What is "surface-to-air missile system"

Usage examples of "surface-to-air missile system".

The radar was attached to a Crotale 2000 surface-to-air missile system, a relatively short-range mobile SAM intended primarily for point defense of airfields and other strategic targets.

But Melody was not as successful in locating early-warning radars, especially a new surface-to-air missile system codenamed Tall King.

The SA-6 was a mobile Soviet-made medium-range surface-to-air missile system, widely exported all over the world.

They revealed the classic tactical deployment of the SA-2 surface-to-air missile system: six missiles on their trailer launchers were arranged in a circle around a semitrailer with a radar antenna.

Strikes me as a hand-held surface-to-air missile system of American manufacture.