What is "air bases"

Usage examples of "air bases".

Within the first few hours, Israeli jets pounded twenty-five Arab air bases ranging from Damascus in Syria to an Egyptian field, loaded with bombers, far up the Nile at Luxor.

If Iraq were also to try to hit the air bases, garrisons, warehouses, and other mustering facilities we would be using in the region, it would expend several hundred missiles in just a few weeks--assuming that it had that many missiles to begin with.

If Iraq were also to try to hit the air bases, garrisons, warehouses, and other mustering facilities we would be using in the region, it would expend several hundred missiles in just a few weeks—.

I would like to offer you unlimited use of Egyptian ports and air bases for your crews.

Briefly, they've started zapping air bases, and I don't want to wait for Edwards to be next.

These had been flown to five different air bases in the eastern part of the country and were already taking off to form up into their combat groups.

All the western desert operations were still keyed toward Scud-hunting at that time, apart from the attention being given to the two huge Iraqi air bases called H2 and H3 that were situated in those deserts.

Fifteen minutes after that, flight crews were given their final brief at four military air bases grouped around the city of Kirovsk on the Kola Peninsula.

The Japs might well wait until MacArthur landed on Luzon, it was thought, for there they had a powerful army and big air bases.

At these two air bases, the arriving Americans found their Russian counterparts, and immediately the various staffs started working together.

As soon as parachutes and survival gear were fixed and ready for service, they were returned to the airplane from which they came, shipped to air bases in the forward areas, or into backup supply.

At these two air bases, the arriving Americans found their Russian counter­.

Those participants who came and went were carried about by military aircraft via military air bases.