Below you will find example sentences with "air defence". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Air Defence in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: defence
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 16
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 26.7 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 8 start, 8 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "air defence" has 2 words and usually appears near the start in these examples. The average sentence has 26.7 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as a unified air defence system, and comprehensive air defence plan, force, systems and ministry stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with air force, air pollution, air ambulance, defence minister, defence ministry and defence staff, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with air defence
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
UAE Air Defence Force *United Arab Emirates Air Defence Force Responsible for aircraft. (13 words)
The defence ministry said on-duty air defence systems destroyed the drone over Bryansk. (14 words)
In 1987, units included twenty air defence brigades (with approximately ninety-five SAM batteries) and two air defence regiments. (19 words)
More than a third of the sales comprised missiles, rockets and air-defence systems, with one of the biggest contracts of 2023 being with Germany, which signed a deal to purchase the Arrow 3 long-range air defence system for around $4bn. (42 words)
Army Air Section (former Air Force) Georgian Sukhoi Su-25 ground attack aircraft main The Strategic Defence Review in 2007 described the Air Force consists of aviation and air defence assets and provides security to Georgia’s airspace. (38 words)
The rumours of a Cypriot iron dome resurfaced after Greek Defence Minister Nikos Dendias told his country’s parliament last month that his ministry had created a “coherent and comprehensive air defence plan”. (33 words)
Example sentences (20)
Much of the air defence system is integrated into the Russian air defence network, and in 2006 the two nations signed an agreement on the creation of a unified air defence system.
Army Air Section (former Air Force) Georgian Sukhoi Su-25 ground attack aircraft main The Strategic Defence Review in 2007 described the Air Force consists of aviation and air defence assets and provides security to Georgia’s airspace.
And in this command besides the Coastal Air Defence, other air defence assets, including the long-range surface-to-air missiles will all be under one umbrella of this command.
More than a third of the sales comprised missiles, rockets and air-defence systems, with one of the biggest contracts of 2023 being with Germany, which signed a deal to purchase the Arrow 3 long-range air defence system for around $4bn.
In 1987, units included twenty air defence brigades (with approximately ninety-five SAM batteries) and two air defence regiments.
The Libyan Air Defence Force was part of the Air Force and had the second largest defence network in the region (second to Egypt).
UAE Air Defence Force *United Arab Emirates Air Defence Force Responsible for aircraft.
In a major boost to India's air defence capabilities, the Indian Air Force (IAF) inducted eight Apache helicopters on Tuesday at the Pathankot Air Base in Punjab.
Russian forces hit a fortified commander post of Ukraine's "East" air defence and alerting centre in the central city of Dnipro, the Russian defence ministry said on Sunday.
The defence ministry said on-duty air defence systems destroyed the drone over Bryansk.
Donating the air defence system exposed Slovak airspace and endangered citizens, said Ìgor Melicher, state secretary at the Defence Ministry and a member of the ruling Smer-SD party.
Germany did, however, promise Ukraine a new package of military aid worth 500 million euros ($540 million) on Thursday, with the defence ministry saying it included "artillery, air defence (and) drones".
In Russia, air defence brought down 17 Ukrainian drones over four regions near the border, the Defence Ministry in Moscow reported on Saturday.
The rumours of a Cypriot iron dome resurfaced after Greek Defence Minister Nikos Dendias told his country’s parliament last month that his ministry had created a “coherent and comprehensive air defence plan”.
China's air force flies almost daily into the air defence zone, or across the median line, in which Taiwan calls "grey zone" warfare designed to test and wear out its forces.
The ongoing assaults have strained 's air defence system and depleted its stock of Patriots, the US surface-to-air missiles.
Ukraine's air defence systems shot down 22 of the Iranian-made Shahed drones, the Air Force said, adding that the attack lasted three and a half hours.
Reuters witnesses reported hearing several blasts in and around Kyiv that sounded like air defence systems hitting air weapons.
The air force said air defence systems had downed 19 Iranian-designed attack drones overnight out of a total of 21 deployed by Russia.
The air force said Russia launched nine attack drones, with Ukraine's air defence systems destroying eight of them over the Ukraine's Mykolaiv region.