The phrase "air force supporting" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to military operations, logistics, or assistance provided by the air force.
Example: "The air force supporting the ground troops played a crucial role in the success of the mission."
Alternatives: "air force assistance" or "air force backing".
In what is almost a sideshow, Libya's air force – supporting one of its country's two rival governments – continues to bomb Isis fighters, but now in co-operation with Egypt.
During the Spanish Civil War, the Condor Legion of the German air force, supporting the Nationalists, bombed the Basque city of Guernica, an event memorialized in Pablo Picasso's painting Guernica.
Her father had been a fighter pilot in the Laos air force, supporting the Americans in their war on neighbouring Vietnam.
With a robust military on the ground and powerful air force supporting the forces, for example in Syria and Iraq, Tehran will be in much better position to direct the conflicts in its own geopolitical and ideological interests, as well as, reduce the number of its casualties.
Slessor continually wrote to the Air Ministry, complaining that Mosquitoes were being used as reconnaissance machines, while over 200 were being used by the RAF tactical air forces supporting the army, and merchant shipping was suffering high losses in the Atlantic.
It argues artillery and air forces supported by seven brigades, three of them heavily armoured, would be enough to deter Russia.
To existing orders for support vehicles, search-and-rescue helicopters and howitzers, the Conservatives added plans to buy F-35 fighter jets for the air force, support ships and Arctic patrol vessels for the navy, plus a polar icebreaker for the Coast Guard, and some transport helicopters.
'The majority of civilian casualties in Afghanistan have been caused by Taliban suicide bombs and roadside bombs.' US Air Force Major John Thomas said that, after a long skirmish and under constant fire from the Taliban, troops of Isaf (the International Security Assistance Force), called for close air force support during an operation in Helmand, where the Taliban have been resurgent this year.
"Large ground forces accompanied by massive air force support, naval forces and intelligence, are taking over targets in Gaza, operating against tunnels and terror activists and infrastructure," said chief military spokesman Brig.
As the initial U.S. invasion of Iraq demonstrated (before the occupation and counterinsurgency war started), a relatively small, high technology American ground force, supporting air power, could dispatch the conventional army of a land power in short order.
By supplying an airbase support advisory team, India can augment the ability of the Afghan air force to support ground operations with troop and cargo movements and deploy Afghan forces across the country.
