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air cover

n. the use of military aircraft to provide protection against attack by enemy aircraft during ground or naval operations

Usage examples of "air cover".

The more experienced troopers fired back coolly, while Miles yelled into his headset for his air cover.

It was his opinion that trying to get that close in again would be suicide unless we were willing to risk sending in some serious air cover, which I'm not.

No air cover, no radar, not the faintest chance of helpl The Germans have us pinned down to an inch now-and it'll be easier still for them as we go on.

A hunting party from the Russian base had been gunned from above and three Siberians and a Sherpa had been killed before their air cover had shot down the intruder.

We'll have to put a defensive air cover over the place, then spread out our force off the island where the main town is and the Japanese troops are situated.

With no way of stopping the mujahedin rebels from being supplied with Stinger antiaircraft missiles by the United States, they had lost their air cover, which in turn meant the dismal prospect of either escalating the war beyond international tolerance or settling in to fight a protracted war of attrition that would inevitably lead to unrest at home and the disruption of his economic and social restructuring programs.

I could give him some air cover, and I could get an additional fifteen battalions to him in ten days if there was another invasion, but I needed some things in return from Daniel.

The Rogues prepare to take on the air cover the Vong have over the warriors now occupying Dantooine.