Flak (disambiguation)

Flak typically refers to the anti-aircraft fire coming at one from anti-aircraft guns, derived during World War II from the German Flugabwehrkanone, for "aircraft defence cannon" in turn derived from 'Flugabwehrgeschütz' (flag). They are listed under Flak Tower

Flak may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional entities

• Flak (Transformers), a fictional character in Transformers
• Flak, a fictional commanding officer in the video game Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising
• F.L.A.K., a fictional weapon in the G.I. Joe universe

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

• Flak, 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 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 media relations representative
• Flack (disambiguation)