How to Use air superiority in a Sentence

air superiority

noun
  • The third and most likely situation is that one side will gain drone air superiority over the other.
    — David Hambling, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
  • Or, perhaps, Ukraine will finally find a way to network its drone fleets and attain air superiority over its skies.
    — Justin Ling, WIRED, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Neither Russia nor Ukraine have air superiority at this time.
    — CBS News, 16 Apr. 2023
  • In a war with China, securing air superiority would be paramount.
    — George F. Will, Washington Post, 27 May 2026
  • Ukrainian forces have struggled to make major gains in their counteroffensive launched a month ago, in part, because of the Russian army’s air superiority.
    — Frederik Pleitgen, CNN, 10 July 2023
  • Accounts say that this action helped save Israel by giving the country a fighting chance in the war by establishing air superiority.
    — Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 19 Nov. 2024
  • The second phase typically involves the use of aircraft to acquire air superiority.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 5 Apr. 2026
  • In other words, air superiority has not translated into regime collapse, which makes the leap to occupation even harder to imagine.
    — Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 17 Mar. 2026
  • The jet will likely be multi-role, capable of air-to-air and air-to-ground missions, but with capabilities skewed somewhat toward air superiority.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 7 July 2023
  • To date, Russia’s VKS has failed to achieve air superiority or dominance over most of Ukraine.
    — Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 20 Apr. 2026
  • But the Israeli government believed its neighbors were not foolish enough to invade without air superiority.
    — Foreign Affairs, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Ukraine hopes that the F-16s eventually will afford it air superiority in the war against Russia.
    — Katya Soldak, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Neither side has achieved air superiority, making airpower far less significant than in other modern conflicts.
    — Justin Bronk, Foreign Affairs, 15 Dec. 2025
  • Such a presence would provide surveillance and reconnaissance but would struggle to maintain air superiority if challenged by the Russians.
    — Tim Lister, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2025
  • With air superiority established over Iran, Israel has already secured the means to exercise this strategy option over and over again.
    — David A. Deptula, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
  • While Katz did not use the term ‘air occupation,’ maintaining air superiority and preventing Iran from doing those things might inevitably require one.
    — Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
  • Such capabilities could present a unique, and unusual, challenge to Israel’s air superiority.
    — Samuel Granados, Washington Post, 10 July 2024
  • The problem is that Ukraine lacks air superiority, which has encouraged its use of an army of drones to execute missions typically reserved for bombers, jets, attack helicopters and high-end drones.
    — Paul Lushenko, The Conversation, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Making sure Washington could attain such air superiority would call for more fifth- and sixth-generation fighter jets that can take down Russian attackers.
    — Elaine McCusker, Foreign Affairs, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Both Ukraine and Russia's significant anti-air defenses mean that, almost a year into the war, neither country has gained air superiority.
    — Joel Mathis, The Week, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Europe must also speed up and extend the delivery of F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine, which would enable the country to establish air superiority.
    — Norbert Röttgen, Foreign Affairs, 22 Dec. 2023
  • This is widely credited with ending Soviet air superiority and forcing helicopters to fly with extreme caution and at higher altitudes.
    — David Szondy february 08, New Atlas, 8 Feb. 2026
  • Ukraine also lacks both air superiority and the 3-to-1 offensive to defensive troop ratio that Western militaries typically want for this kind of push.
    — Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 27 June 2023
  • Well, respectfully, Israel has air superiority over Iran.
    — CBS News, 22 Feb. 2026
  • Consequently, doing so may only be justified in more permissive airspace or where the air force has already established air superiority or even dominance, such as the Gaza Strip.
    — Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
  • Israel apparently achieved this air superiority solely with the support of its KC-707s.
    — Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
  • With the glide bombs, first deployed last year, Moscow has found an inelegant but effective solution to Ukraine’s denial of Russian air superiority since the early days of the war.
    — Serhii Korolchuk, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2024
  • The company released a whitepaper arguing that advanced propellants could play a major role in sustaining American air superiority.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 6 May 2026
  • However, the aircraft will not come equipped with Meteor beyond-visual-range air-to-air missiles, reducing their overall utility as air superiority fighters for Baghdad.
    — Paul Iddon, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
  • Long ambulance journeys are too risky for people in a critical condition, and flying a helicopter is too dangerous given Russia’s air superiority over Ukrainian skies.
    — Alex Platt, CNN, 12 Sep. 2024

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