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The Air Defense Artillery is the branch that specializes in anti-aircraft weapons (such as surface-to-air missiles). In the US Army, these groups are composed of mainly air defense systems such as the PATRIOT Missile System, Terminal High Altitude Air Defense, and the Avenger Air Defense system which fires the FIM-92 Stinger missile.
U.S. Army Air Defense Artillery lineage website Archived 17 January 2011 at the Wayback Machine; ADA museum at Fort Sill Archived 28 January 2021 at the Wayback Machine; The Fort MacArthur Museum Association: Air Defense Units in LA – 47th Brigade at Fort McArthur, Calif. some details on U.S. Army Air Defense Command (ARADCOM)
The side-stick is used in many modern military fighter aircraft, such as the F-16 Fighting Falcon, Mitsubishi F-2, Dassault Rafale, and F-22 Raptor, F-35 Lightning 2, Chengdu J-20, AIDC F-CK 1 Ching-Kuo and also on civil aircraft, such as the Sukhoi Superjet 100, Airbus A320 and all subsequent Airbus aircraft, [2] including the largest passenger jet in service, the Airbus A380.
It is currently produced by Raytheon Missiles & Defense. First built in 1995 as a modification of AN/TPQ-36A for search and track role in the Norwegian NASAMS air defense system, the Sentinel radar is deployed with forward area air defense units of the U.S. Army. Mounted on a towed platform, it can be positioned remotely from the rest of the unit.
Air defence commands of the United States Army (6 P) Pages in category "Air defense artillery units and formations of the United States Army" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
The US Army’s air defense units are among the most overworked in the US military, manning missile systems across the globe to provide around-the-clock deterrence against adversaries including ...
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1st Special Purpose Air and Missile Defense Army; 3rd Air Defense Composite Brigade (People's Republic of China) 4th Antiaircraft Missile Division (People's Republic of China) 5th Antiaircraft Missile Division (People's Republic of China) 10 Anti-Aircraft Regiment; 14th Searchlight Battery (Finland) 26 Air Defence Regiment (India) 48 AD ...