Flak (disambiguation)

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

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 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), 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