Definition of Air-to-air

1. Adjective. Operating between or launched from or involving rockets or aircraft in flight. "Air-to-air communications"


Definition of Air-to-air

1. Adjective. (context: of a missile) fired from an aircraft in flight at another one ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Air-to-air

air-intake
air-lock
air-mobile
air-proof
air-pump
air-pumps
air-raid shelter
air-raid shelters
air-raid warden
air-raid wardens
air-resistance
air-ride
air-shot
air-slake
air-tight
air-to-air (current term)
air-to-air missile
air-to-air missiles
air-to-ground
air-to-ground missile
air-to-surface
air-to-surface missile
air alert
air ambulance
air ambulances
air attache
air attack
air bag
air bags
air ball

Literary usage of Air-to-air

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Look at Tomorrow's Tactical Air Forces by Lane Pierrot, Jo A. Vines, Shaun Black (1997)
"The Air Force suggests that countries possessing advanced air-to-air ... The Navy also expressed concerns about current and future air-to-air missiles. ..."

2. Clausewitzian Friction & Future War by Barry D. Watts (1996)
"In the Yom Kippur War of 6-24 October 1973, the Israeli Air Force claimed to have downed some 265 Egyptian and 130 Syrian planes, mostly in air-to-air ..."

3. The Small Business Innovation Research Program: The First Decade (1993)
"The goal of this program was to establish the feasibility of introducing the effects of terrain in the simulation of air- to-air rotorcraft engagements ..."

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