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air-superiority
[ air-suh-peer-ee-awr-i-tee, -or-, -soo- ]
adjective
- designating a fighter aircraft built for long patrol capability at high altitudes and supersonic speeds, with air-to-air combat as its principal mission.
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of air-superiority1
Example Sentences
The Super Hornet is a twin-engine warplane designed to fly from either aircraft carriers or ground bases on both air-superiority and ground-attack missions.
The Super Hornet is a twin-engine warplane designed to fly from either aircraft carriers or ground bases on both air-superiority and ground-attack missions.
It is not an air-superiority aircraft, and is 1970s technology.
Production of the much more capable F-22 stealth fighter was shut down after producing a mere 187 of the air-superiority jets.
For one thing, the “Su-33 is an air-superiority fighter designed to provide air defense to friendly naval forces far away from home shores,†not to attack ground targets.Â
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