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Skysweeper
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antiaircraft gun
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Army introduced the Skysweeper, a 75-millimetre automatic cannon firing 45 shells per minute, aimed and fired by its own radar-computer system. With the introduction of guided surface-to-air missiles in the 1950s and ’60s, heavy antiaircraft guns such as this were phased out, though radar-guided automatic guns of 20…
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