Allied air forces and the Luftwaffe found themselves providing support over the frontline while battling to attack or defend industrial targets.
He flew more than 50 bombing operations to the most heavily defended targets in Germany, including 21 to Berlin.
Because they are unmanned weapons, missiles allow for attacks on heavily defended targets without risk to human pilots.
We're going to attack one of the best defended targets in Afghanistan.
This weapon was designed for use against thinly armored but highly defended targets such as convoy merchantmen or their escorting light warships.
Additionally, the ballistic missile defense capability changed the way Patriot defended targets.
But their military operations have generally been limited to attacks against undefended or lightly defended economic targets like rural power systems and Government farm cooperatives.
It was also deployed on static mountings to defend prominent targets such as dockyards.
In June, his unit was moved to defend Romanian targets against the American 15th Air Force.
The F-117A's attacked even the most heavily defended targets in and around Baghdad with impunity.