Flak Towers is a building in Call to Power II.
Gameplay[]
Flak Towers enable Cities to significantly bolster their offensive capability against air units. By firing explosive shells high into the air, Flak Towers are an effective way to neutralize aircraft threats.
Great Library entry[]
The term "flak" was an abbreviated name for Fliegerabwehrkanone, the 88-millimeter German-made antiaircraft cannon that was the bane of allied bombers in World War II. While most rapid-firing antiaircraft guns employed much smaller shells, like the 40-millimeter "Bofors guns" preferred by Allied forces against dive-bombers and low-flying aircraft. Flak cannons, some up to 120 mm, were particularly effective against high-flying, slow-moving bombers. The shells, fired up to 2 miles in the air at rates as high as 120 rounds a minute, used radio-waved proximity fuses that would explode within a certain range of the target. Despite continued developments in the early 1950s, flak cannons and other heavy antiaircraft guns were eventually replaced by surface-to-air missiles in the late 1950s and early '60s.
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