5" guns will not kill shoot you. As was said, you must have been bombed or something. You will see people on CVs shooting at friendly planes all the time. Tough not to when they take off right next to the 5"ers.
As for the kill shooting, 5" or 88mm Flak batteries would just put the furball a bit farther away from the field. As it is now, I can shoot the wing off a plane and someone will chase it to the ground blazing away at it the whole time.
88mm flak batteries (5"ers) at fields would help defend against attacks, but mainly against low level, lawn mowing Buffs. The 88s would be taken out as easy as any manned ack now. They are after all "Manned" and not armored.
Coordinated attacks can take out ack with no problem. It gets done routinely. Ack killing you is just the risks you take. If you’re the only one taking it down, you are either brave or stupid. LOL, Probably the latter if your complaining about it killing you.
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