The phrase "air defence force" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a military organization responsible for the protection of a country's airspace from aerial threats.
Example: "The air defence force conducted a successful drill to prepare for potential threats to national security."
Alternatives: "air defense unit" or "aerial defense force".
The documents were the work of a man identified by the magazine as Samir Abd Muhammad al-Khlifawi, a former colonel in the intelligence service of Saddam Hussein's air defence force, who went by the pseudonym Haji Bakr, Spiegel says.
Galland also did not make sure all-weather flying was incorporated into pilot training, which was of decisive importance in an effective air defence force.
The effectiveness of what was already an inadequate air defence force was hindered by a lack of coordination between the Army and Navy, shortages of fire control equipment for the guns, and no fire-control radar or barrage balloons being available.
I am giving the order to attack if it crosses the State border".. Soviet Air Defence Force units that had been tracking the South Korean aircraft for more than an hour while it entered and left Soviet airspace now classified the aircraft as a military target when it re-entered their airspace over Sakhalin Island.
According to reports on the Russian agencies Interfax and Tass, the inspection of the aviation group and air defence forces in the central military district involves almost 700 weapons and pieces of military hardware.
As part of the exercises, aircraft were to shoot at ground and air-based targets at newly opened testing grounds near Ukraine's south-east border, while air defence forces were to fire surface-to-air missiles near Astrakhan next to the Caspian Sea, the defence ministry said in a statement.
The air defence forces' headquarters is in a fiercely contested area of the current fighting around Damascus, AFP news agency reports.
The Dnestr radars were accepted for service by the Soviet Air Defence Forces in April 1967 and became part of the space surveillance network SKKP.
Belarus, for example, on paper Russia's closest ally, stands accused by the United States of training Iraqi air-defence forces and selling weapons, including Russian-made ones, to all and sundry.
So far, 15 on the list are in American custody, but those closest to Saddam remain at large.The prisoner ranked highest on the American list is number ten, Muzahim Saab Hassan al-Tikriti, the commander of Iraq's air-defence forces, who was captured last week.
ON MOST days for the past several years, pilots from the Japan Air Self-Defence Force have scrambled to stop military aircraft from China and Russia buzzing Japan's air space.
