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Noun: surface-to-air missile
  1. A guided missile fired from land or shipboard against an airborne target
    "The military base was equipped with surface-to-air missiles";
    - SAM

Derived forms: surface-to-air missiles

Type of: guided missile

Part of: surface-to-air missile system

Encyclopedia: Surface-to-air missile