What is "air defense"

Usage examples of "air defense".

The White House air defense unit, armed with the new Raven shoulder-launched antiaircraft missile, was moved to the rooftops of the Department of Commerce and the General Services Administration.

As for Iraq's air defense forces, they are the least favored service, even though they have borne the brunt of confronting U.

Admiral Kimani of the Home-Star Navy and General Gustavson, Air Defense Force.

And if you could get some air defense artillery on the west coast of the Peninsula de Azuera, it would help at least on that flank.

So when the Army in its infinite wisdom assigned her to Air Defense Artillery she had put on her soldier suit and wandered into the wilderness.

The North American Air Defense Base, called NORAD, was buried inside Cheyenne Mountain.

It does super-sensitive, spooky little things like follow Noriega around before you invade him, or infiltrate the Iraqi capital a few days before the Gulf War air campaign to knock out the central computers that control their entire air defense system—.

That help would come in the form of the newer area air defense ships, particularly the four former U.

DeWolfe tried to comfort his colleagues by explaining that from what he had been able to gather, the air defense system, like the fire alarm system, had a battery backup and so his part of the operation would still be suc­.

The rest of Sierra'll bypass that car, which'll leapfrog forward when it comes out of air defense mode.

The Normandy carries RIM-67 Standard SM-2ER semi-active radar homing air defense missiles, with a range of 93 miles and an altitude of 100,000 feet.

Then the air defense command, Voyska PVO, had failed to detect him, and the child had landed right in front of St.