How to Use air-to-air in a Sentence

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• These air-to-air heat pumps are the most common type.
  — Sara Kiley Watson, Popular Science, 2 Oct. 2025
• Alternatively, the drones could be armed with their own air-to-air missiles.
  — Sébastien Roblin, CNN, 17 Mar. 2023
• Israel notched the first-ever air-to-air kill by a F-35 fighter jet.
  — Michael M. Rosen, The Washington Examiner, 13 Mar. 2026
• One of the fighter jets shot down the Turkish drone with an air-to-air missile, the officials said.
  — Courtney Kube, NBC News, 5 Oct. 2023
• So far, the incidents have not involved actual air-to-air combat.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 4 May 2023
• This tracks a specific threat in the air and is used to target an aircraft before launching an air-to-air missile.
  — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 7 Dec. 2025
• But, by far, her most potent weapons are her stockpile of anti-ship, air-to-air, cruise missiles, and torpedoes.
  — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 22 Mar. 2026
• And for the first time, a Predator fired a Stinger air-to-air missile in action, at an Iraqi fighter.
  — David Schneider, IEEE Spectrum, 22 Jan. 2011
• This also forces any incoming Russian air-to-air missiles into a rear-aspect chase.
  — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 25 May 2026
• Some of these air-to-air missiles (AIM-120) cost $1 million each.
  — Rebecca Schneid, Time, 12 May 2026
• Combat jets can also heft a wide variety of ordnance, including air-to-air, air-to-ground, and anti-ship missiles as well as bombs.
  — Michael Peck, Popular Mechanics, 6 Apr. 2023
• Its goal is to extend the range and effectiveness of both air-to-air missiles and the current class of fighter jets while new aircraft are introduced.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 1 Jan. 2024
• Future co-production projects may also include medium-range air-to-air missiles, officials said.
  — Michelle Ye Hee Lee, Washington Post, 27 July 2024
• But Russia is unlikely to interfere, since direct, air-to-air combat would not work to its advantage.
  — Andriy Zagorodnyuk, Foreign Affairs, 23 Sep. 2025
• Reversible air-to-air heat pumps, which are gaining popularity, are an even more efficient option and can both heat homes in winter and cool them in summer.
  — Beth Gardiner, The Atlantic, 26 June 2026
• So our near-term focus will be on ensuring a uniformly strong connection throughout the route, for both air-to-ground and air-to-air communications.
  — Kamesh Namuduri, IEEE Spectrum, 8 July 2023
• These aircraft are designed for air-to-air and air-to-ground combat, as well as intelligence gathering and electronic warfare missions.
  — Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 June 2025
• This transforms a basic unguided rocket into a precision weapon capable of both air-to-surface and air-to-air engagements.
  — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 9 Apr. 2026
• Either or both demonstrators could become multi-role fighters with serious long-range air-to-air capability.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024
• This is critical because air-to-air missiles lose effectiveness dramatically if the target turns away.
  — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 25 May 2026
• China is also building many hundreds of advanced antiship and long-range surface-to-air and air-to-air missiles, and tens of advanced destroyers and cruisers per year.
  — Justin Bronk, Foreign Affairs, 15 Dec. 2025
• It was also known to have a powerful Smerch-A3, and carry up to four radar-homing R-40 air-to-air missiles.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 23 Feb. 2023
• World-first beyond-visual-range air-to-air kill by a drone Baykar says that the majority of drone projects in the world focus on air-to-land strike missions, and air-to-air kills are quite rare.
  — Abhishek Bhardwaj, Interesting Engineering, 1 Dec. 2025
• According to prosecutors, the Cuban military did not issue warnings before firing air-to-air missiles at the planes.
  — Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 20 May 2026
• They are also equipped with air-to-air refueling capabilities for contingencies, though they have never been used with a president on board.
  — Jonathan J. Cooper, Fortune, 2 May 2026
• Radar-lock at close range This theoretically means that the Chinese fighter could have launched air-to-air missiles towards it, but clearly didn’t.
  — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 14 Feb. 2026
• At the same time, a red carpet was laid out, flanked by F-22 Raptors—renowned for stealth and air-to-air combat—already based at Elmendorf.
  — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2025
• So, the pilots need to be proficient at air-to-air refueling, a difficult task with a plane the size of a commercial jetliner like the E-3.
  — Frederik Pleitgen, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2025
• In a few minutes, a Chinese fighter jet armed with air-to-air missiles intercepts the US plane, nestling in just 500 feet off its port side.
  — Ivan Watson, CNN, 24 Feb. 2023
• The aircraft is produced by Chengdu Aircraft Corporation and equipped with modern radar and air-to-air missile systems.
  — Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 May 2025