air cover

noun

air cover

Also calledair support
1. the use of aircraft to provide aerial protection for ground forces against enemy air attack
2. the aircraft used in this

Eleven thousand aircraft would bomb preparation and give them air cover.

The question is whose air cover they will operate under and whose objectives they will be pursuing on the ground.

They had no air cover and their exposed columns were like a fish in a barrel.

If he gets his way, U.S. drones may soon be providing air cover to his sectarian armies in Mosul and Tikrit.

The Iraqis need the American presence, and the American training and air cover, but are too proud and timid to admit it.

April 20, 2024flabbergast

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