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a. (context of a missile English) fired from the surface at a target on land or water
Usage examples of "surface-to-surface".
The take from the electronic cameras was cross-linked to a communications satellite over the Indian Ocean, and from there to the Washington area, where technicians still wearing chemically impregnated surgical masks started looking for the airplane-shaped surface-to-surface missiles.
If the Americans increased certain if their leading ships to flank speed, they would fire surface-to-surface missiles by 1000.
There would be some live firings of surface-to-air and surface-to-surface missiles on dates yet unspecified (weather considerations had yet to be resolved, the release said).
The escorting force has a total of maybe thirty surface-to-surface missiles.