land-based fighter

They were too far at sea for any hope of land-based fighter protection.

"No, but in six hours we'll be outside of land-based fighter cover.

The air force built a land-based fighter: that's first-generation stealth technology.

They were challenged by some 30 land-based fighters, which they promptly shot down.

The Fulmar was not well matched with land-based fighters.

However, it proved to be greatly out-classed by contemporary land-based fighters and only 20 were built in 1939.

Land-based fighters were vectored out to intercept the enemy planes and shot down nine.

The Condors also bombed convoys beyond land-based fighter cover and thus defenceless.

Single-seat land-based fighter version for the Iraqi Air Force.

A7M3 : Proposed land-based fighter version with supercharged Ha-43 engine.

The IJNAS also frequently used the type as a land-based fighter.

Seven Allied Escort aircraft carrier, along with land-based fighter planes from Corsica, provided air cover.

It is almost identical to the F/A-37, although it is a white land-based fighter instead of a black carrier-based one.

Many land-based fighters also have tailhooks for use in case of a brake/tire malfunctions, aborted takeoffs, or other emergencies.

Land-based fighter and bomber aircraft on these islands controlled the sea lanes to Japan and protected their home islands.

A7M3-J : Proposed land-based fighter version.

Eventually his unit was awarded the Presidential Unit Citation for their escort work of land-based fighters over the Japanese homeland.

Further development of the FT as a land-based fighter, almost identical to the XFT except for retractable undercarriage.

The Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm operated land-based fighters in defence of naval establishments and carrier-based aircraft.

It would have been a deadly adversary flying from a carrier, and was no less potent as a land-based fighter in the relatively constrained waters of the South China Sea.

In response, the P-40s of the 11th Fighter Squadron from Fort Glenn AAB along with Naval land-based fighters attacked the Japanese aircraft.

Royal Navy doctrine was that it needed a navigator to cross ocean wastes and that it could operate as a fleet interceptor fighter since it would not meet land-based fighters.

The RAF Hawker Henley failed to fulfil that role whilst the Blackburn Skua was expected to double as a fighter when out of reach of land-based fighters.

Kawanishi engineers, however, had proposed in late 1941 that the N1K would be the basis of a formidable land-based fighter too, and a land-based version was produced as a private venture by the company.

"About fifteen minutes ago the aircraft carrier Ranger, her escorts, several Navy fighters, and an Air Force reconnaissance plane were attacked by Chinese land-based fighters and bombers south of the Philippines."