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fighter cover |
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The maintenance of a number of fighter aircraft over a specified area or force for the purpose of repelling hostile air activities. See also airborne alert; cover. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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resolutions by "flying U-2 reconnaissance aircraft with fighter cover over Iraq, painted in U. Thus, it makes sense to use attack helicopters within the air defense system of a combined-arms large strategic formation, more specifically, within fighter cover system. The consequences of long-range bombers' operations without fighter cover were catastrophic: 1,150 bombers were destroyed by the end of 1941 out of the 1,339 bombers that were in the aviation corps and separate long-range aviation divisions in the European USSR by the start of the war. |
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