air-to-air
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- They had in production cruise missiles, air-to-air missiles, and anti-tank guided missiles.
- air-to-air missile
- air-to-air combat
But yeah, we're going out doing an air to air mission.
- But yeah, we're going out doing an air to air mission.
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But anyways, we're doing an air to air mission out there.
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With just a thumb and a big red button, off goes one AIM-120C air-to-air missile, "to take out an enemy fighter from 23 miles away."
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You now have air-to-air threat in your sector.
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In air-to-air combat, he has no equal.
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One is primarily air-to-air, and the other is primarily air-to-ground.
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You'll engage in air-to-air combat with your flight instructors.
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He was engaged in air-to-air combat when his French Nieuport was shot down over Germany.
Academic text (2003) -
But in air-to-air combat, your best weapon is agility, and this gunship is agile, mobile, and hostile.
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AWACS played a critical role in giving coalition aircraft a significant advantage over Iraqi fighters in the air-to-air combat that occurred during the first week of the war, and thereby contributed, along with the excellent training of coalition pilots, to the one-sided results and brief duration of the air war.
Academic text (1991) -
The fighter jet was equipped with advanced air-to-air missiles designed for combat against other aircraft.
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Etymology
The term air-to-air literally means 'air to air', so it describes missiles, radar, or communication that move or work between aircraft while they are flying.