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Officials said military staffs were putting the final touches on rules of engagement and on plans to deploy fighter-bombers, tankers, helicopters and surveillance planes to several air bases along Europe's southern rim.
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The JCS quickly approved the bombing of two more dams by fighter-bombers to inundate jet airfields at Namsi and Taechon.
Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011
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There was a grand bargain, however; the money saved from scrapping the escort vessels and submarines would be used to buy the new aircraft carriers and a complement of naval fighter-bombers.
Sheldon Filger: Kiss the Royal Navy Goodbye: UK Economic Crisis Sinks the Fleet Sheldon Filger 2010
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A U-2 flight over British bases in Cyprus revealed large numbers of bombers and transport planes, and another U-2 pilot photographed a squadron of French fighter-bombers on an Israeli airfield.22
Eisenhower 1956 David A. Nichols 2011
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There was a grand bargain, however; the money saved from scrapping the escort vessels and submarines would be used to buy the new aircraft carriers and a complement of naval fighter-bombers.
Sheldon Filger: Kiss the Royal Navy Goodbye: UK Economic Crisis Sinks the Fleet Sheldon Filger 2010
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Yet according to Mr. Gates, North Korea will likely be capable of fielding intercontinental ballistic missiles by 2016; China will soon have its own fleet of stealth fighter-bombers; and Iran may soon have nuclear weapons.
The Case for Reviving the F-22 Fighter Michael Auslin 2011
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Tanks, armored personnel carriers, artillery and infantry weapons of all sorts were lavished on Saigon's army and jet fighter-bombers and helicopters on its air force.
In Bob Woodward's 'Obama's Wars,' Neil Sheehan sees parallels to Vietnam Neil Sheehan 2010
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Tanks, armored personnel carriers, artillery and infantry weapons of all sorts were lavished on Saigon's army and jet fighter-bombers and helicopters on its air force.
In Bob Woodward's 'Obama's Wars,' Neil Sheehan sees parallels to Vietnam Neil Sheehan 2010
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The more the Pentagon pumps money into new fighter-bombers, the more its foes will opt for shadowy, irregular warfare.
Matthew Yglesias » Defending Countries that Don’t Defend Themselves 2009
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But where are the protests from this community when, as it still regularly does, Israel uses fighter-bombers and tanks against the civilian Palestinian Arab population of the occupied territories, for whose security it is supposed to be responsible under the Geneva conventions?
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