What is "defense system"

Usage examples of "defense system".

Unlike in 1991, Israel now has its own anti-ballistic missile defense system, the Arrow, which has done well in tests.

She could actually see the contrails as they gained altitude and kissed the stratosphere, high above any ground-based air-defense system.

The Chatovarian defense system was only half-complete: despite buying the company, it was an expensive system, almost three times as costly as the one the small gray men had described, but it was about ten times as good.

The Earth Planetary Bank was paying for Earth's defense system out of petty cash.

There were still hills to hide behind, though one of them had a radar on it, a big, powerful air-defense system.

Compared to the electrical power that this country uses to cook food, the amount needed for a laser defense system is negligible.

He looked out the left cockpit window and could see the first Hawk missile, an American-built air defense system, lift off on a column of fire and speed toward them.

But it was too late--when he activated the missile defense system and jammers, it briefly deactivated the BEADS cloaking device, and the F-14 Tomcat, which had not yet detected the decoy cruise missile, locked on to the B-2A.

But the FlightHawks were able to determine from the type of radar detected what kind of air defense system it was, and if it had a remote launcher setup it would listen for the data transmission between the radar unit and the missile launch unit in a surface-to-air missile battery, compute the location of the launcher, and pass its location to the Wolverine missiles.