Aerial warfare is the use of military aircraft and other flying machines in warfare. Aerial warfare includes bombers attacking enemy installations or a concentration of enemy troops or strategic targe
A United States Air Force F-4 Phantom II releasing aerial bombs over a bombing range in Bardenas Reales, Spain in 1986
World War I fighter planes over Europe, 1915–1918
Gari Melchers War Highsmith
An air force in the broadest sense is the national military branch that primarily conducts aerial warfare. More specifically, it is the branch of a nation's armed services that is responsible for aeri
Aerial warfare
…associated sensor systems, command and control arrangements and passive measures (e.g. barrage balloons). It may be used to protect naval, ground, and air forces in any location. However, for most countries the main effort has tended to be 'homeland defence'. NATO refers to airborne air defence as counter-air…
Four fighters (F-15 and F-16) and a KC-135 of the USAF
Tupolev Tu-22M3 of the Russian Air Force
Changhe Z-10 of the PLA Air Force
TAI Anka of the Turkish Air Force