surface-to-air missile

“SA-6s are the least of our concerns for CAS in the modern age of surface-to-air missile system proliferation,” the official said.

He still required men who knew how to operate heavy weapons such as, say, surface-to-air missile batteries.

Orders were given to use a new weapon, an S-75 Dvina surface-to-air missile, or SAM.

Russia supplied Syria with 36 mobile Pantsir-S1 surface-to-air missile launchers in 2007 at a cost of $900 million.

If a surface-to-air missile capability did exist at that time, the Chinese would have supplied the necessary replacements.

Air defense units received Soviet equipment between 1948 and 1961, including that required at a few surface-to-air missile sites.