Welcome, coolhandluke!
To further clarify, Germany may move out of the sea zone in combat movement even if its ships end up in a friendly sea zone. Moving to avoid combat in this situation is considered a valid combat move.
Say russia moves an AA to persia, persia is taken by japan, then persia is liberated by the UK.
Who owns the AA gun. What if the gun had been moved to Kazakh & the UK captured it there?
Is ownership specific to the territory or the capturing army?
I believe in most cases the AA gun will belong to the power that captures it, regardless of original ownership. The one exception is an AA gun in a capital, that would go to original controlling power when their capital is liberated. I am curious who would own the gun if say Japan conquered Moscow, moved that AA out in subsequent turn, than moved in another gun from somewhere else to Russia, than Russia is liberated by UK, for example?
Whoever controls the territory controls the gun. I think. :?
I have always played “capture” ownership.
I keep a national marker under each AA gun. When it is caputred, I change the marker. When someone else captures it, i change the marker again.
An AA is a “gray” unit, like an IC. It beloings to whoever seizes it.
The IC belongs to whoever controls the territory doesn’t it?
As does the AA upon taking it.
But, unlike the IC, the AA can be moved, and on the second round of “control” the owner of the AA can move it elsewhere.