Question: Different things could affect what with the shell?
Answer: predicted trajectory

Question: What was updated on the gunsight as a target moved?
Answer: 'off-set' angles for range and elevation

Question: Where was the barrel pointed when the sights were on a target?
Answer: the target's future position

Question: What two things figured the fuse length?
Answer: Range and height of the target

Question: What showed that aircraft could be a significant contribution to the battlefield?
Answer: World War I

Question: In addition to Zeppelins, what attacked London for four years with air attacks?
Answer: Gotha G.V bombers

Question: The four year air attack was instrumental in Britain forming what?
Answer: an independent air force

Question: The future of aircraft in war situations was important because of the growth in what two areas?
Answer: their range and weapon load

Question: Where were most of the nations who had the strongest military after World War I?
Answer: Europe

Question: How many different countries developed radar starting in the 1930s?
Answer: eight

Question: Where was the Observer Corps based?
Answer: Britain

Question: When was the Observer Corps formed?
Answer: 1925

Question: What did the Observer Corps observe and report on?
Answer: hostile aircraft flying over Britain

Question: What was originally used to see hostile aircraft approaching?
Answer: radar

Question: Who wanted the British to keep using machine guns in World War I?
Answer: RAF

Question: The military was not allowed to use anything that was bigger than what?
Answer: .50-inch

Question: What was determined to be the smallest effective round in 1935?
Answer: an impact fused 2 lb HE shell

Question: What was lighter than the water-cooled pom-pom?
Answer: The air-cooled Bofors

Question: What is the Kerrison Predictor's official name?
Answer: The Predictor AA No 3

Question: What was under development in both the Soviet Union and Britain in the 1930s?
Answer: solid fuel rockets

Question: Why was Britain mainly interested in solid fuel rockets?
Answer: for anti-aircraft fire

Question: What were rockets called at this time?
Answer: unrotated projectiles

Question: How big was the rocket that was introduced to handle dive bombing attacks?
Answer: 2-inch

Question: What size rocket was being developed at the end of the war?
Answer: 3-inch

Question: What did the British get a license to build?
Answer: the Bofors 40 mm

Question: While light, the Bofors 40mm were powerful enough to take down what size aircraft?
Answer: aircraft of any size

Question: What was produced to inspire people on the assembly line to work harder?
Answer: a movie

Question: What was the movie made to inspire assembly line workers called?
Answer: The Gun

Question: Who started making an unlicensed version of the 40mm at the beginning of the war?
Answer: Americans

Question: What kind of aircraft is used to intercept and destroy other aircraft?
Answer: The interceptor aircraft

Question: What particular aircraft did the interceptor target most?
Answer: bombers

Question: When were interceptors like the F-102 Delta Dagger first built?
Answer: after the end of World War II

Question: When were interceptors like the F-106 Delta Dart not being built anymore?
Answer: the late 1960s

Question: The interceptors were no longer built because of the shift of the bombing role to what?
Answer: ICBMs

Question: What is another possible weapon for anti-aircraft use?
Answer: the laser

Question: When did personnel first start thinking about using lasers in combat?
Answer: the late 1960s

Question: What laser can currently be used in the type of role that was first thought of in the late 1960s?
Answer: Tactical High Energy Laser

Question: The use of lasers in anti-aircraft warfare is currently considered what?
Answer: experimental usefulness

Question: When do some people believe that lasers can play a more prominent role in air defence?
Answer: in the next ten years

Question: What is the air defence of a certain area called?
Answer: Area air defence

Question: Armies as well as what group have operated area air defences?
Answer: Air Forces

Question: What U.S. Air Forces operated area air defence?
Answer: CIM-10 Bomarc

Question: What range do area defence systems have?
Answer: medium to long range

Question: What was the objective of the MIM-104 Patriot Missile batteries during the first Gulf War?
Answer: to cover populated areas

Question: Which country probably coined the term air defence?
Answer: Britain

Question: What does ADGB stand for?
Answer: Air Defence of Great Britain

Question: What year was the ADGB created?
Answer: 1925

Question: Who is probably the one who coined the term archie for anti-aircraft guns?
Answer: Amyas Borton

Question: What George Robey line is believed to have started the archie nickname?
Answer: "Archibald, certainly not!"

Question: What is the first purpose of air defence?
Answer: detect hostile aircraft

Question: What is the second purpose of air defence?
Answer: destroy them

Question: What is the critical issue in air defence?
Answer: to hit a target moving in three-dimensional space

Question: Projectiles must either be guided to the target or aimed where?
Answer: at the predicted position of the target at the time the projectile reaches it

Question: What two things must be considered in regards to the projectile and target?
Answer: speed and direction

Question: What does NATO define as passive measures to protect people, buildings and equipment from air or missile attacks?
Answer: Passive air defence

Question: Which group is heavily responsible for passive air defence?
Answer: ground forces

Question: Passive air defence includes camouflage and what?
Answer: concealment

Question: What was camouflaged during World War II?
Answer: important buildings

Question: Some airfield runways were painted green during what war?
Answer: the Cold War

Question: How many guns or missile launchers are typically in a battery?
Answer: 2 to 12

Question: In addition to guns or missile launchers, what else comprises the battery?
Answer: fire control elements

Question: Where do batteries typically get deployed?
Answer: in a small area

Question: Which missile batteries often have individual launchers several kilometres from one another?
Answer: SHORAD

Question: Several dozen teams can deploy individually in small sections when what is handled by a specialist?
Answer: MANPADS

Question: It was understood that ammunition needed to explode where?
Answer: in the air

Question: In addition to high explosive, what else was used?
Answer: shrapnel

Question: Airburst fuses could be which two things?
Answer: igniferious (based on a burning fuse) or mechanical (clockwork)

Question: What were hydrogen filled balloons called?
Answer: Zeppelins

Question: What was used as targets in training practices?
Answer: Smoke shells

Question: What was the primary method for HAA fire?
Answer: aimed fire

Question: Along with predicting the gun data from tracking the target, what else needed to be known about the target to enable the aimed fire?
Answer: its height

Question: Another assumption was that the target would maintain a steady course along with what other two factors?
Answer: speed and height

Question: Targets could be how many feet for the HAA to engage them?
Answer: 24,000 feet

Question: What kind of fuses were needed?
Answer: Mechanical

Question: When were improvements developed for these guns?
Answer: throughout the inter-war period

Question: What year was the M1 version approved?
Answer: 1940

Question: Only a few of the 105 mm static mounting AA guns were produced because work had started on which other gun?
Answer: 90 mm AA gun

Question: When did work begin on the 105 mm static mounting AA gun?
Answer: 1924

Question: What kind of guns did the United States end WW I with?
Answer: two 3-inch AA guns