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An airstrike, air strike, or air raid [1] is an offensive operation carried out by aircraft. Air strikes are delivered from aircraft such as blimps, balloons, fighter aircraft, attack aircraft, bombers, attack helicopters, and drones.
- 2019 Balakot airstrike
The 2019 Balakot airstrike was a bombing raid conducted by...
- Church of Saint Porphyrius airstrike
Church of Saint Porphyrius airstrike. On 19 October 2023,...
- 2019 Balakot airstrike
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During the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, the Iranian consulate annex building next to the Iranian embassy in Damascus, Syria was struck by an Israeli airstrike on 1 April 2024, killing 16 people, including a woman and her son, and Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a senior Quds Force commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard ...
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The attack aircraft as a role was defined by its use during World War I, in support of ground forces on battlefields. Battlefield support is generally divided into close air support and battlefield air interdiction, the first requiring strict and the latter only general cooperation with friendly surface forces. Such aircraft also attacked targets i...
After World War I, it was widely believed that using aircraft against tactical targets was of little use other than in harassing and undermining enemy morale; attacking combatants was generally much more dangerous to aircrews than their targets, a problem that was continually becoming more acute with the ongoing refinement of anti-aircraft weapons....
The Junkers Ju 87s of the German Luftwaffe became virtually synonymous with close air support during the early months of World War II. The British Commonwealth's Desert Air Force, led by Arthur Tedder, became the first Allied tactical formation to emphasize the attack role,[citation needed] usually in the form of single-engine Hawker Hurricane and ...
In the immediate post war era the piston-engined ground-attack aircraft remained useful since all of the early jets lacked endurance due to the fuel consumption rates of the jet engines. The higher powered piston engine types that had been too late for World War II were still capable of holding their own against the jets as they were able to both o...
On 17 January 1991, Task Force Normandy began its attack on two Iraqi anti-aircraft missile sites. TF Normandy, under the command of LTC Richard A. "Dick" Cody, consisted of nine AH-64 Apaches, one UH-60 Black Hawk and four Air Force MH-53J Pave Low helicopters. The purpose of this mission was to create a safe corridor through the Iraqi air defense...
More than 80 of the 85 targets were destroyed or rendered inoperable (US estimate) On 2 February 2024, the United States Air Force launched a series of airstrikes targeting Iran 's Revolutionary Guards and Iran-backed militia groups located in Iraq and Syria.
