surface-to-air
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- adjective
- /ˈsɜrfɪs tə ɛr/
- Specialized
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tierra-aire
- Radar-guided surface-to-air missiles defend the area.
- surface-to-air missile
So you want, you know, the anti aircraft guns or or surface to air missiles.
- So you want, you know, the anti aircraft guns or or surface to air missiles.
- I heard three somethings and if it'd have been a Sam surface to air missile, I wouldn't be here with you today.
- But we want to arm you guys to the teeth, not just with surface to air missiles, but with the knowledge that's an old meme.
- You know, it was an open source statement or rule that we're always looking for Stinger missiles or surface to air missiles.
- RPGs flying under the rotor surface to air missiles, man pads.
- Sam is a surface to air missile, missile talking on it.
Examples
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In the 1999 Kosovo war, Serbia used surface-to-air missiles as well as camouflage and other deceptive tactics to blunt NATO's air offensive.
Academic text (2005) -
The facility is also surrounded by short-range, Russian-made TOR-M surface-to-air missiles.
Academic text (2012) -
You can buy surface-to-air missiles over the internet.
Fiction book (1998) -
But the tanks are protected by surface-to-air missiles.
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Our surface-to-air launchers just took a direct hit in sector 3.
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These planes were mostly shot down by Soviet supplied surface to air missiles supplied to the Egyptian and Syrian armies.
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We were able to thwart the purchase of $26 million of surface-to-air missiles... ...the terrorist group was planning on buying.
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Your route of ingress is heavily defended by surface-to-air missiles backed up by fifth-generation fighters.
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Civil air traffic resumed for the first time in more than a decade, but the threat of shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles still makes travel to the airport, renamed Baghdad International Airport, dangerous.
Academic text (2005) -
The military deployed several surface-to-air missiles to protect their base from aerial attacks.
Synonyms
Used on the ground to stop or destroy aircraft
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word surface-to-air comes from the simple parts surface ('ground') and air ('sky'), so it literally means 'from the ground to the sky'. That's why a surface-to-air weapon is made to be launched from the ground at a target in the air.