How to Use air superiority in a Sentence

air superiority

noun

• In Iraq and Afghanistan, the military was able to rapidly treat injuries because the U.S. had air superiority.
  — NPR, 3 June 2024
• Or, perhaps, Ukraine will finally find a way to network its drone fleets and attain air superiority over its skies.
  — Justin Ling, WIRED, 4 Jan. 2024
• Ukraine hopes that the F-16s eventually will afford it air superiority in the war against Russia.
  — Katya Soldak, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
• In Iraq and Afghanistan, the golden hour was possible because the U.S. had air superiority; the enemy had no planes or helicopters.
  — Quil Lawrence, NPR, 2 May 2024
• Ukrainian forces have struggled to make major gains in their counteroffensive launched a month ago, in part, because of the Russian army’s air superiority.
  — Frederik Pleitgen, CNN, 10 July 2023
• Ukraine was asked to conduct a ground offensive against an entrenched opponent without air superiority — something the U.S. Army has not done since 1898.
  — Robert Zubrin, National Review, 12 Jan. 2024
• Europe must also speed up and extend the delivery of F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine, which would enable the country to establish air superiority.
  — Norbert Röttgen, Foreign Affairs, 22 Dec. 2023
• With the glide bombs, first deployed last year, Moscow has found an inelegant but effective solution to Ukraine’s denial of Russian air superiority since the early days of the war.
  — Serhii Korolchuk, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2024
• Neither Russia nor Ukraine have air superiority at this time.
  — CBS News, 16 Apr. 2023
• The jet will likely be multi-role, capable of air-to-air and air-to-ground missions, but with capabilities skewed somewhat toward air superiority.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 7 July 2023
• The problem is that Ukraine lacks air superiority, which has encouraged its use of an army of drones to execute missions typically reserved for bombers, jets, attack helicopters and high-end drones.
  — Paul Lushenko, The Conversation, 16 Feb. 2024
• Although Ukrainian commanders insist that even small numbers of Western fighter jets such as the F-16 would be enough to gain air superiority over the battlefield, that seems highly unlikely.
  — Emma Ashford, Foreign Affairs, 10 Jan. 2024
• F-16s, on which Ukrainians have started to train in anticipation of receiving some from U.S. allies, may not be magical, but air superiority would be a game-changer.
  — Frederick W. Kagan, WSJ, 4 Oct. 2023
• Ukraine also lacks both air superiority and the 3-to-1 offensive to defensive troop ratio that Western militaries typically want for this kind of push.
  — Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 27 June 2023
• Both Ukraine and Russia's significant anti-air defenses mean that, almost a year into the war, neither country has gained air superiority.
  — Joel Mathis, The Week, 1 Feb. 2023
• But the Israeli government believed its neighbors were not foolish enough to invade without air superiority.
  — Foreign Affairs, 24 Oct. 2023
• But Ukraine increasingly faces a choice of using its limited air defenses to protect large cities and civilian infrastructure or deploy it to the frontline, where Russia is regaining air superiority.
  — Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 22 Mar. 2024
• Critically for Ukrainian aviation, the Russians never secured air superiority over Ukraine thanks to its effective air-defense systems.
  — Carlotta Gall Daniel Berehulak, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2023
• This is why Ukraine has placed such a tremendous focus on developing and producing drones as a practical, efficient and economical way of counteracting Russia’s immense air superiority and their dependency on the West’s military aid.
  — Ihor N. Stelmach, Hartford Courant, 26 Jan. 2024
• Together, these munitions have allowed Ukrainian soldiers to destroy command posts and equipment, defend key cities, and prevent Russia from establishing air superiority.
  — Louis Mazzante, Popular Mechanics, 23 Feb. 2023
• Initially assigned ground attack duties by racist superiors, the 99th eventually undertook air superiority and bomber escort missions over Italy and Central Europe with great success.
  — Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 23 June 2023
• Second, Ukraine should prioritize keeping the skies contested, ensuring that neither side enjoys air superiority.
  — Emma Ashford, Foreign Affairs, 10 Jan. 2024
• Lack of air superiority exacerbates tactical challenges such as jamming and spoofing, while undermining Ukraine’s ability to deny freedom of maneuver to Russia.
  — Paul Lushenko, The Conversation, 16 Feb. 2024
• The Russians are resisting fiercely, protected by entrenched positions, minefields and air superiority.
  — Marc Santora Tyler Hicks, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2023
• Ukrainian air defenses are depleted, making any counteroffensive vulnerable to Russian air superiority.
  — Tim Lister, CNN, 16 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024