Crossword clues for air-to-air
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
a. (context of a missile English) fired from an aircraft in flight at another one
WordNet
adj. operating between or launched from or involving rockets or aircraft in flight; "air-to-air missiles"; "air-to-air communications" [ant: surface-to-air, air-to-surface]
Wikipedia
Air-to-air can refer to:
- Air-to-air combat
- Air-to-air missile
- Air-to-air photography
- Air-to-air refueling
- Air-to-air rocket
Usage examples of "air-to-air".
To the bare-bones fuel requirements he added five minutes on afterburner in case of air-to-air combat and ten minutes to orbit Bitburg for landing.
An attack by tactical fighters against Iceland was expected at any time, and the bomber crews knew that any NATO fighter pilot worthy of his name would instantly jettison his bombload for a chance at air-to-air combat with so helpless a target as a twenty-year-old Badger.
An all-weather interceptor, the F-14 has transoceanic range, Mach 2 speed, and a radar computer fire-control system that can lock onto and attack six separate targets with long-range Phoenix air-to-air missiles.
American aircraft were equipped with experimental Firedevil air-to-air missiles which not only explode on impact but hurl searing flames all about.
The first EB-52 Megafortress battleship that would lead the attack carried longer-range standoff weapons, including four Russian Kh-27 antiradar missiles in the forward bomb bay, eight Kh-15 long-range inertially guided missiles on the rotary launcher in the aft bomb bay, four R-60 heat-seeking air-to-air missiles on each external pylon, and two FlightHawk unmanned combat aircraft on wing pylons-unfortunately, the FlightHawks did not carry any weapons of their own.
And all the AIM-54C missiles in the fleet had been decertified for several months, taking away what should have been the most capable air-to-air missile in the Navy.
The AWACS overhead will be accompanied by four F-111 attack craft equipped with air-to-air and air-to-surface missiles.
It was a Navy or Marine Corps F/A-18 Hornet, the primary carrier attack plane, which also had a good air-to-air capability.
He arrived just in time to see Number Three take an air-to-air missile right on its exhaust nozzle.
The rendezvous was automatic--the tanker's navigation computers performed the entire operation, backed up by occasional updates by the B-2A's synthetic aperture radar transmitting in air-to-air mode--and a few short minutes later, the KC-10's flying boom was nestled into the B-2A bomber's in-flight refueling receptacle.
By their operating radius I would estimate that they're carrying air-to-air missiles and aux fuel tanks for max endurance.
It appeared that all of the aircraft were Hokums, and that they were armed for air-to-air combat, carrying two missiles each.
The missiles were new Russian Novator KS-172 Pithon "Python" air-to-air missiles, designed specifically for use against airborne radar planes and intelligence-gathering aircraft by homing in on their radars and electromagnetic emissions--they could even home in on the stray electronic emissions from computer screens leaking through the cockpit or observation windows.
To their north at an altitude of 30,000 feet was an escort consisting of twelve F-16 and sixteen F-5 aircraft, outfitted for air-to-air combat.
They could have put some of their own choppers up to run interference, but my boys are pretty good at air-to-air -- we train for it, and my pilots really like the idea of making ace on their own -- but their chopper drivers aren't getting all the gas they need for operational training.