How to Use air force in a Sentence

air force

noun
  • The Su-34 was supposed to change the Russian air force—and the Su-34M, even more so.
    David Axe, Forbes, 18 July 2022
  • The news of the new heads of the army, navy and air force came amid the roar of supporters.
    Louis Casiano, Fox News, 26 June 2024
  • Arce also announced new heads of the navy and the air force.
    Tara John, CNN, 27 June 2024
  • Read full article The air force said the pilots, aged 34 and 27, both died in the crash.
    Michael Varaklas and Derek Gatopoulos, BostonGlobe.com, 25 July 2023
  • At the time, Martinez Puente was the head of the Cuban military air force.
    Anchorage Daily News, 28 July 2021
  • Its navy and air force comprise the first line of defense.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 21 Oct. 2021
  • Despite the ban, Japan still maintains land, sea, and air forces.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 11 Aug. 2023
  • The Malaysian air force has opened a tender for 36 new light fighters.
    David Axe, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2021
  • The Ukrainian air force said the military downed 20 Shahed drones in the evening.
    Susie Blann, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Feb. 2023
  • Ukraine’s air force, and should have defeated it in the opening days of the conflict.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 11 Mar. 2022
  • The Russian air force doesn't have free rein over the entire country.
    CBS News, 8 May 2022
  • The Ukraine air force said half of the 32 missiles were intercepted.
    John Bacon, USA TODAY, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Israel has tanks, an air force, and the most advanced weapons systems in the world, plus the support of the United States.
    Foreign Affairs, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Afghan air force strikes killed and wounded more than twice as many civilians as in 2020.
    Washington Post, 23 July 2021
  • Ukraine's air force said the missiles were fired by long-range bombers that took off from a Russian air base north of Ukraine.
    Harold Maass, The Week, 28 June 2022
  • The aging MiG-29 is the Ukrainian air force’s most numerous type.
    David Axe, Forbes, 26 Aug. 2022
  • And tracked Israeli air force planes streaking to their Hamas targets in Gaza.
    Greg Palkot, Fox News, 3 Dec. 2023
  • Churchill’s soaring rhetoric and the might of the navy, air force and empire that gave force to his words, enabled the country to go on with the struggle.
    Michael F. Bishop, WSJ, 25 Mar. 2022
  • Now, the Ukrainian air force says the Ghost of Kyiv never existed.
    NBC News, 2 May 2022
  • Afghanistan’s air force is a rare U.S.-backed success story.
    Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2021
  • What’s more, Ukraine’s standing army is just a quarter of Russia’s, and its air force, less than a tenth.
    Valerie Morkevicius, The Conversation, 5 Mar. 2022
  • One asset the Afghan military has that the Taliban lacks is an air force.
    NBC News, 9 July 2021
  • In Ukraine, the country’s air force said air defenses had shot down 24 of 28 drones launched overnight against Ukraine.
    Samya Kullab and Elise Morton, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2024
  • Reports from the city in the afternoon said that airstrikes by the Afghan air force had helped push back the Taliban fighters.
    BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2021
  • Perhaps a Cold War-vintage S-200 that the Ukrainian air force pulled out of long-term storage.
    David Axe, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Biden has already blocked a plan by Poland to send Soviet-era jets to the Ukrainian air force.
    Stephen Collinson, CNN, 7 Apr. 2022
  • Mitchell resigned from the Army, and spent the rest of his life pushing for a strong, independent air force.
    Chris Foran, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 July 2021
  • When the family arrived in Germany for a stopover, Joshua Mast and his wife greeted them at the air force base.
    Dallas News, 24 Oct. 2022
  • Ukraine’s air force said that multiple missiles had been fired at the Kharkiv, Dnipro and Poltava regions in the east of the country.
    Illia Novikov, Los Angeles Times, 25 Dec. 2024
  • The air force’s two major fighter-makers are both working on designs.
    David Axe, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024

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