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High to medium air defense (HIMAD) is a group ofanti-aircraft weapons and tactics to do with defense against high to medium altitude air threats, primarily aircraft and missiles.^[1]HIMAD and its complements,short range air defense (SHORAD) andTerminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD), divideair defense of thebattlespace into domes of responsibility based on altitude and defensive weapon ranges.

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• SAMP/T

• IRIS-T SLM

• Barak-8 (co-developed with Israel)
• Project Kusha

• Bavar-373

• Barak-8 (co-developed with India)

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