bombing raid
Attack from above
A bombing raid is a military attack in which aircraft drop explosives on a target.
The term emphasizes the sudden, concentrated nature of the assault: The city endured nightly bombing raids during the war.
Raid implies a swift strike rather than sustained bombardment.
- airstrikeAircraft-delivered military attack
- precision strikeTargeted military attack
- displacementRemoval from usual location
- war traumaCombat-induced psychological damage
- shock and aweSwift dominance through firepower
civilian casualties · firebombing · Battle of Britain · explosive ordnance · enemy territory · London Blitz · humanitarian crisis · search and rescue · rebuilding efforts · sortie · Dresden · war zone · ground zero · payload · target zone · incendiary bombs · rubble · crater
- raidsforay, incursion, blitz, maraud, marauding
- military attacksair strike, sneak attack, surprise attack, blitz, blitzkrieg
- warfarebattle, combat, attack, war, armed conflict
- Air Combatair strike, airstrikes, fighter pilot, combat aircraft, Sparrow
- airstrikesairstrike, air strike, strafing, strafing run, firebombing
- gunfireshoot, gunshot, artillery fire, fire, gunfire
bombing raidground assault
Attack by foot soldiers
ground combat · hand-to-hand combat · trench warfare · land invasion · ground offensive
bombing raidhumanitarian mission
Organized aid to suffering populations
peacekeeping mission · rescue mission · evacuation · ceasefire · peace accord
bombing raidair defense
Protection from aerial attack
anti-aircraft defense · civil defense · humanitarian airlift · rescue mission · peacekeeping mission
bomb, raid, bombed, bombing, raider, bomber, bombard, bombshell, bombardment