Flak (disambiguation)

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Flak refers to anti-aircraft warfare, derived during World War II from the German FlugabwehrKanone, for "aircraft defence cannon".

Flak may also refer to:

• Flak (or Flack), an informal term for a media relations representative
• Flak (Transformers), a fictional character
• Flak jacket, protective clothing worn by soldiers and others to protect themselves from debris and shrapnel
• Intense criticism, a metaphor derived from intense anti-aircraft gunfire; e.g. "I'll have to take the flak for my department's mistakes."
• "Flak", a class of the Propaganda model advanced by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky
• "Flat land" or "flat sandbank", as a component of Germanic language area place names, e.g. Flakfortet
• Flak Magazine, an American online magazine, founded in 1998
• Flak, an 8-bit computer game published in 1984 by Funsoft
• Flak, a UK band whose music has featured in Malcolm in the Middle TV series
• Flak, a fictional commanding officer in the Advance Wars video games
• F.L.A.K., a fictional weapon in the G.I. Joe universe
• Flak, a powerful weapon on FTL (Faster Then Light)(Also the Adv. Flak, and Flak 2).

See also

• FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec), an audio data compression scheme