surface-to-air missile site

surface-to-air missile site

A plot of ground prepared in such a manner that it will readily accept the hardware used in surface-to-air missile system.
Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. US Department of Defense 2005.
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NATO said a surface-to-air missile site in northern Tripoli was successfully hit overnight, but has thus far not confirmed hitting the residential area.
ON TARGET: The images from a cockpit camera show the pilot locating a surface-to-air missile site and then blowing it up WAR SCENES: Video footage shows flames lighting up the night sky in Kabul, while, below, the craters at Herat airfield are clearly visible; right, a Navy Commander wipes away a tear as she holds a member of a victim's family at the Pentagon memorial service
The three pictures showed what was described as a "terror camp" south of Kabul, a surface-to-air missile site near Kandahar, the ruling Taliban regime's spiritual capital, and a runway near Shindand, in the west of the country.
Identification and location of those targets is expected to significantly improve with the sharing of data from mobile surface-to-air missile site emissions produced by sensor systems installed on available platforms in a theater of operations.
A second was of a surface-to-air missile site near Kandahar.
And on Monday allied pilots bombed a surface-to-air missile site in northern Iraq.
INA also said one civilian was killed when US planes attacked a surface-to-air missile site near the city of Mosul in northern Iraq.
Nato warplanes destroyed several armoured vehicles, a surface-to-air missile site and other Serb forces on Thursday morning.
It meant they had been picked up by a surface-to-air missile site and could be under attack at any second.
Allied aircraft also attacked a Serbian surface-to-air missile site and hit a petrol storage unit in Kosovo.
It features a semi-armor piercing warhead and can be used to target ships, surface-to-air missile sites, strategic assets and exposed warcraft.
Air Force leaders asked to use the fighters to take out North Vietnam's air defenses to eliminate the potential to develop surface-to-air missile sites. The administration refused because they didn't want any bombing near the government in Hanoi for political reasons.

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