Sentence examples for warplanes it from inspiring English sources

How much of a regional player the PLA, and thus China, will be in the future depends on how quickly it can buy or build the modern ships and warplanes it still sorely lacks.

But as rebels began to acquire antiaircraft weapons from Qatar and other donors, shooting down helicopters and warplanes, it became harder for the army to restock the base by air, stranding the soldiers with dwindling supplies.

An early - and bad - decision of this government was to carry on with the enormously expensive Eurofighter project when the Soviet warplanes it was designed to combat were not coming any more.

But Putin received a comeuppance in November, when Turkey shot down a Russian warplane it said had violated its airspace.

By mid-afternoon, the reality had become clear: rather than a remotely piloted warplane, it was simply a manned surveillance tool.

An adversary's antiaircraft radar site, for example, can be destroyed by a bomb or missile launched by a warplane; it can be captured or blown up by ground forces; or the enemy soldiers running the radar can be persuaded to shut down the system and just go home.

In June Syria shot down a Turkish warplane, it said by accident, after the jet crossed into Syrian airspace.

It was building an Iraqi nuclear reactor when Israeli warplanes destroyed it in a 1981 raid designed to thwart Mr. Hussein's nuclear ambitions (Mr. Chirac had approved the nuclear cooperation agreement).

In an attempt to keep the German war effort from exploiting the center, 75 Allied warplanes bombed it in 1942.

But when the Iranians trained their guns on the ship on July 23 and two warplanes buzzed it, the only option was to retreat.

The United States disclosed its intelligence material on Thursday, saying the Syrian reactor was "nearing operational capability" a month before Israeli warplanes bombed it on Sept. 6.