air attack in English

assault from aircraft, attack launched from airplanes or helicopters

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1. The concrete and buried fortifications are resistant to this air attack.

2. Tone engaged the American destroyer Heermann but was driven away by air attack.

3. 20 They were warned to expect a heavy air attack and by inference many casualties.

4. Nagato and Kongō had been moderately damaged by air attack from Taffy 3's escort carriers.

5. Instead, at the battle of Rennell Island, the enemy subjected TF 18 to a scathing air attack.

6. The task force was under heavy air attack by the Luftwaffe all day and was withdrawn that evening.

7. High level air-attack was not judged to be a threat against fast and manoeuvrable ships like destroyers.

8. At 19:20 that night, a major air attack began while the task force was under way off Kwajalein.

9. Things progressed well until the 16th, when the Japanese mounted a heavy air attack to attempt to finish off cruisers.

10. She screened Langley on 25 January and witnessed an air attack upon the ship by planes of the "black" fleet.

11. Guderian had been promised extraordinarily heavy air support during a continual eight-hour air attack, from 08:00 am until dusk.

12. Desperately outnumbered and fighting in deeply inhospitable conditions, these Anzacs found themselves engaging in a long retreat through Greece, under constant air attack.

13. On leaving Kendari harbour on 24 January 1942 she evaded the invading Japanese fleet in a rain squall and survived an air attack.

14. Most critically, Iran can use the system to harden air defenses around its multiple nuclear sites, making any potential future air attack significantly more difficult.

15. On 5 April Kingston found the Leone-class destroyers Pantera and Tigre aground south of Jeddah whose hulls, having been scuttled by the Italians, were subsequently destroyed by gunfire and air attack.

16. This page shows answers to the clue Antiaircraft.Antiaircraft may be defined as “Artillery designed to shoot upward at airplanes”, “Designed for or used in defense against enemy aircraft” and “Designed for defense from a surface position against air attack”.

17. He ordered a counter-attack against it by the 15th Panzer Division and the 164th Light Division, with part of the Italian XX Corps to begin at 15:00 but under constant artillery and air attack this came to nothing.