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Definition of Air cover
1. Noun. The use of military aircraft to provide protection against attack by enemy aircraft during ground or naval operations.
Category relationships: Armed Forces, Armed Services, Military, Military Machine, War Machine
Lexicographical Neighbors of Air Cover
Literary usage of Air cover
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cold War in Asia by Cold War International History Project (1996)
"To Comrade STALIN Regarding the question of the transfer of fighter aviation
regiment of "YAK-9s" to provide air cover to Pyongyang, I herewith report: 1. ..."
2. The Final Months of the War with Japan: Signals Intelligence, U. S. Invasion by Douglas J. MacEachim (1999)
"The employment of Baka bombs will be limited by their dependence upon suitable
launching aircraft and orthodox air cover. 4. Reinforcement capabilities and ..."
3. Aerial Interdiction: Air Power and the Land Battle in Three American Wars by Mark (1995)
"Leigh-Mallory successfully insisted that fighters to the greatest extent possible
be used for armed reconnaissance rather than for air cover. ..."
4. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1781)
"... by the down of the peach, for fo does the air cover the ... like a goat's
beard, for as the beard covers the chin of the goat, fo does the air cover the ..."
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