The phrase "air capabilities" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to military, aviation, or technology, referring to the abilities or features of aircraft or air forces.
Example: "The new fighter jet boasts advanced air capabilities that enhance its performance in combat situations."
Alternatives: "aerial capabilities" or "aviation capabilities".
The Pentagon's air capabilities are far more formidable than those available to Assad, but few people in the U.S. military expect air power alone to defeat ISIS.
A shift in focus to hotspots in the Asia-Pacific region will support spending on sea and air capabilities, with ground-based combat systems mostly falling out of favour.
By most accounts, China remains a generation or more behind the United States in military technology, and even further behind in deploying battle-tested versions of its most sophisticated naval and air capabilities.
Militarily, this would be a dramatically better outcome than perhaps destroying Assad's air capabilities and crippling a limited amount of his other war machinery.
Iraq bought a batch of second hand Sukhoi Su-25 jets from Russia and Iran last year, as it attempted to boost its air capabilities in its fight against the Islamic State.
While experts concede that China "remains a generation or more behind the U.S. in military technology," and even further behind in "naval and air capabilities... it is now unveiling capabilities that suggest that it intends sooner or later, to be able to challenge American forces in the Pacific".
Military experts disagree on whether the 30-year-old aircraft carrier and its support vessels are truly needed to augment the already impressive Russian air capability in Syria.
"When they got there and they found targets, we didn't have the kind of integration with our air capability to make that bravery effective," Mr. Wolfowitz said.
In a vast country four times the size of Iraq, air capability is critical to Tripoli's projection of central power.
Abbott said his government was "continuing to talk to our partners and allies about how Australia might be able to contribute – whether we should help with some air capability, whether we should help with some military advisers".
But China, which has the world's largest standing army, is beefing up its naval and air capability, unnerving America and its allies in the region.Inevitably, this causes friction.
