Antonyms for air defenseair de·fense

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Princeton's WordNet

1. air defensenoun

   defensive measures designed to destroy attacking enemy aircraft or missiles or to nullify their effectiveness

How to use air defense in a sentence?

1. Jeanne Shaheen:

   There is tremendous hesitancy (about) transferring sensitive F35 planes and technology to a nation who has purchased a Russian air defense system designed to shoot these very planes down.

2. Jack Reed:

   They already have approximately 30 aircraft. They have problems with maintaining and flying those aircraft, the real advantage would be to move in air defense missiles, which I hope they will do, because particularly some of the older ones, Soviet-era, they understand how to use them, since they've trained on them.

3. Yuriy Ihnat:

   Ukraine has been effective in the sky because we operate on our own land, the enemy flying into our airspace is flying into the zone of our air defense systems.

4. Justin Bronk:

   Most Western air-to-ground munitions for close air support are optimized for being delivered from medium altitude, with a targeting pod, and that’s not really viable near the frontlines because of the Russian ground-based air-defense threat.

5. Justin Bronk:

   The idea that Western fighter aircraft would allow Ukraine to operate combat air sorties over Russian territory in any sort of regular sense is just fantasy, the reality is that Western fighter aircraft will also be very constrained by the surface-to-air threat by Russian ground-based air defense systems, just as the Ukrainians currently are.

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