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Air Defence Artillery Before Ww1

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ADA most people wouldn't know what that stands for right away and that isn't a bad thing but for many of my friends and family ADA also known as air defence artillery is there life and there future. Today i'm going to take us back to the start to when ADA to a time when it was just a thought. WW1 the war to end all wars as it was called back then pushed the world forward in so many ways from riches and success to the winners to inventions and innovation. Before ww1 there was no need for ADA nobody have ever thought of putting a weapon on a plane to straff over soldiers and the back lines. But militaries are always trying to find new and better ways of killing each other. The air force was just one of the few new inventions to kill each other …show more content…

This is the first time that ADA was used but it wasn't called ADA yet it would still be a long time before ADA would get its name. The first time
Air defence was used was britain during the great defence of great britain during 1925. The term
Air defence Artillery came around in the 1950 when air defence was still a part of the artillery branch then in 1968 we got the authorization to wear the aritarly insignia only with a missile in the middle and ADA was officially born the slogan of “First to fire” didn't come until later referring to how ada was the first to shoot back at japan during the attack on pearl harbor.
ADA in WW1 of course wasn't called that but for simplicity we are going to at first commanders on the battlefield didn't know how to stop these planes from flying over head and
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getting almost unlimited amounts of information from troop movements to where base was and what the enemy's numbers where all the things that could give your side a huge advantage in the fight to come. With trench warfare of ww1 troops when from trench to trench mostly staying in the same spot fighting for every inch of land. Commanders soon realized that something would have …show more content…

That is when air defence really had to get ready and decide what they were going to do and develop new technology to fight the growing threat.
WW2 the next time that ADA was need in a extreme way this was the first war where ships had battle without even seeing each other. WW2 was the start of ADA making its own appearance in the world and growing the the size where it could be its own branch. New technology was coming out on both sides the air and the air defence from new weapons like 40 and 50 mm AA guns to the preferred plane of the japan the zero it had better armor and a higher rate of speed than any other plane at the start of WW2. these were just some of the problems that ADA where facing at the start of ww2 ada wasn't its own branch yet so it was under manned under gunned and had way to much area to cover as it with war most of the time but you make it work with what you have and that's just what those men and boys did. Defending their position to the very end. Now after the end of WW2 the army has finally decided it is time to create ADA.

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