fighter-interceptor

American  

[fahy-ter-in-ter-sep-ter] / ˈfaɪ tərˌɪn tərˈsɛp tər /

noun

Military.

1. a fighter plane used for the defense of a region against air attack, especially by attacking bombers.

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Example Sentences

Another involved a U.S. fighter-interceptor that flew over Soviet-held Big Diomede Island while chasing off a Soviet bomber near the Aleutian Islands.

From Time Magazine Archive

Before long, the Pentagon proved Jones right by scrubbing the fighter-interceptor program.

From Time Magazine Archive

As a full partner in the U.S. air-defense network, its men operate 43% of the Nike-Hercules missile sites around key cities and maintain 52% of the fighter-interceptor forces that are always on round-the-clock runway alert.

From Time Magazine Archive

After more than a year of knee-and-gouge competition, Belgium had decided to buy the company's F-16 fighter-interceptor instead of the French Dassault Mirage F1-M53 as a replacement for aging U.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

In 1973 there were six fighter-bomber, twelve fighter-interceptor, and three reconnaissance squadrons.

From Area Handbook for Bulgaria by Baluyut, Violeta D.