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Do destroyers have antiaircraft guns

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14y ago
Updated: 8/18/2019

Yes, they do. It became standard practice to add antiaircraft guns and autocannons to the defenses of naval vessels (which had previously relied solely on antiaircraft missiles) after lessons learned from the Falklands War, in which Argentine aircraft were able to attack British ships by flying extremely low at altitudes where they could not be engaged by missiles.

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