Sentence examples for fighter attack from inspiring English sources

Tactical aircraft include fighter, attack and dual-role aircraft.

Combat experience showed that the heavily armed British and U.S. bombers were more vulnerable to fighter attack than expected.

The first major impetus to aircraft development occurred during World War I, when aircraft were designed and constructed for specific military missions, including fighter attack, bombing, and reconnaissance.

The Junkers Ju 87 Stuka dive bomber was used to great effect during the invasions of Poland, France, and the Low Countries in 1939 40, but its slow speed rendered it vulnerable to fighter attack.

Early versions proved to be more vulnerable to fighter attack than anticipated, but, by the time the B-17E version began to go into service shortly before the United States entered the war in 1941, the plane was equipped with turrets in the upper fuselage, belly, and tail.

They proved, however, to be very vulnerable to German fighter attack whenever they went beyond the range of their own escort of fighters that is to say, farther than the distance from Norfolk to Aachen: the raid against the important ball-bearing factory at Schweinfurt, for instance, on Oct. 14, 1943, lost 60 out of the 291 bombers participating, and 138 of those that returned were damaged.

When this gunner tracked with his machine gun a fighter attacking his bomber from below, he revolved with the turret.

They encountered heavy flak and continuous fighter attacks.

The low losses of the group in the face of fighter attacks were down to the determination of ZG 26.

Islamist fighters attack an army outpost in Sinai, killing 16 soldiers, and mount a brief incursion into Israel, beginning new insurgency.

No. 605, lead by Archie McKellar broke away and delivered a 12-fighter attack scoring some hits on the bombers.