What does flak mean?

[Pink5]

Sorry for the ignorance. What does that mean? I was reading a book called The Fall of Berlin. It keeps mentioning flak.

I thought it meant an anti aircraft gun, but then it says stuff like "The flak was so thick you could walk on it." How could you walk on an anti aircraft gun?

So then I thought it meant something like shrapnel but now I am clueless...

[Bombardier]

It means exactly what you thought it did.
The flak is the shrapnel that results from the exploding shell.
:mrgreen:

[Drone_pilot]

Fliegerabwehrkanonen (Flak) AAA (Anti-Aircraft-Artillery)

click on the link below for more info

http://www.ww2guide.com/flak.shtml

[Pink5]

Ah...so it really is both. Thanks for that website link. I wish I could have been a part of weapons planning back in the day. I mean like the way Berlin built dummy buildings so the English would drop their bombs on cardboard. Stuff like that.

[Lordy]

Fliegerabwehrkanonen (Flak) AAA (Anti-Aircraft-Artillery)

click on the link below for more info

http://www.ww2guide.com/flak.shtml
Youre right, or normally you would say Flug-Abwehr-Kanonerie

[Bill Farnie]

“Flak” is what I get from my wife……. sometimes :lol:

[Pink5]

Hyar hyar... I was waiting for that one.