fighter-interceptor
Americannoun
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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
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
His tactical units include about twenty fighter-bomber and fighter-interceptor squadrons and a squadron each of transports, reconnaissance aircraft, and helicopters.
From Area Handbook for Romania by Bernier, Donald W.
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