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air strike

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See also: airstrike

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air strike (plural air strikes)

  1. (military) An attack on a ground or naval target by one or more aircraft or missiles.
    • 2025 June 26, Kasra Naji, “When Iran's supreme leader emerges from hiding he will find a very different nation”, in BBC:
      Iran's known nuclear facilities that earned the country nearly two decades of US and international sanctions, with an estimated cost of hundreds of billions of dollars, are now damaged from the air strikes, although the full extent of this has been hard to assess.

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