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saturation bombing

n. an extensive and systematic bombing intended to devastate a large target [syn: carpet bombing, area bombing]

Usage examples of "saturation bombing".

And I would remind you that those were no mere pinpoint raids - it was saturation bombing and you know what that means.

We want big bombers to be able to do tactical missions-precision-kill, close air-support, 'tank-plinking,' even air superiority, as well as antiship and saturation bombing.

But as time wore on, and reports were relayed back along the supply channels of the fires in the fields, the decimation of the cities, the saturation bombing of the planet's surface, the bad news took its toll.

It was a moment of truth, too, because American civilians and ground troops didn't know American bombers were engaged in saturation bombing.

You will be interested to know, sir, that the Royal Air Force is launching a saturation bombing attack on the Zenica Gap at precisely 1.

According to JEVEX, the cities of Hamburg, Dresden, and Berlin were devastated not by conventional saturation bombing but by nuclear weapons.

And what cautious nature of yours led to the saturation bombing of a sector of the planet Tatooine's surface known as the Dune Sea?

There's no way they can catch us short of saturation bombing or nukes, and public opinion is too much against them.