Anti-Aircraft Weapon Systems
Since the advent of the strike aircraft there has been a need for ground-based protection in the form of the Anti-Aircraft Weapon System.
There are a total of 44 Anti-Aircraft Weapon Systems in the Military Factory. Man-portable anti-aircraft weapons can be found here. Entries are listed below in alphanumeric order. Flag images indicative of country of origin.
1952
The AMX-13 Light Tank was designed to a new post-World War 2 French Army requirement. In the post-war years, France was rebui...
1966
The BRDM-2 primarily served as an armored scout car with the Soviet Army during the height of the Cold War. She was a direct ...
1983
The original combat "tank" was born out of the fighting that was World War 1. However, these were hardly representative of th...
1965
The original Centurion Main Battle Tank (A41) of 1945 was a hugely successful British Army initiative enacted during World Wa...
1990
The Crotale missile defence system can be fitted on a variety of chassis types. The French Air Force, Finnish Army and French...
1974
The Gepard Flakpanzer is derived from the Leopard 1 Main Battle Tank chassis and serves as a mobile anti-aircraft artillery p...
1940
The United States Army learned by experience in World War 1 that trying to move men and machine through mud and snow proved a...
1941
No image of the American Army effort in world war two is complete with the appearance of a half-track series vehicle. The sys...
1985
Aside from the M1 Abrams, perhaps no other American armored vehicle has represented the American Army more than the venerable...
1989
The Humvee Avenger is a modified form of the M1037 shelter carrier Humvee. It is a short-range mobile anti-aircraft defense ...
2003
The KTO Rosomak ("Wolverine") is a family of multi-purpose, eight-wheeled, armored vehicles currently in service with the Pol...
1983
The Defender 110 is produced by the British Land Rover Company for military use. The British Army and some Commonwealth natio...
1969
The M163 Vulcan Air Defense System (VADS) mated the firepower of the United States Air Force's standard aerial cannon - the M...
1945
The M19 Twin 40mm (M19 Gun Motor Carriage) self-propelled anti-aircraft system was developed towards the tail-end of World Wa...
1951
The "Duce and a Half" has a valued logistical history doing what it did best - moving men and material from Point A to Point ...
1952
The United States went to war in Korea in 1950 following the invasion of the democratic South by the communist-backed North, ...
1969
The M727 is a tracked carrier vehicle designed to transport the Hawk guided missile system (known collectively under the desi...
1960
The MIM-46 "Mauler" was an ill-fated attempt at a tracked mobile surface to air missile defense system for the US Army. The M...
1969
The M48 Chaparral SAM system consists of an infrared heat seeking missile, a launcher with a Forward Looking Infrared (FLIR) ...
1988
The ADATS is categorized as a low-level, short range air defense (SHORAD) system. The Canadian ADATS air defense system is mo...
1977
The French concerns of Renault and Panhard submitted designs to fulfill a 1970s French Army requirement for new 4x4 and 6x6 a...
1994
The PT-91 Twardy (roughly translated to "Tough") is a further development of the Soviet T-72 series of main battle tank, thou...
1979
The vast airspace over the Russian frontier and the combat-ready atmosphere of the Cold War required the Soviet Army to keep ...
1982
The 2K22 "Tunguska" (NATO codename of SA-19 "Grisom") is a self-propelled, tracked air defense system that combines both rapi...
1957
The original SA-2 Guideline design was engineered to track down and destroy the less-maneuverable high-altitude American bomb...
1970
Design work on the 2K12 "Kub" system began in 1959 under the direction of NIIP/Vympel (for the missile) and MMZ (for the trac...
1968
The SA-9 (NATO codename of "Gaskin" and formally designated by the Russians as the 9K31 Strela-1) was a four-wheeled mobile a...
1941
In the 1930s, the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) introduced the Type 97 Chi-Ha series of medium-class infantry support tanks to...
1963
The Type 63 was a self-propelled, tracked anti-aircraft defense system produced by NORINCO of China. The system featured the ...
1987
The Type 87 SPAAG is a conventional tracked, self-propelled, anti-aircraft gunnery platform indigenously developed by the Jap...
1973
When the North Korean Army needed an armored personnel carrier, they turned to what they do best - license production of an e...
1965
The ZSU-23-4 "Shilka" system has been - and in many examples continues to be - a much-feared anti-aircraft system for pilots ...
1955
The ZSU-57-2 served the Red Army of the Soviet Union throughout the bulk of the Cold War years. However, within a short windo...
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