An Anti-Air Missile or Surface-to-Air Missile (SAM) is a guided weapon designed to primarily engage enemy aircraft. Many kinds of anti-air missiles can only be used against aircraft, requiring an active weapon lock in order to launch the missile.

Contents 1 Battlefield 2 2 Battlefield 2142 3 Battlefield Heroes 3.1 Sam's SAM 3.2 Albert's Anti-Air Arrow 4 Battlefield Play4Free 5 Battlefield 3

Battlefield 2Edit

Anti-air missiles are used as secondary weapons on mobile anti-air vehicles, and as emplacements.

Battlefield 2142Edit

The SAAW 86 Anti-Air is available to Engineers as an unlockable weapon that deals direct damage. It is very effective against air vehicles and close-range infantry, but has little effect on ground vehicles and no splash damage against distant infantry.

Gunners in battlewalkers and Rorsch Kz-27 operators can use anti-air missiles that only release EMP. As with other EMP weapons, these can disrupt vehicles, impair vision, and deactivate Active Defense.

Battlefield HeroesEdit

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Anti-air missile launchers are a fairly late addition to Battlefield Heroes, available to the Gunner class. These weapons have the unique ability to lock onto planes, but can also inflict damage against other vehicles and infantry. They do not inflict as much impulse as the standard rocket launchers.

Sam's SAMEdit

Albert's Anti-Air ArrowEdit

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Battlefield Play4FreeEdit

Anti-air missiles are just like their BF2 counterparts.

Battlefield 3Edit

Anti-Air Missile
IR Smoke ← → Belt Speed
Unlocked at	1200 AA Score Complete Anti-air Support for Mobile Artillery
Special Feature	Guided surface-to-air missiles
Vehicle	Mobile AA Mobile Artillery
Vehicle type	Anti-Air
Customization slot	Weapon

"Anti-aircraft missile launchers are mounted on the turret which will lock on to and track enemy air vehicles." — Battlelog descriptionAnti-Air Missile is a vehicle specialization available for AA vehicles and mobile artillery in Battlefield 3. When equipped it acts as a secondary weapon, with a targeting reticle similar to that of Heat Seekers that allows the driver to lock onto and engage enemy aerial vehicles with two heatseeking missiles. American vehicles use FIM-92 Stingers, while Russian vehicles use SA-18 Igla missiles.

Anti-Air Missiles make an excellent complement for the AA vehicle's gun, being able to menace jets and helicopters at ranges that its primary gun is simply too inaccurate at to be useful. The missiles are also extremely useful on mobile artillery as well, allowing a user to effectively eliminate ground targets as well as protect itself from possible airborne enemies. The gunner seats on light anti-air vehicles (the HMMWV ASRAD and Vodnik AA in Endgame) have these as their default secondary weapon.

AA missiles can be deterred with IR Flares and ECM Jammer, and lock-on time slowed by Stealth. If the target vehicle has already deployed flares or ECM and you manage to obtain a lock-on, the twin missiles are almost a guaranteed kill; as such they are almost universally used. Each missile reloads independently, eight seconds after the previous one was fired.

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