Anti-aircraft missiles are
guided missiles
In military terminology, a missile is a guided airborne ranged weapon capable of self-propelled flight usually by a jet engine or rocket motor. Missiles are thus also called guided missiles or guided rockets (when a previously unguided rocket i ...
designed to destroy or damage
aircraft
An aircraft is a vehicle that is able to fly by gaining support from the air. It counters the force of gravity by using either static lift or by using the dynamic lift of an airfoil, or in a few cases the downward thrust from jet engine ...
. These include
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air-to-air missile, a missile fired from an aircraft for the purpose of destroying another aircraft
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subsurface-to-air missile, a missile usually launched from below water
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surface-to-air missile, a missile designed to be launched from the ground to destroy aircraft or other missiles
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