air-to-air combat

This need for improvement was not limited to air-to-air combat.

Iraq loses 10 aircraft in air-to-air combat during the day.

But the missiles were long and thin, meant for air-to-air combat only.

All this was to counter Soviet threats in air-to-air combat.

Experience showed that most air-to-air combat over Europe was taking place between these altitudes.

The unit did not suffer any losses in air-to-air combat.

This was the first instance of guided missiles being used in air-to-air combat.

"You mean you actually fight air-to-air combat on those things?"

He'd spent eight years of his life so far training for only one thing: meeting an enemy pilot in air-to-air combat and shooting him down.

During the first part of the war, there was no established tactical doctrine for air-to-air combat.

This was the first time an unmanned aircraft had been used in air-to-air combat.

Our objective here is to teach not strike warfare but air-to-air combat.

August 21 brought the first Marine air-to-air combat but it resulted in mixed results.

This system was designed to improve the effectiveness of the Phantom in air-to-air combat.

For every three hundred missile launches in air-to-air combat, a single strike could be expected.

Although designed primarily as a ground attack aircraft, it also had limited air-to-air combat capability.

They are the first aircraft lost in air-to-air combat by either side during the Vietnam War.

Even in the jet age, modern air-to-air combat can develop into dogfights.

The main role of Fighters is destroying enemy aircraft in air-to-air combat.

From this air-to-air combat, the need grew for better aircraft and gun armament.

Pilots recorded some kills, but the loss ratio in air-to-air combat was even at best.

More serious, the percentage of United States fighters being lost in air-to-air combat was growing.

Like all beam-riders, the K-5 was so limited as to be nearly useless for air-to-air combat.

The total number of Iraqi planes shot down in air-to-air combat since the war began totals 42, including 6 helicopters.

There was no room for indecision in the fast-paced action of air-to-air combat.