defense systems
Shields against threats
Defense systems are mechanisms or technologies designed to protect against attack or harm.
The term spans military applications—missile defense systems, air defense systems—and biological ones: the immune system is the body's defense system against pathogens.
In computing, defense systems guard against intrusion or malware.
The country invested heavily in its coastal defense systems.
- dronesUnmanned aerial vehicles
- no-fly zoneBanned flight region
- armored vehiclesPlated military transport machines
- electronic warfareCombat via electromagnetic spectrum
- cyber securityProtection of digital systems
naval fleets · firewalls · vaccines · encryption · missile shield · flood barriers · artillery · NORAD · quarantine protocols · Iron Dome · Star Wars program · nuclear deterrent · fighter jets · weaponry · biosensors · command centers · border patrol · countermeasures
- fortificationsfort, fortress, fortresses, citadel, citadels
- defense researchDARPA, weapons labs, military research, weapons testing, naval research
- infrastructurehighways, road construction, railway expansion, power grid, roads
- manufacturingfactories, factory, car factory, assembly plants, electronics factory
- warfarebattle, combat, attack, war, armed conflict
- armiesdivisions, battalions, corps, soldiers, platoons
defense systemssoft targets
Unprotected sites for attacks
vulnerability · defenselessness · open terrain · blind spots