air-to-air missile

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   a missile designed to be launched from one airplane at another

   Broadermissile

Questions about air-to-air missile

What does air-to-air missile mean?

air-to-air missile means "a missile designed to be launched from one airplane at another".

Is air-to-air missile a common word?

air-to-air missile is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.