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Antiaircraft artillery

Antiaircraft artillery (AAA) is a type of artillery that specializes in the interdiction and destruction of aircraft. Typically the guns range from 25mm to 90mm bores, often mounted in groups of 2 or 4, are capable of being elevated all the way to vertical, and have some sort of speedy and responsive tracking/aiming system.

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