@Krieghund:
@Hobbes:
@Butcher:
I believe this rule has been the same for Classic, Revised, AA50, and AA42.
Actually the change came if AA50 if I’m not mistaken.
Nope, it’s always been this way.
Concerning ownership of recaptured AAs? The Revised manual states: “When you liberate a territory containing a captured AA control reverts to the original owner”. This is ambiguous regarding what original ownership meant (the territory or the AA Gun), but on the official online errata it clearly says:
“If I liberate a friendly power’s territory, what happens to the antiaircraft guns and industrial complexes there?
They are returned to the control of the original controller.”
The change came to the current rules came with LHTR, not with AA50 as I mentioned above.
EDIT: Krieghund, you are right on all of the above. The wording on the errata is also ambiguous. My mistake.