Mobile Anti-Air

A Mobile Anti-Air (MAA) vehicle (aka Anti-Air Artillery, Triple A, Air Defense) is a self-propelled artillery piece that is used to repel or defeat enemy aircraft using cannons or guided missiles. Although land-locked and much less mobile than aircraft, it can make use of nearby terrain to supplement its armor and specialized weapons.

Though not designed for use against ground armor or infantry, MAA vehicles can defend themselves against infantry or supplement a ground attack. Certain vehicles can also damage ground armor.


 * Category:Anti Aircraft Vehicles

Battlefield Vietnam
Mobile anti-air vehicles first appear in Battlefield Vietnam, with two seats for a driver and gunner. They are only lightly armored, and thus highly vulnerable against tanks.
 * ZSU-57-2
 * M35A1

Battlefield 2
In Battlefield 2, the driver now operates the anti-air weapons, while the passenger uses his own kit.
 * M6 Linebacker
 * 2K22 Tunguska
 * Type 95 SPAAA

Battlefield 2142
Battlewalkers replace the anti-air role formerly filled by wheeled or tracked vehicles. As the game's iconic vehicle, they appear on all maps in all available gamemodes except Infantry-Only.
 * L5 Riesig
 * T-39 Bogatyr

While the driver's weapons are designed for ground attack, the gunner can use an air-facing autocannon and guided EMP missiles. The walker's bipedal movements make aiming difficult for the gunner, so the operator should remain stationary when possible and alert at all times.

Battlewalkers have very durable armor, and can hold their own against tanks at close range using anti-armor swarm missiles. However the same missiles are inaccurate at long range, giving tanks the advantage. Underneath the walker body, friendly infantry can take cover from air, while enemy infantry can attack weak points with any weapon.

Battlefield: Bad Company series
The BMD-3 Bakhcha AA is the only mobile anti-air vehicle that appears in the Bad Company series. It is only usable in certain singleplayer missions, and on a few maps in BFBC2's multiplayer.

Battlefield 3
Mobile anti-air vehicles in Battlefield 3 are single-seat vehicles initially equipped with a high RPM air defense weapon. It can inflict damage against other armored vehicles, albeit at a very slow rate—in a direct conflict against an average operator, an MAA user can disable the tank before being itself destroyed.
 * LAV-AD
 * 9K22 Tunguska-M

Anti-air missiles and other gadgets must be unlocked through progression. Aside from weapons, anti-air vehicles can unlock most other gadgets available to ground vehicles.

On PCs, MAAs appear on the larger Conquest maps (Caspian Border, Kharg Island,Operation Firestorm, and Wake Island 2014), and on Noshahr Canals and Wake Island 2014 in Rush. On consoles, MAAs are only available on the same Rush maps.