迎撃

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 迎撃 is read げいげき.
• Basic usage: It is a noun for interception—meeting and attacking an approaching enemy or attack—and combines with する to express the action.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• Marking the target
  • In 敵機を迎撃する, を marks what is intercepted.
• Tense and context
  • 相手を迎撃した describes an interception that has already taken place.