It can also be used to monitor air-to-air and air-to-ground communications between and among others.
Washington could rely on ship-to-air and air-to-air missiles, but they would be less effective against low-flying craft.
The Seawolf submarine, the C-17 transport aircraft, several different air-to-ground and air-to-air missiles are in the cross-hairs.
After combat operations exposed deficiencies, allies also worked to standardize air-to-air refueling nozzles and connecting bombs to aircraft.
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And all our hearts afire, the sky ablaze with cannon fire, we all raise our voices to the air, to the air.
The suit was also designed with a vent to move both warm air to keep Baumgartner from freezing, and cold air to keep his helmet from fogging.
These include: eight sophisticated diesel submarines, advanced SU-30 fighter aircraft, modern air-to-air and air-to-surface weapons, supersonic anti-ship cruise missiles and as many as 350 short- and medium-range ballistic missiles.
It said that officials were considering extending the life of the RAF's VC10s - due to be retired from service in March - then using the Tristar, which goes out of service next year, to meet air-to-air refuelling needs until the new planes are ready to take over.
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Just prior to the war in Iraq, Phillips became the first female journalist to fly in an F-14 air-to-air combat training mission over the Persian Gulf.
In the case of the air, that would mean an air force primarily devoted to air defense.
The problem is--assuming the F-35 sees the light of day in a timely manner--that this aircraft simply doesn't do the job in air-to-air combat that the F-22 does, nor does it have the F22's ability to penetrate sophisticated defenses.
Britain has also helped with air-to-air refuelling, thus extending the effective range of America's carrier-based bombers, and agreed to the use of Diego Garcia, a British island in the Indian Ocean, as a base for heavy bombers.
An Israeli F-16 shot the drone with air-to-air missiles, an Israeli military official told CNN.
The self-guided Russian R-77 medium-range air-to-air missile is almost as good as the U.S. AIM-120 AMRAAM.
The Nimrod spy plane exploded on 2 September 2006, shortly after undergoing air-to-air refuelling.
There has been little in the way of air-to-air combat so far during the conflict with Yugoslavia.
Britain will purchase Meteor air-to-air missiles from a European consortium rather than an off-the-shelf product from America's Raytheon.
UAVs could be as effective as manned fighters at dropping bombs, air-to-air combat and silencing the enemy's air defences.
The aircraft maintains the air-to-air combat ability of the main F-15 fighter as the pilot can detect and fire at other aircraft.
In 1989, a U.S. fighter jet destroyed a U.S. satellite by firing a modified air-to-air missile into space from an altitude of 80, 000 feet.
The agreement includes plans for common maintenance and training on the A400M transport aircraft - which both countries are acquiring - and the possibility of France using the UK's air-to-air refuelling aircraft, when there is spare capacity and training.
The standing order is for the Air Force to increase that number of air patrols to 65 a day by May 2014, although officials say that is an arbitrary number not based on an analysis of future combat requirements.
The air suspension allows the Ram to climb 2 inches in the air to better clear obstacles off road.
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She used an air monitor to measure the air quality in the back seat of a car.
Since rising air causes clouds to form (the risen air eventually cools to the temperature of its elevated surroundings, and any water vapour it contains thus condenses), the result would be more rain than would fall in the absence of the artificial aerosols.
Even as we continue to monitor air and water quality, we have asked and are asking BP to be transparent about the measurements that it is taking as it relates to air and water quality.
The council will now produce an action plan detailing measures to improve air quality and there are plans to set up an air quality steering group.
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Winfrey is giving every indication that this will be a serious interview, not a puffy up close and personal like the kind that air during the Olympics and used to air on Wide World of Sports when we were kids.
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