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air observation
(b) In sense ‘of or relating to the air as a sphere of offensive or defensive operations; involved or used in aerial combat’, as air alert, air attack, air blockade, air combat, air defence, air escort, air observation, air offensive, air patrol, air reconnaissance, air superiority, air supremacy, air torpedo, air war, air warfare.
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1874 ‘M. Twain’ & C. D. Warner Gilded Age I. xviii. 233 Colonel Sellers..was the inventor of the famous air-torpedo.
1914 Scotsman 23 Sept. 7/6 On the 28th August..one of the French commanders desired to make an air reconnaissance.
1914 Sphere 26 Dec. 318/1 The possible air attack over London.
1915 Manitoba Morning Free Press 12 Jan. 1/5 The final phases of the air combat were fought at a height of about 9,000 feet.
1915 C. Grahame-White & H. Harper Aircraft in Great War vii. i. 295 (heading) Strategy of an Air Offensive.
1915 C. Grahame-White & H. Harper Aircraft in Great War i. ii. 25 An air reconnaissance would have told him that Blücher..was actually marching north.
1915 C. Grahame-White & H. Harper Aircraft in Great War v. xiv. 252 The axiom that ‘might is right’ may apply very forcibly to the air wars of the future.
1916 Fortn. Rev. 99 1062 Air warfare on the scale indicated..opens up possibilities in the way of air raids for landing considerable bodies of men.
1916 Sphere 29 Jan. 109 (heading) The latest German attempt to challenge British air supremacy.
1916 Sphere 26 Feb. 207/1 (heading) The Problem of Air Defence.
1916 Illustr. War News 8 Mar. 6/1 (caption) A French air-torpedo caught in a tree over a German trench.
1917 Scotsman 17 May 6/1 A sustained naval and air offensive at Zeebrugge.
1922 Encycl. Brit. XXX. 87/1 Air defence..deals with the arrangements which deny to enemy aircraft access to vulnerable points.
1923 R. Kipling Irish Guards in Great War I. 30 Artillery fire, directed by air observation.
1923 R. Kipling Irish Guards in Great War I. 57 The days of the merciless air-patrols had yet to come.
1935 C. G. Burge Compl. Bk. Aviation 553/2 A deliberate attempt was made by both sides to gain air superiority.
1940 E. C. Shepherd Britain's Air Power 7 On an Army front air supremacy is essential to success in these days.
1941 Times Weekly 5 Feb. 2/3 In spite of air alerts and privations, the population have not lost their courage.
1941 N. Macmillan Air Strategy xiv. 109 A true conception of the object of the air blockade.
1941 N. Macmillan Air Strategy xv. 128 Long range air escorts..to protect the fleets of bombers.
1944 Ann. Reg. 1943 29 The British air offensive against Germany..set up a new record.
1959 Times 18 May 7/2 The reason why Strategic Air Command does not maintain an air alert, with aircraft carrying nuclear weapons in the air twenty-four hours a day.
1961 J. Toland But not in Shame v. xxii. 339 When the blowers were off during air attacks, the air soon became fetid.
1972 Newsweek 10 Jan. 14/3 The step-up in the air war might even jeopardize the continuation of the talks themselves.
1981 Aviation Week & Space Technol. 1 June 23 During the European phase of the program, aircrews flew more than 700 missions to evaluate point area defense, force protection, air superiority, [etc.].
1990 A. Beevor Inside Brit. Army x. 110 They work entirely from ground and air reconnaissance reports of Fantasian movements rung in from a central control room.
1991 T. Dupuy How to defeat Saddam Hussein v. 64 The first phase would be devoted to destroying the offensive and defensive air warfare capabilities of Iraq.
1992 J. Peters & J. Nichol Tornado Down viii. 61 Without air superiority, or better still air supremacy, war is unwinnable.
2001 Pop. Sci. Nov. 17/1 (caption) Designed for tasks ranging from air combat to submarine warfare, the MH-60R launches from carriers, destroyers, frigates, or cruisers.
2004 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 14 Apr. a14/2 Was the intelligence information..integrated into any air defense plan for protecting the homeland?
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