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      • An airstrike, air strike, or air raid is an offensive operation carried out by aircraft. Air strikes are delivered from aircraft such as blimps, balloons, fighter aircraft, attack aircraft, bombers, attack helicopters, and drones.
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    An airstrike, air strike, or air raid is an offensive operation carried out by aircraft. Air strikes are delivered from aircraft such as blimps , balloons , fighter aircraft , attack aircraft , bombers , attack helicopters , and drones .

  3. Jun 3, 2021 · In the modern age of warfare, airstrikes have become a dominant tactic. The recent US-led missions in Iraq and Afghanistan have come to be defined more by air-dropped weapons than anything else, as ground troops have been gradually removed in the face of an onslaught of Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs).

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  4. Feb 3, 2024 · The United States on Friday conducted major airstrikes on dozens of targets across Iraq and Syria in retaliation for a drone attack in Jordan last month that killed three US troops. The strikes...

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  5. Dec 18, 2021 · Hidden Pentagon Records Reveal Patterns of Failure in Deadly Airstrikes. BY AZMAT KHAN. Dec. 18, 2021. The promise was a war waged by all-seeing drones and precision bombs. The documents show...

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  6. Oct 7, 2021 · Broadly, ‘airstrike’ is a method of delivery of several different types of weapon that, definitionally, could encompass everything released from an aircraft, from the dropping of a grenade or landmine to an air-launched nuclear weapon.

  7. Mar 9, 2015 · An aerial armada of 334 B-29 bombers took off from newly established bases in the Mariana Islands, bound for Tokyo. In the space of a few hours, they dropped 1,667 tons of napalm-filled incendiary...

  8. The United States Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps carried out air strikes, code-named Operation El Dorado Canyon, against Libya on 15 April 1986 in retaliation for the West Berlin discotheque bombing ten days earlier, which U.S. President Ronald Reagan blamed on Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.

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