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Strategic bombing. Tokyo after the massive firebombing attack on the night of March 9–10, 1945, the single most destructive raid in military aviation history. The Tokyo firebombing cut the city's industrial productivity by half and killed around 100,000 civilians. Strategic bombing is a systematically organized and executed attack from the ...
v. t. e. Asymmetric warfare (or asymmetric engagement) is a type of war between belligerents whose relative military power, strategy, or tactics differ significantly. This type of warfare often, but not necessarily, involves insurgents or resistance movement militias who may have the status of unlawful combatants against a standing army.
The advent of the unmanned aerial vehicle has dramatically revolutionized aerial warfare [6] with multiple nations developing and/or purchasing UAV fleets. Several benchmarks have already occurred, including a UAV-fighter jet dogfight, probes of adversary air defense with UAVs, replacement of an operational flight wing's aircraft with UAVs, control of UAVs qualifying the operator for 'combat ...
A Grumman F-14 Tomcat fighter aircraft firing an AIM-54 Phoenix air-to-air missile, 1982. Aerial warfare is the use of military aircraft and other flying machines in warfare. . Aerial warfare includes bombers attacking enemy concentrations or strategic targets; fighter aircraft battling for control of airspace; attack aircraft engaging in close air support against ground targets; naval ...
Category:Aerial warfare ground equipment. Not to be confused with Aviation support ground equipment for supporting aircraft on the ground, e.g., refueling & deicing equipment, aircraft towing vehicles, baggage carts, aircraft maintenance vehicles, etc.. This category is for articles and subcategories about ground systems for command/control of ...
Films about aerial warfare (4 C, 2 P) U. United States Air Force in fiction (2 C, 5 P) W. World War I flight simulation video games (13 P)
A flying ace, fighter ace or air ace is a military aviator credited with shooting down five or more enemy aircraft during aerial combat. The exact number of aerial victories required to officially qualify as an ace is varied, but is usually considered to be five or more. The concept of the "ace" emerged in 1915 during World War I, at the same ...