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Flak was a projectile-based weapons system, usually ground-based, that was used against attacking air- and spacecraft. AT-AAs used flak systems, as did flak guns aboard various capital ships. The shells could use either proximity or timed fuses and exploded with showers of shrapnel. They could be highly dangerous to enemy combat airspeeders or starfighters, but much less so against other, larger classes of fighting ships. They were often used as a point-defense weapon.

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Flak is a real-world term for most types of projectile-based (as opposed to missile-based) ground-stationed anti-air weaponry. It is an abbreviation of the German word Flugabwehrkanone, which literally translates to "air defense cannon". Though a colloquialism, it is generally accepted as being interchangeable with such technical terms as Anti-Aircraft Artillery (AAA or Triple A).

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