Question: What was difficult to get set right on the new guns?
Answer: get their fuse setting correct

Question: Where did most rounds shot at aircraft usually explode?
Answer: well below their targets

Question: What treaty was supposed to stop Germany from having antiaircraft weapons?
Answer: Treaty of Versailles

Question: When did covert antiaircraft training start in Germany?
Answer: in the late 1920s

Question: When did the 10.5 centimeter FlaK 38 appear in Germany?
Answer: In the late 1930s

Question: When did the design begin for the 12.8 centimeter FlaK?
Answer: 1938

Question: What did the FlaK 39 have?
Answer: 220v 24 kW generators

Question: What did the tachymetric devices do?
Answer: track targets and produce vertical and horizontal deflection angles

Question: Which system had electrical tracking?
Answer: French Brocq

Question: What gun was the French Brocq system used with?
Answer: 75 mm

Question: Which system used a pair of trackers?
Answer: British Wilson-Dalby gun director

Question: Deflection settings were also called what?
Answer: aim-off

Question: Poland and other European countries could not defend against what?
Answer: German attack

Question: What battle marked the beginning of significant antiaircraft warfare?
Answer: Battle of Britain

Question: What was under command of the Air Defence UK orgnisation?
Answer: Army's Anti-aircraft command

Question: The Air Defence UK grew to have how many antiaircraft corps?
Answer: 3

Question: What was formed in 1941 to protect airfields?
Answer: RAF regiment

Question: When was the successful test of the 3.6-inch HAA gun?
Answer: 1918

Question: When did the 3.7-inch HAA gun become preferred?
Answer: 1928

Question: What gun did the Royal Navy start using?
Answer: 4.5-inch (114 mm) gun in a twin turret

Question: How long of a running time did the Number 199 fuse have?
Answer: 30-second running time

Question: What was introduced in 1939?
Answer: Machine Fuse Setter

Question: What was shown to be practically not possible during service trials?
Answer: ranging and tracking the new high-speed targets

Question: How was target lead watched at short range?
Answer: by watching the tracers

Question: Target area is relatively large at what range?
Answer: short range

Question: At long range what, in theory, could be used to set ranging calculations?
Answer: slide rules

Question: What small errors caused large errors in shell fall height and the time until exploding?
Answer: small errors in distance

Question: In the 1920s, which company developed the automatic 20 mm?
Answer: Rheinmetall

Question: Which Switzerland company obtained the patent for an automatic 20 mm gun during the first World War?
Answer: Oerlikon

Question: Which company redesigned the rapid fire 2 cm FlaK 30?
Answer: Mauser-Werke

Question: What did Germany add to the 20 mm to make it more effective?
Answer: a 3.7 cm

Question: When was the first 3.7 cm FlaK 18 introduced?
Answer: 1935

Question: What were the large blockhouses called that the Germans developed?
Answer: Hochbunker "High Bunkers"

Question: Another name for the High Bunkers was what?
Answer: "Flaktürme" flak towers

Question: What was placed on the blockhouses by the Germans?
Answer: anti-aircraft artillery

Question: What city had some of the last buildings to fall in 1945?
Answer: Berlin

Question: What structure did the British build in the North Sea?
Answer: Maunsell Forts

Question: Which military set up a large air defence network surrounding its larger cities?
Answer: the U.S. Army

Question: What US system was created in the 1950s that included radar and computers?
Answer: the 75 mm Skysweeper system

Question: The Skysweeper replaced the small guns that the Army was using, including which one?
Answer: the 40 mm Bofors

Question: What does NADGE stand for?
Answer: NATO Air Defence Ground Environment

Question: What did NADGE become?
Answer: the NATO Integrated Air Defence System

Question: What was the name of the mechanical computer that used automation?
Answer: the Kerrison Predictor

Question: What did the Predictor calculate after it was pointed at a target?
Answer: the proper aim point automatically

Question: How did the Predictor display the information needed?
Answer: as a pointer mounted on the gun

Question: What two things did the operators of the gun have to do?
Answer: followed the pointer and loaded the shells

Question: What other country designed similar systems to the Predictor?
Answer: Germany

Question: What did the muzzle flashes of the firearms used by the infantry reveal?
Answer: infantry positions

Question: Along with speed of the modern jet, what else limits target opportunities?
Answer: altitude

Question: Heavier artillery systems were typically used for what?
Answer: most anti-aircraft gunnery

Question: Rocket research began prior to which war in some countries?
Answer: World War II

Question: What unguided missile systems was fitted to warships?
Answer: the British 2-inch RP and 3-inch

Question: When did the Bethnal Green disaster occur?
Answer: 1943

Question: What was the US military's counterpart to the British Stooge to counter the attacks by Kamikazes?
Answer: American Lark

Question: Which country's research was ahead of all other countries for missiles?
Answer: Germans missile research

Question: Which weapon caused a major shift in anti-aircraft strategy?
Answer: guided missile

Question: Which company wanted to introduce missile systems during the second World War but was not successful?
Answer: Germany

Question: What missile did the United States upgrade their defences with?
Answer: the Nike Ajax missile

Question: The introduction of the Nike Ajax missile caused what to disappear?
Answer: the larger anti-aircraft guns

Question: The introduction of what caused the larger anti-aircraft guns to disappear in the USSR?
Answer: SA-2 Guideline systems

Question: Where can the future of projectile based weapons possibly be found?
Answer: the railgun

Question: Testing is being done on weapons to create as much damage as what missile at a much lower cost?
Answer: a Tomahawk

Question: When did the United States Navy test a railgun?
Answer: February 2008

Question: How fast was the shell that the Navy fired from the railgun?
Answer: 5,600 miles (9,000 km) per hour

Question: When is the railgun expected to be ready?
Answer: 2020 to 2025

Question: What are two types of fuses used for shells?
Answer: barometric, time-delay, or proximity

Question: At shorter ranges a light weapon with what is used on fast targets?
Answer: a higher rate of fire

Question: What size of weapon calibers are better hitting at short range fast targets?
Answer: between 20 mm and 40 mm caliber

Question: Smaller .50 caliber and 8 millimeter guns have been used in what?
Answer: smallest mounts

Question: Air defence in such places as a carrier group are built around what?
Answer: a system of concentric layers

Question: What protects the outer layer?
Answer: AEW&C aircraft combined with the CAP

Question: The next layer's surface-to-air missiles are carried by what?
Answer: the carrier's escorts

Question: What is the range in nautical miles of the RIM-67 Standard?
Answer: 100

Question: What is the rate of fire for a radar-controlled Gatling gun of 20 and 30 millimeter?
Answer: several thousand rounds per minute

Question: What is likely to entirely replace gun systems?
Answer: missiles

Question: What is being lead to specialty roles?
Answer: Guns

Question: What gun is used in the Dutch Goalkeeper CIWS?
Answer: GAU-8 Avenger 30 mm seven-barrel Gatling gun

Question: What RIM weapon permits mid-flight course adjustments?
Answer: RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile

Question: What weapon's system uses guns and missiles?
Answer: Kashtan CIWS

Question: Contemporary air defence systems are usually what?
Answer: mobile

Question: What are larger weapon systems usually mounted on?
Answer: trailers