Anti-Air Protection
Anti-air protection – action carried out to reduce the efficiency of the actions of the enemy’s air assets. It includes camouflage, dispersion, taking cover, and the use of decoys of various kinds.
Air Defense or Air Superiority is carried out with interceptors or fighter aircrafts that take off from airbase a few minutes after the AEW alert. They use their nose-mounted radar first to detect the target in the search domain designated by the Air Defense system at a distance ranging from 30 to 100 NM. Then they have to track these targets to extract the cinematic parameters (position, velocity vector) in order to compute if the targets are in the missile firing domain and to display this information to the pilot [ScienceDirect Topics].
Missile defense is a system, weapon, or technology involved in the detection, tracking, interception, and also the destruction of attacking missiles. Conceived as a defense against nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), its application has broadened to include shorter-ranged non-nuclear tactical and theater missiles.
Французько-українсько-англійський міжвидовий словник з тактики та логістики. Dictionnaire interamées de termes tactiques et logistiques français-ukrainien-anglais: [в 2-х т.] / Центр розробки Доктрини застосування Збройних Сил Французької Республіки, Київ p.633
Air Defense System. ScienceDirect Topics. Retrieved from: https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/air-defense-system
Nicole C. Evans, "Missile Defense: Winning Minds, Not Hearts", Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, September/October 2004.