: launched from one airplane in flight at another
air-to-air missiles
also : involving aircraft in flight
air-to-air combat

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These make the onslaught less dangerous than the headline figure alone indicates, Interceptors Assemble But, absent Western aid, Ukraine’s best chance for stemming the attacks will be using its own drone industry which is now producing air-to-air interceptors. David Hambling, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024 In French service, the speedy jets strictly fly air-to-air sorties with their pulse-Doppler RDY radars and MICA missiles. David Axe, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024 India produces the indigenous beyond visual range Astra air-to-air missile, which is compatible with the Su-30, and may well sell them to Armenia. Paul Iddon, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2024 Russian air-to-air drone kills are much less common. David Axe, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for air-to-air 

Word History

First Known Use

1939, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of air-to-air was in 1939

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“Air-to-air.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/air-to-air. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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