Editing Anti-aircraft warfare (section)

=== Mobility ===
{{Unreferenced section|date=February 2024}}[[File:Pantsir-S1 SAM at Engineering Technologies 2012.jpg|thumb|The Russian [[Pantsir-S1]] can engage targets while moving, thus achieving high survivability.]]
Most modern air defence systems are fairly mobile. Even the larger systems tend to be mounted on trailers and are designed to be fairly quickly broken down or set up. In the past, this was not always the case. Early missile systems were cumbersome and required much infrastructure; many could not be moved at all. With the diversification of air defence there has been much more emphasis on mobility. Most modern systems are usually either self-propelled (i.e. guns or missiles are mounted on a truck or tracked chassis) or towed. Even systems that consist of many components ([[Transporter erector launcher|transporter/erector/launchers]], [[radar]]s, command posts etc.) benefit from being mounted on a fleet of vehicles. In general, a fixed system can be identified, attacked and destroyed whereas a mobile system can show up in places where it is not expected. Soviet systems especially concentrate on mobility, after the lessons learnt in the [[Vietnam War]] between the US and Vietnam with the [[SA-2 Guideline]].