Wielding a baseball bat, sluggers are effective long-range fighters.
The Air Force concentrated primarily on long-range fighters and missiles.
In the late spring 1944, it had the long-range fighters to protect the bombers launching sustained attacks on the oil production centres at Ploieşti.
Because of the loss of fuel and the inability to protect the force, the next Frantic missions were composed of long-range fighters.
"In that case it looks as if some bright spark has invented a new long-range fighter, doesn't it?"
"Group are not at all happy about those long-range German fighters," he said.
The Mitsubishi Ki-83 was designed as a long-range heavy fighter.
The F.2 was ordered by the Admiralty in 1916 as a massive, three-seat long-range fighter.
The design for the new aircraft was for a long-range fighter to penetrate deep into enemy territory.
Allied strategists quickly exploited the long-range fighter as a bomber escort.