In March 2017 , Syria launched anti-aircraft missiles towards Israeli-controlled part of the Golan Heights , allegedly targeting Aiming Israeli IAF aircraft , which Syria claimed Statement were on their way to attack Attack targets in Palmyra ( Syria ) .

The Japanese also sank Motion_directional or damaged Damaging three cruisers , three destroyers , an anti-aircraft training ship Sending , and one minelayer .

The helicopter 's identification friend or foe ( IFF ) transmitter was turned off Being_in_operation , because it caused Causation interference Preventing_or_letting with the army 's Rapier anti-aircraft missile system .

To protect Defending the bridge against aircraft , the Americans positioned Placing the largest concentration of anti-aircraft weapons during World War II leading to Causation `` the greatest antiaircraft artillery battles in American history . ''

Furthermore , the RVNAF were prevented Preventing_or_letting from undertaking reconnaissance Scrutiny and ground support Supporting missions due to the threat posed Causation by formidable anti-aircraft weapons deployed Arranging by North Vietnam .

From December 1998 to March 1999 , U.S. aircraft over northern Iraq came Motion under almost daily fire from Iraqi surface-to-air missile sites and anti-aircraft guns .

The most common threat was from anti-aircraft guns .

Also , a new weapon `` Stinger '' , a shoulder-launched Motion anti-aircraft missile was used Using in this conflict Hostile_encounter by the LTTE .

Võ Nguyên Giáp , however , used Using efficient and novel tactics of direct fire artillery , convoy Patrolling ambushes and massed anti-aircraft guns to impede land and air supply Supply deliveries together with a strategy based on recruiting a sizable regular army facilitated Cause_to_make_progress by wide popular support Supporting , a guerrilla warfare doctrine and instruction developed Coming_to_be in China , and the use Using of simple and reliable war material provided Supply by the Soviet Union .

The German ships were sheltering Placing in a strong defensive Defending position in Førde Fjord , Norway , forcing Causation the Allied aircraft to attack Attack through massed anti-aircraft fire .

The number of fighter aircraft and anti-aircraft guns assigned Choosing to defensive Defending duties in the home islands was inadequate , and most of these aircraft and guns had difficulty reaching the high altitudes at which B-29s often operated Control .

Despite these tactical modifications , a series of minor mishaps combined Cause_to_amalgamate with the ever-increasing efficiency of the German anti-aircraft effort proved Convincing to be devastating .

although this supply Supply operation was a success , few of the gliders made it to their landing Self_motion zones in sicily during the two british airborne operations that followed , many becoming Becoming casualties Death of the weather conditions or anti-aircraft gunfire .

The U.S. lost Earnings_and_losses two aircraft to anti-aircraft fire , with one pilot killed Killing , Lieutenant Richard Sather .

The Russian defense Defending ministry said Communication that it had never deployed Arranging anti-aircraft missile systems in Ukraine .