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air-to-air en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, of an act or action) With the participants being two or more aircraft in flight.
    • The attack also afforded Helena to a front-seat view of literal air-to-air melee combat, as one Wildcat pilot of the Cactus Air Force, who was swooping in to help break up the attack, found himself out of machine-gun ammo; instead, he dropped his landing gear, positioned himself above the nearest bomber, and begun beating it to death, in midair, using his landing gear as clubs. After a bit of evasive action that the fighter easily kept up with, the repeated slamming broke something important, and the bomber spiralled down into the sea. 2021 March 10, Drachinifel, 5:50 from the start, in Guadalcanal Campaign - The Big Night Battle: Night 1 (IJN 3(?) : 2 USN), archived from the original on 17 Oct 2022:
  2. (not-comparable, of a missile) Fired from an aircraft in flight at another one.

Relateds

air-to-ground · surface-to-air · air-to-surface · ground-to-air

Translations (8)

pl powietrze–powietrze (fired from an aircraft in flight at another one) · de Luft-Luft (fired from an aircraft in flight at another one) · ru во́здух-во́здух (fired from an aircraft in flight at another one) · uk пові́тря-пові́тря (fired from an aircraft in flight at another one) · cs vzduch-vzduch (fired from an aircraft in flight at another one) · mk воздух-воздух (fired from an aircraft in flight at another one) · tr havadan havaya (fired from an aircraft in flight at another one) · fr air-air (fired from an aircraft in flight at another one)