squadron

A unit of two or more squadrons in the U. S. Air Force, smaller than a wing.

a United States Navy fleet consisting of two or more squadrons of small warships.

It continued to be an elite fighter craft assigned only to certain squadrons.

"With twenty-five squadrons of fighters he could defend the island against the whole might of the German Air Force" (Winston S. Churchill).

If you think what it must be like to share the deck of a ship with several squadrons of jet aircraft.

Four tactical air squadrons were placed at readiness for an air strike.

The devastating power of a mothership can wipe out squadrons of enemy ships in the blink of an eye or lay waste to entire planets.

The enemy enjoyed complete air mastery, and we had neither antiaircraft guns nor any airfield from which protecting squadrons might operate.

Games in any one of four aircraft flying squadrons are the order of finish as a victory standard.

He says squadrons will also be created across the country, so that things like this don't happen in the future.

Our hearts were practically pounding out of our chest when we heard the bomber and Stuka squadrons thundering eastward over the division.

When the Air Force canceled one of the F-22 squadrons at Langley AFB, Virginia, deliveries to Elmendorf were accelerated.

Two SAS squadrons are understood to have transferred from Iraq to Afghanistan, joining units of the SBS in Helmand.

The output of factories, hours flown by aircraft squadrons, reports of inspection commissions, and sales figure are often falsified.

There were other auxiliary squadrons, but none was as exclusive or elitist as 601.

On arrival, the Captain divided up the area between the two squadrons.

Torpedo Boats: These give their squadrons a torpedo attack bonus of two, on top of morale, organization and detection bonuses.

But when I walked past these stores, the only signs of life were squadrons of eager shop assistants.

During the Vietnam War, Svendson served with the Air Force's elite Air Commando "special operations" attack squadrons.

The furious onsets of those great squadrons with cuirasses of iron and breasts of steel had ground the infantry to nothing.

A typical Red Flag Alaska involves eight to ten squadrons with a variety of aircraft.

Some of the air squadrons were sent, but, as will be presently related, fared ill.

Half an hour later everything was in its former good order again, only the squadrons were now grey instead of black.

Squadrons of pirates hung around the smaller islands.

Indeed, one hour after, Japanese air squadrons have commenced bombing in the American island of Oahu.

Other squadrons suffered heavy losses too but the RAF pilots were destroying two German planes for every British loss.

The Russian air force is slated to lose squadrons of bombers, fighters and reconnaissance aircraft.

Three squadrons of IJA aircraft bombed and strafed the area causing some damage to about twenty Mongol yurts.

The guys who might best develop the tactics will be the pilots in the operational squadrons captains, mostly.

Apart from that, fighting squadrons landed on two government residences in this region.

Competitive exercises began in 1926 involving Navy and Marine Corps squadrons that worked up to 45-degree dives from 2, 500 feet.

Air Force fighter squadrons at Okinawa's Kadena Air Base and at Misawa on Japan's main island are available for use well away from Japan.

Biscuits were dealt out freely to the soldiers; they even shared them with the other squadrons.

Five Navy squadrons have already transitioned to the radar.

The symbols were first used on US airplanes during World War I to differentiate aero squadrons from each other.

Guyot, who led the Emperor's squadrons to the charge, falls beneath the feet of the English dragoons.

Navy, the AQS-24A has demonstrated very high reliability in the field with the Navy's Helicopter Mine Countermeasures squadrons.

Today, squadrons of F-16's are being transitioned into fully unmanned drone fleets.

These wings are subdivided into six squadrons of 12 fighters each.

Luftwaffe air support would be crucial, but the fighter squadrons of Jagdgeschwader 54 and 52 were outnumbered 20-to-1.

The fighters were deployed in 4 squadrons.

Nagase Wonder how many squadrons we've lost. . . They're all burning now.

As with land units, you can assign "brigades" to naval squadrons as well

forcing the Nazis to move squadrons of Luftwaffe fighters from Russia to defend the Fatherland

nagase checking status of other allied squadrons