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Five years ago, Russia said one of its warships fired warning shots and a warplane dropped bombs in the Black Sea to force the British destroyer HMS Defender out of an area near Crimea that Moscow claimed as its territorial waters.—ABC News,
16 June 2026 Yet by early Monday, dozens of Israeli warplanes were striking western and central Iran.—
Nabih Bulos,
Los Angeles Times,
8 June 2026 Because modern warplanes put a premium on stealth, internal weapon bays are preferred to reduce radar signatures, but opening the bays for launching creates a high-speed aerodynamic cavity.—
David Szondy
june 04,
New Atlas,
4 June 2026 That same month, Pakistan signed a defense pact with Saudi Arabia, committing thousands of Pakistani troops and warplanes to defend the kingdom.—
Sudarsan Raghavan,
New Yorker,
3 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for warplane