Editing Anti-aircraft warfare (section)

=== Area air defence ===
Area air defence, the air defence of a specific area or location, (as opposed to [[Point-defence|point defence]]), have historically been operated by both armies ([[Anti-Aircraft Command]] in the British Army, for instance) and Air Forces (the [[United States Air Force]]'s [[CIM-10 Bomarc]]). Area defence systems have medium to long range and can be made up of various other systems and networked into an area defence system (in which case it may be made up of several short range systems combined to effectively cover an area). An example of area defence is the defence of Saudi Arabia and Israel by [[MIM-104 Patriot]] missile batteries during the first [[Gulf War]], where the objective was to cover populated areas.