air-to-ground

adjective

: launched from an airplane or helicopter at a target on the ground : air-to-surface

The United States has already armed its first generation of unmanned vehicles … with air-to-ground munitions and used them frequently in operations over the past decade.

—Scott Jasper, Securing Freedom in the Global Commons, 2010

an air-to-ground attack

Word History

First Known Use

1935, in the meaning defined above

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