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Usage examples of "backfires".
On a terse command from their carrier, they went to afterburner and rocketed southwest toward the Backfires.
With an AS-6 Kingfish missile hanging under each wing, the Backfires, too, were potentially vulnerable, but the Backfire had the ability to run at high Mach numbers and stood a fair chance at survival, even in the face of determined fighter opposition.
The last of the Backfires had just launched their missiles and were turning back northeast at full power as the Eagles raced at twelve hundred knots to catch up.
If there really were Backfires bearing down on them, there was nothing else for him to do.
Her blips were supersonic Tu-22M Backfires, coming in slowly enough to indicate that they were heavily loaded with external ordnance.
Three of the interceptors launched missiles, and they succeeded in killing a pair of Backfires and damaging a third.
The "Zulu" fighters which had scrambled off the deck could not catch the Backfires, the commanding controller on Sentry One noted, cursing himself for not having sent them after the older, less valuable Badgers, some of which they might have caught.
With Soviet Naval Aviation alone we have six regiments of strike aircraft, three each of Backfires and Badgers.
If the Backfires tank up partway down and proceed at max power, two hours.
In two hours he would be leading a squadron escorting a small force of Backfires that was searching for a convoy.
Only the French had scored against the Backfires, succeeding with twenty-year-old Crusaders where the vaunted Tomcats had failed.
They were mainly looking for Bears, the Soviet search aircraft that scouted targets for the Backfires.
The longer he was kept in the dark, the better, because the Backfires would not have much time to loiter this far from their bases.
The second team found two parked Backfires and a missilelaunch vehicle for their Rockeyes to hit, and sprinkled more softballsized bomblets over the runways and taxiways.
The colonel looked over at the blazing pyres that only thirty minutes before had been a pair of Tu22M Backfires.