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air de·fense
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air defensenoun
defensive measures designed to destroy attacking enemy aircraft or missiles or to nullify their effectiveness
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air defense
Air defense, also known as anti-aircraft warfare, is any method, strategy, or technology used to defend a geographical area, object, or military force from an enemy attack by aircraft, missiles, or other airborne threats. This typically involves the use of various weaponry, radar systems, and fighter aircraft to detect, intercept, and neutralize or destroy the attacking forces.
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air defense
Defensive measures designed to destroy attacking enemy aircraft or missiles in the atmosphere, or to nullify or reduce the effectiveness of such attack. Also called AD. See also active air defense; aerospace defense; passive air defense.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of air defense in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of air defense in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
Examples of air defense in a Sentence
They’ve seen a lot of the potential patterns in terms of routes and the way the Russians plan their missile salvos, so they’ve got better at positioning their air defense teams.
We do see a very distinct Russian set of command and control in the eastern part of Ukraine, command-and-control, air defense, support to artillery, all of these things increased ... making a more coherent, organized force out of the separatists.
They already have approximately 30 aircraft. They have problems with maintaining and flying those aircraft, the real advantage would be to move in air defense missiles, which I hope they will do, because particularly some of the older ones, Soviet-era, they understand how to use them, since they've trained on them.
Air defense technology has matured and is now able to counter some of the aspects of stealth. This is part of what has to happen as we continue to evolve stealth technology. Stealth is not an on and off thing. The stealth aircraft that we have in development today are very different than the original stealth that we talked about.
To be able to employ The F-16 effectively, Ukraine would have to achieve some degree of air superiority, this means Ukraine would have to destroy Russian S-400 air defense systems first and foremost, and preferably S-300 too.
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