Editing Flak (disambiguation)

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'''[[Flak]]''' was introduced to the English language in World War II to refer to the anti-aircraft fire from anti-aircraft guns, from the German ''Flugabwehrkanone'' (Flak), for "aircraft defence cannon".

'''Flak''' may also refer to:

== Warfare ==
* [[Flak tower]], a defensive structure

== People ==
* [[Simon Flak]] (1923–1999), Franco-Polish footballer and manager

==Arts, entertainment, and media==
===Fictional entities===
* Flak, a fictional commanding officer in the video game ''[[Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising]]''
* F.L.A.K., a fictional weapon in the [[List of G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero playsets#F.L.A.K.|G.I. Joe universe]]
* FL4K, a fictional wandering robot in the video game ''[[Borderlands 3]]''

===Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media===
* [[Flak (video game)|''Flak'' (video game)]], an 8-bit computer game published in 1984 by Funsoft
* Flak, a UK band whose music has featured in ''[[Malcolm in the Middle]]''
* ''[[Flak Magazine]]'', an American online magazine, founded in 1998

==Other uses==
* Flak, intense [[criticism]], a metaphor derived from intense anti-aircraft gunfire
* "Flak", a class of the [[Propaganda model#Flak|propaganda model]] advanced by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky
* ''Flak'', "flat land" or "flat sandbank", a component of Germanic language area place names, e.g. [[Flakfortet]]
* [[Flak jacket]], protective clothing worn by soldiers and others to protect themselves from debris and shrapnel

== See also ==
* [[FLAC]] (Free Lossless Audio Codec), an audio data compression scheme
* Flak or Flack, an informal term for a [[Public relations|media relations representative]]
* [[Flack (disambiguation)]]

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