"threat" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- In execution, Canadian investment in air defense has decreased significantly with the decline of the intercontinental strategic bomber threat.
- Some of this is due to improved technology but more is due to the decline of the bomber threat and reductions in Canadian military spending.
- But Dowding, too, had his critics, who regarded his focus on air defence as an obsession that was futile against the bomber threat.
- He was making a tour of all Fighter Command bases, lecturing on the German bomber threat.
- In retrospect, the Soviet bomber threat was grossly exaggerated, but it cannot be denied that the presence of the F-86D interceptor was an important deterrent.
- The mission of the Eleventh Air Force moved inexorably from statically defending Alaska against a bomber threat to committing its forces to worldwide deployment.
- He hinted that he considered the Russian bomber threat, which the Arrow had been designed to answer, a declining factor.
- The squadron maintained alert against the ever-present Soviet bomber threat.
- The F-14 was designed to combat highly maneuverable aircraft as well as the Soviet cruise missile and bomber threats.
- As defense systems against manned bomber threats were reduced, it was activated once again in 1974 to replace the 637th ADG.
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