air superiority
noun
: a larger/better air force than one's enemies
To win this war, we must achieve air superiority.
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So far, the IAF has achieved complete air superiority, allowing its jets to carry out deep strikes without meaningful resistance.
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Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 22 June 2025
Space superiority, like air superiority, broadly defines a military's ability to project military power in space in order to protect its satellites or other assets in orbit, or to use that power to deny an adversary the use of their own spacecraft.
—Brett Tingley, Space.com, 22 Apr. 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
Although the Mossad's intelligence and the IDF's rapid establishment of air superiority inside Iran proved to be nothing less than extraordinary, my wife and I lived on pins and needles for those first few days of the war.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 June 2025
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Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 22 June 2025
Space superiority, like air superiority, broadly defines a military's ability to project military power in space in order to protect its satellites or other assets in orbit, or to use that power to deny an adversary the use of their own spacecraft.
—Brett Tingley, Space.com, 22 Apr. 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
Although the Mossad's intelligence and the IDF's rapid establishment of air superiority inside Iran proved to be nothing less than extraordinary, my wife and I lived on pins and needles for those first few days of the war.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for air superiority
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“Air superiority.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/air%20superiority. Accessed 25 Jul. 2025.
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