on July 28, 1914 with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife by a Serbian nationalist. This was the beginning of World War I. By August 4, 1914 all the major players of World War I, Britain, France, Russia, Italy, and Japan (the Allied Powers), and Austria-Hungary, Germany, and the Ottoman Empire (the Central Powers), were at war. This war would go on for another four years where it finally concluded on November 11, 1918 after Germany signed an armistice with the allies after they had suffered serious losses in The Second Battle of the Marne. The war would present many unique challenges for both sides, most importantly with the recent invention of the airplane and its use in military operations. In order to counter this threat, all players needed to take into consideration how to take down these planes in the most efficient way possible. This is how Anti-Aircraft Artillery …show more content…

The majority of all AAA were used and produced in other countries. Such examples of these are the Chevalier, Model 1918, Grande Puissance Filloux (GPF), Hotchkiss and a variety of Improvised Fighting Vehicles. The Chevalier was produced by a Swiss national living in Great Britain and was armor piercing. The GPF and Hotchkiss were both outfitted to the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) when they arrived in France in 1917. The Model 1918 was one of the first AAA weapons that was actually produced by America; however, it was not fielded until December 1918 after the armistice had already been signed. Lastly, the Improvised Fighting Vehicle, also known as “Technical”, was the name given to make shift 4x4 trucks which were crudely equipped with machine guns on the back of them. Numerous countries frequently used these low cost options to aid in the fight against

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