air cover in English

noun
1
protection from aircraft for land-based or naval operations in war situations.
Undeterred, he continued flying, until he finally broke his back, as a wing commander, while providing air cover for the assault on Arnhem.

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1. Whistle stop--need air cover!

2. There's no air cover, nothing.

3. Provide air cover and vector Black Hawks for extraction.

4. Their mission was to neutralize Japanese airfields in the Sakishima Islands and provide air cover against Japanese kamikaze attacks.

5. Duties included the provision of air cover for landings and embarkation, the neutralization of enemy air forces and the mounting of attacks on transport ashore and afloat.

6. North Vietnamese attacks into the Plaine des Jarres were supported by an air cover of Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 fighters, forcing a temporary withdrawal of the RLAF.

7. Despite rain and insufficient air cover, progress was made up the lower ridges of the 900-foot (270 m) Longstop Hill that controlled the river corridor from Medjez to Tebourba and thence to Tunis.