missile battery
Rocket firing position
A missile battery is a military unit equipped with missiles and their launching equipment, typically positioned together as a defensive or offensive installation.
The term borrows from artillery, where battery has long meant a group of guns operating as a unit.
A battery may include multiple launchers, radar systems, and command facilities: The air defense missile battery tracked incoming aircraft.
They deployed a Patriot missile battery near the border.
- launcherDevice that sends projectiles
- launch siteRocket departure facility
- radarRadio-wave object detection
- radar lockContinuous tracking fix
- antiaircraftGround-to-sky weaponry
patriot · defense · silo · warhead · tracking · military · artillery · rockets · interceptor · no-fly zone · kill zone · targeting · threat assessment · ammunition · deployment · strike · guidance · armed
- naval weaponstorpedo, naval guns, cannon, naval mines, gun turret
- air defenseair defense, anti-aircraft, anti-aircraft guns, Stinger, Aegis
- ship sectionsbridge, helm, engine room, navigation, flight deck
missile batteryIron Dome
Aerial interception network
THAAD · shield · bunker · bomb shelter · civil defense
missile batterydemilitarized zone
Area barring armed forces
hospital · refugee camp · nuclear-free zone · peacekeeping mission · school
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