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"anti-aircraft" Definitions
  1. designed to destroy enemy aircraft

289 Sentences With "anti aircraft"

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The Syrian government said one of them had been downed by an anti-aircraft missile, but rebels said they had used anti-aircraft guns.
Last month, Syria fired anti-aircraft missiles at Israeli military jets.
Rebels have previously shot down Syrian warplanes with anti-aircraft guns.
What the phony airfield concealed was batteries of anti-aircraft weapons.
Toler told the audience that according to Dutch investigators, Girkin's group procured a Buk M-1 anti-aircraft system from Russia that was manned by a crew of four soldiers from Russia's 53rd Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade.
Last year, he had a defense minister killed by ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUN!
Syrian rebels have previously shot down Syrian warplanes with anti-aircraft guns.
Anti-aircraft artillery bristled from the beds of rusted-out pickup trucks.
He added that there was no Iranian or Russian anti-aircraft fire.
Syria retaliated with anti-aircraft missiles, downing an Israeli F-16 jet.
What types of measures are in place to counter an anti-aircraft missile?
One factor the drones are not expected to face is anti-aircraft fire.
Syrian anti-aircraft missiles were launched at Israeli warplanes over Syria in March.
On the hills, anti-aircraft guns tower over the squat one-storey villages.
The Russians have reportedly stationed advanced anti-aircraft missile systems at the base.
The Saudis are thinking of supplying them with shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles.
Anti-aircraft missiles and RPGs lay haphazardly stacked everywhere like planks of wood.
He also suggested providing additional anti-aircraft and anti-ship weaponry to Ukraine.
C4 explosive and even anti-aircraft missiles were available to the highest bidder.
North Vietnamese anti-aircraft guns and missiles menaced American planes and their crews.
While he acknowledged that the slower planes were vulnerable to other modern enemy aircraft and anti-aircraft missiles, he said the planes would be "extremely effective" in environments like Iraq and Afghanistan, where the terrorists have very limited anti-aircraft weapons.
We know how to deal with Syrian anti-aircraft fire, as everyone ultimately saw.
There was no immediate rebel comment on the use of an anti-aircraft missile.
Vladimir Putin said Russia would supply Syria with an advanced anti-aircraft missile system.
The weapons are also more sophisticated, and are said to include anti-aircraft missiles.
In 85033, Kim executed two senior North Korean officials with an anti-aircraft gun.
The insurgents are thought to possess anti-armor and anti-aircraft missiles, diplomats say.
As a result a Russian airplane came under fire from Syria's anti-aircraft systems.
Western intelligence concluded that the plane was shot down by an anti-aircraft missile.
The Israeli military would not explain why Arrow was used against an anti-aircraft missile, fueling speculation that Israel was either testing the Arrow missile or that its Iron Dome missile defense system wasn't within range of downing the anti-aircraft missile.
A favored method of execution is to blow the doomed away with anti-aircraft guns.
Turkey took delivery of the first of its S-400 anti-aircraft missiles from Russia.
Reluctant to take risks, Saudi pilots fly high, out of range of anti-aircraft fire.
Only the anti-aircraft guns hint at what goes on eight metres (26 feet) underground.
The first time it was wild ducks, which interfered with firing of anti-aircraft batteries.
Would Saudi Arabia now give Sunni groups anti-aircraft weapons to neutralise Russian air power?
Some were killed by flamethrowers; others were shot by anti-aircraft guns before outdoor audiences.
Deposing a leader known for executing his own people with anti-aircraft guns is tough.
The Saudis could also have used anti-aircraft guns as a last line of defense.
More than 20 Syrian anti-aircraft missiles were fired during the incident, the official said.
Israeli media reports said the Israeli F-16 was hit by Syrian anti-aircraft missiles.
Alex Dawson caught this image of an anti-aircraft tank off the coast of Jordan.
So, the ZSU-57-2, for example, is equipped with two 57mm anti-aircraft guns.
These include: The plane being destroyed by an anti-aircraft missile, particularly a Russian missile.
In February, an Israeli F-16 jet was brought down by Syrian anti-aircraft fire.
The military said in its statement that one of the anti-aircraft missiles had been intercepted.
Photos of the wreck show the severed ship in exquisite detail, including some anti-aircraft cannons.
Earlier on Saturday, Nagorno-Karabakh's military said Armenian anti-aircraft forces had downed an Azeri helicopter.
A Soviet helicopter had once hovered over their anti-aircraft gun for a moment too long.
All right, it isn't literally blasted with anti-aircraft fire, but you know what we mean.
Israel also struck five Syrian anti-aircraft batteries that fired at its planes, the statement said.
China has reclaimed seven reefs, building man-made islands with anti-aircraft and anti-missile batteries.
The Flak Tower IV was built by forced laborers as an anti-aircraft bunker in 1942.
A number of storage magazines were built to support the anti-aircraft batteries at Fort Tilden.
Last year, Moscow approved a $200 million loan to Armenia for anti-aircraft and radar systems.
This means jets could strike without having to fly over Syria and avoid anti-aircraft defenses.
Russia's ZSU-22-257 Sparka tank was equipped with two 22mm S-57 anti-aircraft guns.
Outside the detention center, militias patrolled the streets in pickup trucks mounted with anti-aircraft guns.
China has built seven artificial islands, installing radar and anti-aircraft guns and missiles on several.
Syria has fired anti-aircraft missiles at Israeli jets at least three times in recent months.
Images of the aftermath showed damaged military vehicles and the remains of an anti-aircraft gun.
Earlier this month the U.S. deployed a battery of long-range anti-aircraft missiles in Lithuania.
He tried to buy anti-aircraft missiles he intended to sell to Iran's military, they say.
Turkey said it would go ahead with its purchase of Russian-made S-400 anti-aircraft missiles.
One of the attacking jets was hit by a Syrian anti-aircraft missile and crashed in Israel.
In turn, Syrian anti-aircraft managed to shoot down an Israeli aircraft that crashed in Northern Israel.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un reportedly oversaw a test of a new anti-aircraft weapon system.
He had the last one executed with an anti-aircraft gun, according to the South's spy agency.
That visit produced a deal for Saudi Arabia to purchase an advanced anti-aircraft system from Russia.
Shielded by the Alborz Mountains, the facility also is ringed by anti-aircraft guns and other fortifications.
Eventually designated BQM-225s, these pilotless aircraft were merely targets for fighter pilots and anti-aircraft gunners.
In this April 24, 1961, photo, an anti-aircraft unit of the Cuban militia defends the Havana shore.
There was no fighter opposition, and over Courseulles-sur-Mer there was no anti-aircraft fire that morning.
The supply included five Zu-23-2 anti-aircraft cannons and 20,000 shells for the cannons, RIA said.
Israel confirmed earlier on Friday that anti-aircraft missiles targeted its aircraft while on a mission in Syria.
Mercier's command, for instance, is closely tracking the capabilities of Russian advanced integrated anti-aircraft sensors and missiles.
Some carried anti-aircraft guns they had to remove from their trucks to get through the narrow streets.
When the Cold War rolled around, anti-aircraft guns and nuclear Nike Missiles were added to the arsenal.
US intelligence assessed the Israeli aircraft may have been shot down by a barrage of anti-aircraft missiles.
There are concerns that if the fresh shipments are indeed weapons, they could include more anti-aircraft missiles.
He has also defied his allies to buy Russian anti-aircraft missiles despite a threat of U.S. sanctions.
Israel denied the accusation and blamed Syria for firing an anti-aircraft missile that struck the Russian plane.
While on a bombing run to Chichi Jima island, his plane was hit by enemy anti-aircraft fire.
Most of the equipment came from earlier war efforts, with cameras replacing machine guns and anti-aircraft guns.
It said the shipment had included five Zu-23-2 anti-aircraft cannons and 20,000 shells for the cannons.
They were followed by scout cars, motorcycles, trucks with anti-tank guns, anti-aircraft guns, field guns and cannons.
And he tweeted an optimistic "meet you there!" message to the despot who's assassinated underlings with anti-aircraft guns.
Or you're hit with an anti-aircraft gun that's been repurposed to an anti-infantry gun just for you.
A SEAD campaign uses air strikes, artillery, missiles, or all the options, to destroy an enemy's anti-aircraft defenses.
After Syrian air defences downed one of the Israeli jets, Israel retaliated with strikes against Syrian anti-aircraft batteries.
The Russians reportedly deployed an advanced SA-23 anti-missile and anti-aircraft system to Syria earlier this month.
Despite plenty of anti-aircraft fire from the ground, all the planes reached their targets without being shot down.
Israeli officials note that the sorties on May 10th also hit Syrian anti-aircraft missile batteries, provided by Russia.
Syria currently relies on a mixture of less advanced Russian-made anti-aircraft systems to defend its air space.
Fighters used tanks, rocket-propelled grenades and anti-aircraft guns to try to blast through Islamic State sniper positions.
No Israeli fighter jets were hit in the strikes, but Conricus said they came under heavy anti-aircraft fire.
Powerful S-400 anti-aircraft missiles maintain an air-defence perimeter in the eastern Mediterranean that constrains even NATO.
As they flew to their destination, anti-aircraft fire flashed below from the Salvadoran jungle, where civil war raged.
Is it true that Kim executed his own security officials by having them shot with an anti-aircraft gun?
The 12,000 ton ship will be armed with one 76-mm cannon and anti-aircraft guns, the newspaper said.
Their missions included ferrying airplanes, training men for combat, and towing airborne targets for ground anti-aircraft artillery training.
Russia is reportedly planning to move anti-aircraft missiles to Crimea, which it annexed in 2014, as tensions escalate.
Subsequent reports claimed that an additional target was an advanced anti-aircraft system that had just arrived from Iran.
Dutch prosecutors have said the missile system that brought down the airliner came from a Russian anti-aircraft brigade.
"He requested help to establish an anti-aircraft defence system to prevent future attacks," it said in a statement.
"This anti-aircraft system is very efficient for targeting drones which are becoming crucial in modern warfare," Vucic said.
In response, Syrian forces fired anti-aircraft missiles at the Israeli jets, saying they downed one aircraft and hit another.
Kim's visit to the testing site came after he visited the North Korean Air and Anti-aircraft Force on Tuesday.
"During the attack, anti-aircraft missiles were fired towards Israel, triggering alarms that were heard in Northern Israel," it added.
She met anti-aircraft fire over Bournemouth, barrage balloons suddenly popping up, doodle bugs coming for her, and engine failure.
It was not clear whether an aircraft or unmanned drone was behind the strike, which triggered heavy anti aircraft fire.
Anti-aircraft searchlights undergo a test in the sky above the General Electric Company at Schenectady, New York, on Dec.
After an Israeli jet was hit by Syrian anti-aircraft fire and crashed, Israel launched more such attacks in Syria.
The president suggested that a "stupid" Iranian officer could have approved anti-aircraft fire without the approval of his superiors.
Also over the weekend, reports emerged of Syrian rebels using advanced anti-aircraft weapons to shoot down Syrian government helicopters.
Feng told lawmakers Taiwan would send additional ammunition to Itu Aba for its anti-aircraft guns in the next month.
Serbia has recently purchased Pantsir anti-aircraft missile launchers from Russia and deliveries are expected in the next few months.
This time the target was nearly 300km (200 miles) from Israel's border and close to Russian anti-aircraft missile batteries.
Serbia has recently purchased Pantsir anti-aircraft missile launchers from Russia and deliveries are expected in the next few months.
This means jets could strike without having to fly over Syria and avoid Russia's anti-aircraft defenses, they told CNN.
"About half the Japanese aircraft engaged were shot down by greatly improved U.S. Navy anti-aircraft defenses," retired Rear Adm.
They also include those anti-aircraft and SAM (surface-to-air missile) sites which endanger the lives of American pilots.
It has been trotted out at military parades, and Pyongyang's state media declared the anti-aircraft weapon operational in May.
Turkey's planned purchase of the $2.5 billion S-400 anti-aircraft missile system has become a particular point of tension.
This is, after all, a man who last year ordered five aides to be killed with an anti-aircraft gun.
Bayoush added that there was as yet no sign of the rebels being supplied with anti-aircraft missiles they have demanded.
During that operation, an Israeli F-16 fighter was shot down by Syrian anti-aircraft guns, its pilots ejecting to safety.
Two of the men we spoke with had served together under Massoud as part of a three-man anti-aircraft battery.
The first mission sees the player landing as a paratrooper behind enemy lines, tasked with taking out anti-aircraft artillery points.
A rebel group operating in the area, Jaish al-Nasr, said it had brought down the jet with anti-aircraft guns.
When Israeli warplanes attacked a Syrian military site about two months ago, they encountered anti-aircraft missile fire, according to Syria.
Olangian was convicted by a jury in November 2016 of crimes that included conspiring to acquire and transfer anti-aircraft missiles.
Israel sees red lines in the shipment to Hezbollah of anti-aircraft missiles, precision ground-to-ground missiles and chemical weapons.
This week, the Israeli military said it attacked a Syrian anti-aircraft battery that had fired at its planes over Lebanon.
He had his half-brother murdered; his uncle was reportedly executed by an anti-aircraft gun unleashed at point-blank range.
Nagorno-Karabakh's military also said that Armenian anti-aircraft forces downed an Azeri helicopter, although the report was denied by Azerbaijan.
The tower is not equipped with laser death rays or anti-aircraft rockets that can be used to prevent unauthorized operations.
"We don't know yet if it's an SA-5 or SA-17, but it's a Syrian anti-aircraft missile," he said.
For its part, Russia has set up a military hotline to prevent warplanes or anti-aircraft units clashing accidentally over Syria.
Kim's defense minister was executed in May 2015 with an anti-aircraft gun at a Pyongyang military school, before an audience.
Reuters was unable to confirm whether an aircraft or unmanned drone was behind the strike which triggered heavy anti aircraft fire.
Maybe the anti-aircraft fire had given them enough time to flee, but they didn't have time to take their belongings.
Foreign-backed rebels have long demanded anti-aircraft missiles to help them fight off air raids by Syrian and Russian forces.
Sure, Browne knocked Struve out back in 2011 when he caught him, mid-flying-knee, with a veritable anti-aircraft missile.
In contrast, Iran has more modern Russian S-28500 anti-aircraft missile systems that would have to be suppressed and degraded.
Also in the Murmansk area are dozens of advanced MiG fighter planes and a wide assortment of anti-aircraft defense systems.
Sweeney's group hit a loaded train and avoided even more anti-aircraft fire as they headed back to the USS Hancock.
Iran confirmed Tuesday that anti-aircraft missiles that took down a Kyiv-bound commercial airplane two weeks ago were Russian-made.
It  determined that two short range anti-aircraft missiles targeted the flight just minutes after takeoff from Tehran&aposs international airport.
"During the attack, anti-aircraft missiles were fired towards Israel, triggering alarms that were heard in Northern Israel," the military said.
It's basically radar vans attached to anti-aircraft guns -- but they have to be close to the target they are defending.
The other, dated 1961-62, shows Fidel Castro looking through the sight of an MK51 Director for an anti-aircraft gun.
The Israeli military said then that Syria fired two anti-aircraft missiles at its jets targeting artillery positions, but both missiles missed.
Officials in three rebel groups contacted by Reuters reiterated previous statements that that plane had been shot down with anti-aircraft guns.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The Israeli military said anti-aircraft missiles were fired on Friday at its air force, which was operating in Syria.
China has reclaimed seven reefs in the area, building man-made islands with anti-aircraft and anti-missile batteries, satellite images show.
Syrian anti-aircraft missiles had been fired at the plane, with forces on high alert after Israeli airstrikes in Syria on Thursday.
The drills involved over 45,000 troops and around 1,20083 pieces of military hardware, including 150 aircraft and 200 anti-aircraft missile systems.
The latest conflict roiling Washington and Ankara is over an anti-aircraft missile system — one that Russia wants to sell to Turkey.
Japan's missile force has been limited to anti-aircraft and anti-ship munitions with ranges of less than 300 km (186 miles).
Kim is ruthless in his pursuit of power -- he has had dozens of senior officials executed, including reportedly by anti-aircraft cannon.
The longest range missiles in Japan's arsenal, which includes anti-aircraft and anti-ship munitions, have ranges of less than 300 kilometres.
Russia will deliver its Pantsir-S anti-aircraft system to Serbia "in the next few months," Russian state media said this week.
Turkey said it opted for the S-400 anti-aircraft system because Western arms suppliers had not offered a "financially effective" alternative.
Russia has stationed anti-aircraft and anti-ship missiles there, able to cover huge areas and complicate NATO's ability to move around.
Intending to obstruct German troop movements ahead of the Allied troops crossing the Rhine River, the squadron encountered enemy anti-aircraft fire.
Recently, Israel attacked Syrian anti-aircraft facilities, the first time Israeli jets had been targeted by Syria since its civil war began.
However, EU military commanders who briefed EU diplomats this month warned that anti-aircraft systems in Libya made such overflights increasingly risky.
Despite the anti-aircraft systems, armored vehicles and artillery units rolling over Ukraine's eastern border, the Kremlin continued to deny any involvement.
The images revealed anti-aircraft guns and other weapons systems that could protect against cruise missiles sitting in hexagonal structures on the islands.
Kim's visit to the testing site came after he visited the North Korean Air and Anti-aircraft Force on Tuesday, according to KCNA.
He remembers how his officers once failed to stop a robbery at a factory because the thieves came armed with anti-aircraft guns.
In 1972, she traveled to Hanoi, Vietnam and posed in an infamous photo where she sat on a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft battery.
In May 2015, the country's defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, was reportedly killed with an anti-aircraft gun after being accused of treason.
The airliner was shot down by an anti-aircraft missile over Ukraine in 2014, killing 196 Dutch nationals, 38 Australians and 64 others.
U.S. President Donald Trump's administration has threatened to penalise Turkey for receiving Russian S-400 anti-aircraft weapons, expected in the coming days.
They have called on their foreign backers including Saudi Arabia to supply them with anti-aircraft missiles to confront Syrian and Russian warplanes.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's Patriot anti-aircraft missile system shot down an aerial target over the Golan Heights on Thursday, the Israeli military said.
A military outpost in Semdinli had come under a PKK attack with mortars, anti-aircraft fire and machine guns before dawn on Friday.
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Explosions and anti-aircraft fire could be heard in parts of the Libyan capital Tripoli late on Saturday, Reuters reporters said.
They included anti-ship and anti-aircraft missiles of various types, as well as intercontinental ballistic missiles intended for the nation's nuclear submarines.
An LNA warplane also attacked the only partly functioning airport in Tripoli, Mitiga, where anti-aircraft guns opened fire in response, witnesses said.
Israel also attacked Syrian anti-aircraft batteries when those batteries fired dozens of missiles at Israeli aircraft carrying out the strikes, Conricus said.
The B-2 is considered the Air Force's heavy-penetration bomber and features low observable stealth technology designed to evade anti-aircraft defenses.
Whenever engineers do finish their work on the laser truck, it will still only be one part of Army's new anti-aircraft arsenal.
While the attackers fired automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades, the sailor shredded the dingy with an anti-aircraft gun, killing all six.
He deserted his post and defected to Turkey, where he used his skills as an anti-aircraft expert to help train Syrian rebels.
The U.S. trained Afghan guerillas and gave them advanced Stinger anti-aircraft missiles, which helped them blunt much of the Soviet air war.
They also will work in coordination with early aerial warnings, surface ships and ground anti-aircraft defense, among other branches of the military.
You accept that some weapons are beyond the pale: nuclear weapons, nerve gas or perhaps hand grenades, land mines and anti-aircraft missiles.
Iran has thoroughly denied that the plane crash that killed 176 people on Wednesday was caused by one of its anti-aircraft missiles.
The CH-5, on the other hand, cannot operate at more than 9,000 metres, which makes it vulnerable to some anti-aircraft weaponry.
Investigators from a Dutch-led team later said the missile was fired from a launcher belonging to Russia's 53rd anti-aircraft missile brigade.
Earlier, Russia's Defence Ministry said the aircraft was shot down by Syrian anti-aircraft systems, but accused Israel of indirectly causing the incident.
In February, Syrian anti-aircraft fire brought down an Israeli F-16 jet that was attacking the positions of Iran-backed forces in Syria.
The five were killed with anti-aircraft guns, the National Intelligence Service said in a private briefing to lawmakers, according to the news agency.
The mustachioed 234-year-old engineer started Asgardia in 163 and previously oversaw the development of Russia's feared S-216 anti-aircraft missile system.
A Syrian official on state TV called the raids a "new aggression," and said that anti-aircraft fire hit more than one Israeli plane.
The counter-strike took place two hours later and "incapacitated" the anti-aircraft unit located 50 km (30 miles) east of Damascus, he said.
Israel on Tuesday blamed Syria, saying its anti-aircraft batteries "fired indiscriminately" and failed to ensure that no Russian planes were in the air.
Both Hayden and Fonda were demonized by the political right after she visited Vietnam and was photographed on a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun.
CAMP UPTON, L.I. — Ducks, for the second time in less than a month, have been the cause of changes in anti-aircraft training here.
On Sunday, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un reportedly supervised test runs of new anti-aircraft weapons, amid heightened tensions on the Korean Peninsula.
The unit is reinforced with self-propelled artillery, anti-aircraft systems, rocket artillery and seven dozen tanks, the Russian Defense Ministry broadcaster Zvezda said.
Jerusalem (CNN)Israel's military says its warplanes struck a Syrian anti-aircraft battery near Damascus on Monday after the battery fired on its planes.
But Russia, which is backing Syrian President Bashar Assad against the U.S.-supported rebels, has deployed advanced anti-aircraft systems to protect Syrian airspace.
Weeks earlier, US intelligence announced there was a high possibility Beijing had deployed anti-ship and anti-aircraft missiles as part of military exercises.
Israel's military said earlier that an anti-aircraft missile was fired from Lebanon at one of its drones but the aircraft was not hit.
Although it blunted Indian air attacks with hastily-gifted North Korean anti-aircraft missiles, in the end its forces were annihilated by Indian artillery.
In February, Syria shot down an Israeli F-16 fighter jet which came under "massive anti-aircraft fire," the IDF said at the time.
The People's Liberation Daily said the frigate, with a displacement of more than 4,000 tonnes, has powerful long-range surveillance and anti-aircraft capabilities.
Since 2014, Lithuania expanded its armed forces, partly by reintroducing conscription, and armed it with modern weapons, including anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles.
Those aircraft can be armed with long-range cruise missiles, which allow the bombers to stay out of the reach of anti-aircraft defenses.
Panamanian authorities detained the Chon Chon Gang in 2013 after finding MiG fighter jets, anti-aircraft systems and explosives hidden under bags of sugar.
Russia said it shot down seven drones using anti-aircraft missiles while the other six were taken under control and landed by its military.
A Reuters reporter saw tanks, armored vehicles and pickups mounted with anti-aircraft guns driving towards the battle from the north of the city.
One of the planes, an Israeli F-16, was hit by a Syrian anti-aircraft missile and crashed in northern Israel, according to Reuters.
The Blackbird, still the second-fastest manned plane in history, flew for more than 260 years and outpaced anti-aircraft missiles lobbed at it.
The CIA developed technology to restrict anti-aircraft missiles once they are given to allies, a Dutch researcher said according to a Reuters report.
Some of the islands have runways that can accommodate jumbo jets and appear to have anti-aircraft guns and missile defense systems on them.
"An IDF aerial defense system activated in response to an anti-aircraft missile launched from Syria," the official Israeli army Twitter account later said.
Syrian anti-aircraft fire downed the F-16 as it returned from a bombing raid on Iran-backed positions in Syria early on Saturday.
Fortunately, some foresight and a friendly suggestion from the Ministry of Defense had nudged Oy Alkoholiliike Ab to acquire four Bofors 40mm anti-aircraft guns.
Anti-aircraft fire had just shot down Bezabih's MiG 21 warplane while he was on a bombing sortie and he parachuted into Asmara, Eritrea's capital.
A Reuters reporter saw tanks, armoured vehicles and pick-ups mounted with anti-aircraft guns driving towards the battle from the north of the city.
He'd been fully aware of the arms dealing — one of his key assignments was to block the sale of an anti-aircraft system to Saddam.
Cargo planes are easier to hit with anti-aircraft missiles than bombers, which means the MOAB is inherently somewhat riskier to use than smaller bombs.
That meant US troops could've found themselves in a firefight with other terrorists if something went wrong, or dodging Russian and Syrian anti-aircraft weapons.
Lieberman's comments on Sunday came after Syrian anti-aircraft missiles were fired at Israeli warplanes which had just attacked several targets near Palmyra Thursday evening.
One big development has been long-range anti-aircraft and anti-ship missiles, which would push US forces way the hell back from anywhere useful.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department said on Tuesday the United States was not providing any shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles to the Syrian opposition.
On these reclaimed shoals, China has emplaced anti-aircraft and anti-missile systems in what can also be a precursor to fielding offensive weapons capabilities.
They finally decided it was time to abandon Raqqa in June, after listening for days to the bombing and the sounds of anti-aircraft guns.
He was ambushed and attacked with "small arms, machine guns, anti-aircraft guns, rocket propelled grenades, mortars, and improvised explosive devices," according to his citation.
But without the anti-aircraft weapons they have been requesting, they were not able to withstand the Russian air campaign and were forced to withdraw.
A former military general told Reuters earlier this year that some anti-aircraft missiles had been placed along the country's coast because of that possibility.
RIA said Russia had also started supplying weapons to Iraqi Kurds, including five Zu-23-2 anti-aircraft cannons and 20,000 shells for the cannons.
Almaz-Antey, the manufacturer of Buk anti-aircraft systems, pushed back on the findings, saying the version of the missile was used by Ukrainian forces.
Weeks earlier, US intelligence announced there was a high possibility Beijing had deployed anti-ship and anti-aircraft missiles as part of ongoing military exercises.
Buwaydani said his group is fighting on many fronts in Syria despite a lack of supplies and weapons, especially anti-tank and anti-aircraft weapons.
He's accused of ordering the assassination of his own half-brother, deliberately starving his own citizens and arbitrarily executing top officials with anti-aircraft guns.
But multiple news outlets are now reporting that unnamed US officials have assessed that Iran shot down the passenger plane with an anti-aircraft missile.
Military options reportedly include striking targets associated with Assad's air force, establishing safe zones inside Syria and supplying anti-regime rebels with anti-aircraft systems.
Saudi Arabia's support for the opposition has yet to be translated into the kind of heavier weapons the rebels are seeking, notably anti-aircraft missiles.
North Vietnamese MiGs took off and headed toward Sweeney's strike group, although they eventually stood down, and the group was under heavy anti-aircraft fire.
Iran's anti-aircraft systems were likely active on Wednesday after it carried out a missile attack on Iraqi bases that house U.S. personnel, Newsweek reported.
In September, U.S. analyst Michael Kofman wrote thhere Russia's anti-aircraft and missile threat had been "woefully overhyped", both in Europe and the Middle East.
Israel said it had destroyed three Syrian anti-aircraft batteries and four targets "that are part of Iran's military establishment" in Syria during Saturday's raids.
The huge subs mounted five-inch deck guns and anti-aircraft machine guns, but relied on their embarked aircraft and their weapons for main firepower.
The new system, developed and built by defense firm Saab, replaces the mobile anti-aircraft guns the military on Gotland have previously been equipped with.
Israel retaliated by destroying around half of Syria's anti-aircraft batteries, according to an initial assessment shared with Reuters by an Israeli official who requested anonymity.
Russian regular forces, equipped with artillery, armour and anti-aircraft support, intervened to rescue the separatist militias in mid-2014 and soon outmatched the Ukrainian Army.
Studded with all sorts of marine life, the aircraft carrier still has at least one Grumman Hellcat plane and anti-aircraft weaponry left on its deck.
At dawn on Thursday, residents said, an airstrike destroyed three houses that were occupied by an ISIS squad trained to use anti-aircraft and tank weapons.
From P-19433D Mustangs and Flying Fortresses through to anti-aircraft spotters and flame hurling tanks, these images cast the war in a vibrant new light.
Last year the Syrian government said rebels had used one to shoot down a jet, but insurgents said they had downed it with anti-aircraft guns.
On top of the building, you can see most of Lviv from the seat of an anti-aircraft gun perpetually pointed in the direction of Russia.
Two soldiers, almost childlike in their stature, climb aboard the ZPU-2 anti-aircraft gun mounted on a truck, which consists of two KPV 14.5-mm.
The downing by Syrian anti-aircraft fire, after Israeli jets attacked a suspected Iranian arms shipment to Syria, caused a diplomatic rift between Israel and Russia.
Beijing has spent the past several years building military bases — complete with airstrips, radar arrays, and advanced anti-aircraft weaponry — on a string of artificial islands.
The US believes Pyongyang's second launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile, and South Korea's decision to go ahead with anti-aircraft defenses, are influencing China's thinking.
Reuters TV Russia and India are set to sign a deal worth more than $5 billion on the delivery of Russian S-400 anti-aircraft missiles.
When the plane was flying over eastern Ukraine, Russian soldiers fired a missile from the 53rd anti-aircraft missile brigade and shot it down, motivation unknown.
A bipartisan group of lawmakers is calling on President Obama not to supply shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles to Syrian rebels fighting President Bashar al-Assad.
"They cannot get close to this port anymore, they will be under fire," said a UAE soldier loading an anti-aircraft gun onto a patrolling warship.
Shopkeeper Mohamed Omar said he had counted over 20 military vehicles, some mounted with anti aircraft guns and mortars while others carried soldiers leaving the bases.
Evidence indicates it is "highly likely" that an Iranian anti-aircraft missile downed a Ukrainian jetliner near Tehran late Tuesday, U.S. and Canadian officials said Thursday.
Ukraine plane crash Ukrainian authorities are investigating whether an anti-aircraft missile was involved in the Ukrainian International Airlines crash in Iran that killed 176 people.
The jet was hit and went down Saturday in northern Israel after coming under "massive anti-aircraft fire" from Syrian forces, according to the Israeli army.
Deck armament often equaled that of coastal and riverine gunboats—one or two artillery pieces plus several machine-gun mounts for anti-aircraft and surface attack.
Foreign-backed rebels have long demanded anti-aircraft weapons to offset the impact of devastating aerial raids by Syrian forces and, since September, also by Russian planes.
Last month, Syrian rebels denied a Russian Defence Ministry report that an anti-aircraft missile had been used to shoot down a Syrian warplane in Hama province.
An F-16, one of at least eight Israeli planes that had been despatched, was hit by a Syrian anti-aircraft missile and crashed in northern Israel.
A US think-tank reported that China appeared to have put anti-aircraft systems on the seven artificial islands it has built in the South China Sea.
ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algeria's army seized a cache of weapons, including 17 anti-aircraft missiles on Sunday in the southern desert province of Adrar, the defense ministry said.
He ordered an investigation into the matter toward the end of last year and, coincidentally or not, recently had several security officials executed by anti-aircraft weapons. 
The missile was from the Russian military's 53rd anti-aircraft missile brigade based in the Russian city of Kursk, Wilbert Paulissen of the Dutch National Police said.
Vapor trails in the sky, the nightly flicker of anti-aircraft fire; rumors of barges massing along the coast of Holland, Kriegsmarine minesweepers probing the Channel defenses.
As the missiles hit their targets and anti-aircraft guns lit up the sky, hundreds of people took to the streets of Damascus to protest the strike.
The coalition issued several warnings via a de-confliction line before it destroyed two artillery pieces and an anti-aircraft weapon and damaged a tank, CENTCOM said.
Prosecutors have said the missile system that brought down the airliner came from the Russian 53rd Anti-Aircraft Brigade, based in the western Russian city of Kursk.
A S-400 Triumf anti-aircraft missile  system at the 70th Victory Day Anniversary Plant in Nizhny Novgorod where President Vladimir Putin visited on March 29, 2016.
Israel retaliated with what appeared to be surface-to-surface missiles, and Syrian anti-aircraft batteries hosed the sky with fire in an effort to intercept them.
Flak Tower IV — one of two towers — was built in 1942 as an anti-aircraft bunker and was one of the Nazis' biggest fortresses, according to Hamburg.com.
The Pentagon is increasingly worried about rapid proliferation of Chinese and Russian anti-ship and anti-aircraft missile systems, putting U.S. military planners in an unfamiliar position.
A Syrian anti-aircraft system accidentally shot down the plane, killing all 15 on board, as it responded to Israeli fighter jets attacking targets in northwestern Syria.
Last year, anti-aircraft fire brought down an Israeli jet returning from an air raid in Syria, prompting a wave of Israeli strikes against other targets there.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Early assessments suggest an Israeli jet that crashed in northern Israel on Saturday was hit by Syrian anti-aircraft fire, an Israeli military spokesman said.
The official, Viktor Poznikhir, said Russian armed forces had killed 250 fighters and destroyed around 15 pickups with mounted machine guns and anti-aircraft guns, Interfax reported.

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