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Meanings of air fight in English

Russian
воздушный бой
Portuguese
dog-fight
Spanish
combate de ángulos
Catalan
dogfight
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Combat between aircraft, conducted at close range.

воздушный бой
Synonyms
Examples for "dog fight"
Examples for "dog fight"
1
The monotony of his life was occasionally varied with a dog fight.
Monarch, the Big Bear of Tallac
2
Conversation with the men who had taken part in the dog fight.
The new yorker
3
We're in a dog fight now and we have to win games.
BBC
4
It would be like a dog fight, with the dogs muzzled.
With Links of Steel; Or, The Peril of the Unknown
5
Then they'd settle back again till there was a dog fight.
The Entire Project Gutenberg Works of Mark Twain
1
Still, this program makes one wonder about the future of aerial combat.
Wired
2
On the ground, the game is a cover-based stop-and-pop shooter; in the sky, it's free-flight aerial combat.
Wired
3
We're not equipped for aerial combat, Mazer.
Earth Afire
4
Variations of the Maxim gun also saw action in aerial combat, mounted on both Allied and German aircraft.
Wired
5
That could bring airliner-level efficiency, range and cash savings to the normally thirsty, pricey business of aerial combat.
Wired
Usage of air fight in English
1
The soldier's attitude is often that of Captain Ball, the boy who did such wonders in the air fight:-
The Better Germany in War Time: Being Some Facts Towards Fellows...
2
Like most Air Force top guns, Maultsby firmly believed that he could "whip anybody else in an air fight."
One minute to midnight: kennedy, khrushchev, and castro on the b...
3
Since we got all that working we have heard nothing of a machine gun jamming in any air fight at all....
War and the Future: Italy, France and Britain at War
4
On Sunday and Monday there were up to 11 helicopters in the air fighting the fire.
Radio NZ
5
The dark legions of Air fight for us!
The Last of the Barons — Volume 12
6
United States anti-aircraft guns firing at German planes; Germans firing at us; air fights in the sky above.
The War Romance of the Salvation Army
7
'Hier ruht ein tapferer Engländer, gefallen im Luftkampf' (Here lies a brave Englishman, fallen in the air fight), etc., etc.
The Better Germany in War Time: Being Some Facts Towards Fellows...
8
"If, as you say, we cannot fight empty air , Tars Tarkas," I replied, "neither, on the other hand, can empty air fight us.
The Gods of Mars
Translations for air fight
Catalan
dogfight