It has yet to come to pass in the press or in a major study that a description of the next phrase in combined arms warfare is a mobilized anti-air defense system. 

The idea, which is not an entirely new idea, appears to have been taking shape for quite a while but the recent developments with drones have cast the need for a mobilized anti-air defense system into the fire of human developments. 

A mobilized anti-air defense system is not a Heavy Machine Gun. A mobilized anti-air defense system is a system. It is not anti-air artillery (i.e., AAA). The system must contain four unique components. A mobilized anti-air defense system is a system whose 1) ability to detect, track, or target a missile or drone attack is automated, 2) embedded on a tracked vehicle, 3) operating in motion 4) with manual reloads. 

While there have been multiple articles detailing what an anti-air defense system may be or how it make take shape, the more important question about mobilized anti-air defense systems is not necessarily these four elements, all of which exist individually right now in disparate systems. The more important question is how an anti-air defense systems combines with other arms. 

It is the author’s opinion that an anti-air defense system combines with other arms in a support role to protect the heaviest guns.