Synonyms for surface-to-air
sur·face-to-air

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1. surface-to-airadjective

   operating from or designed to be launched from the ground against an airborne target

   "surface-to-air missiles"

   Antonyms:
   air-to-ground, air-to-surface, air-to-air

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1. List of paraphrases for "surface-to-air":

   ground-to-air, air-to-ground, surface-to-surface, air-to-surface, anti-aircraft

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1. Defense Secretary James Mattis:

   China's policy in the South China Sea stands in stark contrast to the openness of our strategy, what our strategy promotes, it calls into question China's broader goals. China's militarization of artificial features in the South China Sea includes the deployment of anti-ship missiles, surface-to-air missiles, electronic jammers, and more recently, the landing of bomber aircraft at Woody Island.

2. 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.

3. Greg Poling:

   These would be the first missiles in the Spratlys, either surface to air, or anti-ship.

4. Mira Rapp-Hooper:

   I do think surface-to-air missiles are a considerable development, if they have been deployed they are probably China's effort to signal a response to freedom-of navigation operations, but I don't think it is a totally unprecedented deployment.

5. Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk:

   We have to defend ourselves, russia is constantly supplying tanks, surface-to-air missiles and the rest of the stuff. And again everyone knows this. We still use outdated Soviet-style equipment.