How to Use air superiority in a Sentence

air superiority

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  • Or, perhaps, Ukraine will finally find a way to network its drone fleets and attain air superiority over its skies.
    — Justin Ling, WIRED, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Ukraine hopes that the F-16s eventually will afford it air superiority in the war against Russia.
    — Katya Soldak, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
  • In Iraq and Afghanistan, the golden hour was possible because the U.S. had air superiority; the enemy had no planes or helicopters.
    — Quil Lawrence, NPR, 2 May 2024
  • Ukrainian forces have struggled to make major gains in their counteroffensive launched a month ago, in part, because of the Russian army’s air superiority.
    — Frederik Pleitgen, CNN, 10 July 2023
  • Ukraine was asked to conduct a ground offensive against an entrenched opponent without air superiority — something the U.S. Army has not done since 1898.
    — Robert Zubrin, National Review, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Europe must also speed up and extend the delivery of F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine, which would enable the country to establish air superiority.
    — Norbert Röttgen, Foreign Affairs, 22 Dec. 2023
  • With the glide bombs, first deployed last year, Moscow has found an inelegant but effective solution to Ukraine’s denial of Russian air superiority since the early days of the war.
    — Serhii Korolchuk, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2024
  • Neither Russia nor Ukraine have air superiority at this time.
    — CBS News, 16 Apr. 2023
  • The jet will likely be multi-role, capable of air-to-air and air-to-ground missions, but with capabilities skewed somewhat toward air superiority.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 7 July 2023
  • The problem is that Ukraine lacks air superiority, which has encouraged its use of an army of drones to execute missions typically reserved for bombers, jets, attack helicopters and high-end drones.
    — Paul Lushenko, The Conversation, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Although Ukrainian commanders insist that even small numbers of Western fighter jets such as the F-16 would be enough to gain air superiority over the battlefield, that seems highly unlikely.
    — Emma Ashford, Foreign Affairs, 10 Jan. 2024
  • F-16s, on which Ukrainians have started to train in anticipation of receiving some from U.S. allies, may not be magical, but air superiority would be a game-changer.
    — Frederick W. Kagan, WSJ, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Ukraine also lacks both air superiority and the 3-to-1 offensive to defensive troop ratio that Western militaries typically want for this kind of push.
    — Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 27 June 2023
  • Both Ukraine and Russia's significant anti-air defenses mean that, almost a year into the war, neither country has gained air superiority.
    — Joel Mathis, The Week, 1 Feb. 2023
  • But the Israeli government believed its neighbors were not foolish enough to invade without air superiority.
    — Foreign Affairs, 24 Oct. 2023
  • But Ukraine increasingly faces a choice of using its limited air defenses to protect large cities and civilian infrastructure or deploy it to the frontline, where Russia is regaining air superiority.
    — Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Critically for Ukrainian aviation, the Russians never secured air superiority over Ukraine thanks to its effective air-defense systems.
    — Carlotta Gall Daniel Berehulak, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Together, these munitions have allowed Ukrainian soldiers to destroy command posts and equipment, defend key cities, and prevent Russia from establishing air superiority.
    — Louis Mazzante, Popular Mechanics, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Initially assigned ground attack duties by racist superiors, the 99th eventually undertook air superiority and bomber escort missions over Italy and Central Europe with great success.
    — Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 23 June 2023
  • Second, Ukraine should prioritize keeping the skies contested, ensuring that neither side enjoys air superiority.
    — Emma Ashford, Foreign Affairs, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Lack of air superiority exacerbates tactical challenges such as jamming and spoofing, while undermining Ukraine’s ability to deny freedom of maneuver to Russia.
    — Paul Lushenko, The Conversation, 16 Feb. 2024
  • The Russians are resisting fiercely, protected by entrenched positions, minefields and air superiority.
    — Marc Santora Tyler Hicks, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2023
  • Ukrainian air defenses are depleted, making any counteroffensive vulnerable to Russian air superiority.
    — Tim Lister, CNN, 16 Apr. 2023

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