air strike
空袭,空中打击,空袭行动,空袭事件
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- : the bombing or strafing of a city, enemy force, etc., by military aircraft: The air strike devastated the enemy's submarine base.
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Five days into the latest conflict, more tanks and troops arrived at the border, with heavy shelling and air strikes continuing against Palestinian rocket attacks.
Cytokine storms were thought to represent a kind of risky, doomsday immune response—akin to calling in an air strike on your own position while badly outnumbered in the middle of a firefight.
The influential al Qaeda propagandist, who was born in New Mexico, died in a U.S. drone strike later that year.
Should lightning strike and Hillary Clinton forgoes a presidential run, Democrats have a nominee in waiting.
And Air Force assessors are the first to say such imaging never tells the whole story.
Sprawled on chaise lounges with their knees high in the air and their legs spread wide.
Indeed, Lion Air, with 45 percent of the domestic Indonesian airline market, has swallowed the Fernandes formula whole.
Bells were pealing and tolling in all directions, and the air was filled with the sound of distant shouts and cries.
It is to be remembered, however, that a few of these bacteria may reach the sputum from the upper air-passages.
We had now approached closely to the foot of the mountain-ranges, and their lofty summits were high above us in mid-air.
He stood, with the air of a hero, both arms extended towards the amazed pair of lovers.
Their method of curing the leaves was to air-dry them and then packing them until wanted for use.