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A United States Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator after an airstrike on Saint-Malo, France in 1944. An airstrike, air strike, or air raid [1] is an offensive operation carried out by aircraft. Air strikes are delivered from aircraft such as blimps, balloons, fighter aircraft, attack aircraft, bombers, attack helicopters, and drones.
Compounding the effects of the air attacks, Japan's rice crop of 1945 failed. The resulting shortage of rice caused widespread malnutrition, and mass starvation would have occurred had the war continued. [300] In financial terms, the Allied air campaign and attacks on merchant ships destroyed between one third and a quarter of Japan's wealth. [301]
The attacks targeted a safe house and training area used by militias in Mayadin and Abu Kamal [79] and resulted in the killing of 8 militiamen. [ 80 ] On 21 November, a USAF AC-130 gunship retaliated against a Kata'ib Hezbollah vehicle near Abu Gharib , in response to the Islamic Resistance In Iraq's 20 November missile attack on US forces at ...
Air defences destroyed 18 of 29 inbound missiles and 25 of 28 attack drones, the air force said. There were almost no details about what had been damaged, but the targeting of critical ...
It was the first American air operation to strike the Japanese archipelago. Although the raid caused comparatively minor damage, it demonstrated that the Japanese mainland was vulnerable to American air attacks. It served as an initial retaliation for the December 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor, and provided an important boost to American morale.
The attack targeted cities across Ukraine, including Dnipro, Kharkiv, Konotop, Kyiv, Lviv, Odesa, and Zaporizhzhia, in what was possibly the largest aerial attack of the Russian invasion thus far. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] Ukrainian Air Force spokesperson Yurii Ihnat said that [ 11 ] "we have never seen so many targets on our monitors at once."
Strategic bombing is a systematically organized and executed attack from the air which can utilize strategic bombers, long- or medium-range missiles, or nuclear-armed fighter-bomber aircraft to attack targets deemed vital to the enemy's war-making capability.
The attack was described as "the worst loss of U.S. airpower in a single incident since the Vietnam War"; [18] the attack caused 200 million USD in damages. [19] Together, the six destroyed and two damaged Harriers constituted six percent of the USMC's inventory. Normal attrition of the USMC's Harrier jets is around two airframes a year. [20]