Airbases in a sentence

A legal bid to challenge the Home Office's decision to use former airbases to house asylum seekers has been approved by the High Court.

He observed that most of Ukraine's airbases were dispersed and hidden at the beginning of the war to avoid being targeted by Russian missiles.

Russia on Sunday said its forces struck military airbases in the Khmelnytskyi and Rivne regions in western Ukraine and that "all targets were hit".

The official said the balloon flew over the US northwest where there are sensitive airbases and strategic missiles in silos underground.

The IAF rated all of the missile impacts as “ineffective” because they did not damage warplanes, munitions, or critical infrastructure, and operations resumed out of the Israeli airbases within a few hours.

The helicopters are currently based in Pathankot and Jorhat airbases.

America also operates airbases and military facilities equipped with fully-integrated air defense systems featuring 93-mile radar ranges along the western Gulf stretching from Kuwait to the UAE.

It’s partly to do with the country’s geostrategic position: Greenland was a vital site for US airbases during the second world war and the cold war era, and its importance will grow as new shipping routes open up in the high north.

During the Cold War, Norwegian, British, and Icelandic airbases also hindered Russian access to the sea.

All U.S. airbases in the region were listed as emergency/alternate recovery airfields and could be used besides the 35th Squadron's home base at Taoyuan Air Base in Taiwan.

As the efficacy of these missions increased, the number of fighters at the German airbases fell to the point where they were no longer worthwhile targets.

David J. had already agreed to tour American airbases with another band, but decided that joining his friends' group was "the right thing to do".

Extensive testing for dioxin contamination has been conducted at the former U.S. airbases in Da Nang, Phu Cat and Bien Hoa.

Many airbases have arresting equipment for fast aircraft, known as arresting gear – a strong cable suspended just above the runway and attached to a hydraulic reduction gear mechanism.

Moreover, there was never a systematic focus on one type of target (such as airbases, radar stations, or aircraft factories); consequently, the already haphazard effort was further diluted.

New Zealand pilots were aware of the Corsair's poor forward view and tendency to ground loop, but found these drawbacks could be solved by pilot training in curved approaches before use from rough forward airbases.

Some airbases are co-located with civilian airports, sharing the same ATC facilities, runways, taxiways and emergency services, but with separate terminals, parking areas and hangars.

Some are based on US airbases, but most are built by the Greenlandic government.

The 10th Army swept across citation the south-central part of the island with relative ease by World War II standards, capturing the Kadena and the Yomitan airbases within hours of the landing.

The country has four major airbases.