head-on attack

Throughout 1943 head-on attacks had proved successful against American heavy bombers.

This eliminated the B-17's main defensive weakness in head-on attacks.

Things happen fast in a head-on attack and in two or three seconds we had passed directly over them.

A head-on attack, however, exposed one directly to the enemy's guns.

The Luftwaffe knew this and exploited the advantage of the head-on attacks.

While this reduced defence against head-on attacks, the aircraft was operated mainly at night.

The former had crops to get in, and the latter were not numerous enough to make a head-on attack on a fortified town.

Keeps have a massive amount of health (about twelve million points) and generally cannot be destroyed by head-on attacks.

We are in position for a head-on attack."

Holmes, making a head-on attack, found his guns inoperative.

One thing was quite certain: a brute-force, head-on attack was bound to fail.

He kept squirting energy balls at alien space fighters, who were addicted to head-on attacks.

I did three head-on attacks on four Bf110s - they just missed my radiator and shot away my controls.

This is a backward step, and a head-on attack on the system of international law that took so much to construct following the two world wars.

Crossley led a head-on attack and downed one Do 17 while his squadron damaged several others.

The concentration of most of the crew in the glass nose made the He 111 vulnerable to concentrated fire from a head-on attack.

As he had suspected, only the top and front of the vehicles had been armored for a head-on attack on the palace gates.

His losses, Gavin reasoned, would grow progressively worse if blunt head-on attacks continued.

In dogfights the head-on attack found favor.

When the first rank of bombers was about two miles away, Flash took his flight out of orbit and led it into a head-on attack.

That inefficient design could only be acceptable in order to provide a smaller target silhouette in head-on attacks.

The most effective way to attack the Superfortress was by making very dangerous head-on attacks, changing their approach path as they neared the bombers.

Alone against the hostile force and with only half of his guns working, Herbst made a head-on attack against the top group, killing the leader.

The Germans didn't dare risk a head-on attack and, when the armistice was signed, most forts were untaken.

Major Hackl asserted, "The head-on attack was the only way to knock down the bombers.