Sentence examples for air artillery from inspiring English sources

The phrase "air artillery" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to artillery systems that are deployed from aircraft or to describe the use of aircraft in support of ground artillery operations.
Example: "The military's air artillery units played a crucial role in the success of the operation by providing aerial bombardment support."
Alternatives: "aerial artillery" or "aviation artillery".

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He issued a plea for help for the city of Homs, which has been blockaded and bombarded for more than a year, including a withering new air, artillery and ground assault that began in late June.

It was not immediately clear whether the activities of a small remaining force would differ significantly from the U.S. mission, which has consisted mostly of advising local forces and providing air, artillery and intelligence support.

But the Israeli military had always stressed that the humanitarian truce would be limited to seven hours and would not cover Rafah, where air, artillery and tank strikes began on Friday after Israel accused Hamas of kidnapping a soldier and killing two others in a suicide bombing.

UN officials said on Monday that more than a third of the population living in rebel-held south-western Syria had fled their homes in response to the government's intense air, artillery and rocket strikes as well as clashes on the ground.

Although the intent was to create three air assault brigades, the reality was an air assault brigade (which was also parachute-qualified), an airmobile brigade, and both ground and air artillery elements (the air artillery was provided by armed helicopters known as ARA).

We have not defeated the Taliban, and the prospect of the Afghan Army doing so without NATO's 130,000 troops plus air, artillery, communications, and operational support, is remote.

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Its anti-air artillery, usually mounted on trucks or in the form of shoulder-fired missiles, has not been effective, according to US Central Command, even on the sporadic accounts they've been fired at all.

Anti-aircraft weaponry also advanced, including defences such as radar and surface-to-air artillery, such as the German 88 mm gun.

They fielded immobile SA-2 and SA-3 SAMs, the backbone of the air defenses, as well as mobile SA-6 SAMs and ZSU-23-4 SelfGs (Self Propelled Anti-Air Gun), portable infantry SA-7s, in addition to thousands of conventional anti-air artillery.

Despite the detailed information this provided and the improved air-artillery cooperation during the battles, the offensives were inconclusive.

A counter-guerrilla war surely required the strictest possible controls on air and artillery.

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