Examples of 'combat air patrol' in a sentence

Meaning of "combat air patrol"

combat air patrol - Combat Air Patrol (CAP) is a type of flying mission for combat aircraft used to protect an area, such as a naval task force, from enemy aircraft
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  • A patrolling force of fighter aircraft tasked with covering and screening a friendly asset (such as an aircraft carrier or a flight of bombers) in order to defend it from incoming hostile aircraft.

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Fighter jets are on combat air patrol now.
Both of our combat air patrol planes are responding to an SOS near Khark Island.
A weapons controller recommits a fight from an intercept mission to a combat air patrol mission.
See also combat air patrol.
It will be employed as part of a strike package or combat air patrol CAP.
Group airplanes on combat air patrol drove off the escorting fighters.
As before, a great many of these were shot down by combat air patrol.
Redepon the combat air patrol to the search. Bad idea.
All PAF missions were to conduct Combat air patrol in the area.
FastCAP, Combat air patrol to protect fighter strike aircraft.
Throughout this ordeal Panamint directed the Combat Air Patrol attacks in repelling the enemy.
Combat air patrol pilots, to the deck immediately!
During a torpedo run, the attacking aircraft were easy targets for defending combat air patrol fighters.
With Enterprise providing combat air patrol cover, Hornet was to steam deep into enemy waters.
Drop tanks were commonly used with the Zero, even on Combat Air Patrol CAP.

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In addition, the combat air patrol fighters that she directed splashed 28 enemy aircraft.
After the aircraft were refuelled, 800 NAS began launching Sea Harriers on combat air patrol sorties.
Combat air patrol ( CAP ) is a type of flying mission for fighter aircraft.
There, the unit was tasked with flying combat air patrol mission over the Aegean Sea.
Combat air patrol Intruder ( air combat ) Offensive counter air.
Independence provided night reconnaissance and night combat air patrol for Task Force 38 during this operation.
Combat Air Patrol ( CAP ) destroyed many Japanese planes, and Emmons shot down six.
Second, they pulled the Japanese combat air patrol ( CAP ) out of position.
American Combat Air Patrol F4F Wildcats downed 17 aircraft, although some still got through the defenses.
The Peruvian Mirages flew combat air patrol missions in 1995 during the Cenepa War.
Combat Air Patrol is a flight simulator video game edited by Psygnosis in 1993.
Anti-aircraft fire and Lexington Combat Air Patrol planes shot down 17 of the 18 attackers.
Shōhō provided a combat air patrol over the invasion convoy until sundown Morison, pp . 32.

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