WordNet
n. that part of the flight that begins with the approach to the target; includes target acquisition and ends with the release of the bombs
Usage examples of "bombing run".
Hunter knew he'd have to ride shotgun for Jones for the whole bombing run.
It was an Antonov, the predatory, slow-moving reconnaissance plane whose incessant growl was the usual herald of faster, noisier jet aircraft on a bombing run.
That had been the main reason that he had canceled any orders for a second bombing run on Tatooine's Dune Sea.
Six armed RB-47E aircraft, flying abreast, crossed the North Pole and penetrated Russian airspace in broad daylight, as if on a nuclear bombing run.
The SAM-vulnerable big bombers could only be expected to make one ground-hugging bombing run, then scoot.
The third A-7 had to divert from its bombing run due to heavy groundfire.
Worse, two more of the attacking Thunderbolts were hit by ground fire on their bombing run and went down in side-by-side fiery crashes.
Then the haggard Scholes and an intelligence officer led them through the bombing run.
It was clear to him, like the red electronic 'scope lines of a bombing run.
Further down the wall, where the first break had been cut with the first bombing run, Sarnak's men came pouring out, some fleeing the city, the rest grim and turning to face their enemies, while from the positions back by the tunnel the last of Sarnak's reserves rushed forward to try and catch the counterattack on the flank and throw it back.