surface-to-air

Adjective

Meaning

operating from or designed to be launched from the ground against an airborne target

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

A-bomb wind bomb breeze Sams antiaircraft airborne air-to-ground airflow midair ground-to-air anti-aircraft uplink sol-air ground-air

Antonyms

air-to-surface air-to-air air-to-ground

Examples

surface-to-air missiles Source: Internet

After being granted "permission from the Yemeni government to fly back to shore", an agent said their helicopter took evasive action during the flight due to fears of shoulder-launched surface-to-air missiles. Source: Internet

And in this command besides the Coastal Air Defence, other air defence assets, including the long-range surface-to-air missiles will all be under one umbrella of this command. Source: Internet

Along with its low radar cross-section, these qualities gave a very short amount of time for an enemy surface-to-air missile (SAM) site to acquire and track the aircraft on radar. Source: Internet

An armed attack on June 19, 2019, by an Iranian surface-to-air missile on an unmanned U.S. Navy MQ-4 surveillance aircraft on a routine mission monitoring the Strait of Hormuz in international airspace. Source: Internet

Beginning in November 1959, in order to counter Soviet surface-to-air missile threats, SAC began adding low-altitude bombing training for its manned bomber force as an adjunct to its legacy high-altitude training. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

surface-modified surface-mountable surface-supplied diving surface-to-air missile surface-to-air missile system surface-to-surface