air-to-ground
From above, targeting
Air-to-ground describes weapons, communications, or operations directed from an aircraft toward targets or receivers on the earth's surface: air-to-ground missiles, air-to-ground radio contact.
The term belongs to military and aviation contexts, distinguishing from air-to-air (between aircraft) or ground-to-air (from surface to sky).
missile
Self-guided airborne weapon
- strikeForceful impact or stoppage
- attackAggressive act against another
- munitionsMilitary weapons and ammunition
bomb · ordnance · sortie · targeting · payload · fighter-bomber · strafing · gunship · airstrike · combat
radio
Electromagnetic wave receiver
- transmissionSending of information
- frequencyRate of recurrence
- pilotOne who steers aircraft
tower · controller · callsign · cockpit · broadcast · relay · contact · clearance · squawk · transponder
- Air Combatair strike, airstrikes, fighter pilot, bombing run, combat aircraft
- aviation radioVHF radio, pan-pan, copy, over, out
- Munitionsbombs, missiles, bullets, ordnance, warheads
air-to-groundground-to-air
From terrain toward aircraft
surface-to-air · air-to-air · ship-to-air · anti-aircraft · antiaircraft
ground, airs, aired, airing, airy, airily, airiness, airier, airiest