air attack
Strike from above
An air attack is a military assault delivered from aircraft—bombers, fighters, or drones striking ground or naval targets.
The term covers everything from precision strikes to large-scale bombing campaigns: The city suffered repeated air attacks during the war.
Also used for defensive scenarios: The base prepared for a possible air attack.
- bomberExplosive-delivery aircraft or saboteur
- bombing runCombat aircraft attack mission
- carpet bombingWidespread aerial bombardment
- drone strikesUnmanned aircraft weapon deployment
- Battle of Britain1940 aerial campaign over England
fighter jet · target acquisition · flak · shrapnel · radar systems · strategic bombing · sortie · strafing · stealth aircraft · precision bombing · surgical strike · shock and awe · anti-aircraft artillery · antiaircraft · interdiction · drone · missiles · Operation Desert Storm
- DunkirkDunkirk spirit, evacuation routes, rescue boats, Dunkerque, channel crossing
- offensive tacticsblitz, raid, rush, sweep, drive
- aerial firefightingwater bomber, scooper, Erickson, retardant, fire retardant
- wind techniquesembouchure, articulation, fingering, tonguing, breathing
- football playsplay-action pass, slant, counter, draw, sweep
- Marine Insuranceunderwriter, insurer, salvage, Lloyd's, subrogation
air attackground attack
Assault on land targets
ground assault · ground combat · ground offensive · naval attack · amphibious assault
air attackair defense
Protection from aerial attack
anti-aircraft defense · air cover · aerial defense · anti-aircraft fire · air patrol
air, attack, attach, contact, attacker, aerial, aerate, aerialist