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airstrike

n. (alternative form of air strike English)

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Airstrike

An airstrike or air strike is an offensive operation carried out by attack aircraft. Air strikes are commonly delivered from aircraft such as fighters, bombers, ground attack aircraft, and attack helicopters. The official definition includes all sorts of targets, including enemy air targets, but in popular use the term is usually narrowed to a tactical (small-scale) attack on a ground or naval objective. Weapons used in an airstrike can range from machine gun bullets and missiles to various types of bombs. It is also commonly referred to as an air raid.

In close air support, air strikes are usually controlled by trained observers for coordination with friendly ground troops in a manner derived from artillery tactics.

Airstrike (disambiguation)

An airstrike is a military strike by air forces or other military aviation assets against an enemy ground position.

Airstrike may also refer to:

  • AeroWings 2: Airstrike, a combat flight simulator
  • Airstrike (comics), a fictional character
  • Air Strike (1955 film), a 1955 film

Usage examples of "airstrike".

Adrienne's voice had the carrying quality of an airstrike and was usually about as welcome.

We didn't expect cooperation but wanted our findings on record if we needed to take unilateral action, as in the airstrikes against Osama bin Laden's supposed pharmaceutical plant.

Besides, I don't think airstrikes are going to help much in this situation.

Hell, for that matter, they could’ve blasted their way through anything Suka’s System Defense Force could have thrown at them, unless the SDF was prepared to resort to saturation airstrikes Nordbrandt could have invaded the Nemanja Building and taken the entire Parliament hostage on the very first day of her offensive, instead of just bombing it with civilian explosives.

Corvettes are too small to carry assault shuttles, so he can't assist us with airstrikes or troop drops, and while his vessel's armament could take out the entire city with a kinetic strike, heavy HVW aren't very well suited for fire support missions in a situation like this one.

An airstrike by a lone Phantom earlier in the day had sufficiently weakened the west wall of the mission to allow the Chicos to batter it down with recoilless rifle fire.

Eventually the guides helped a young tourist couple use a field radio to call in an airstrike.