combat

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The loss of the warplanes comes after 13,000 combat flights and five weeks of airstrikes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

“There have been thousands of targets hit with thousands of sorties penetrating contested airspace. It’s been an entire month and this is the first time we’ve had a combat loss? That’s incredible.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

Retired US brigadier general Houston Cantwell, who has 400 hours of combat flight experience, said a pilot's training would likely kick in before he or she parachutes to the ground.

From Barron's • Apr. 4, 2026

Cantwell logged 400 hours of combat flight experience, including missions over Iraq and Afghanistan, and he trained at length for hard parachute landings.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

On a foggy night in England in February 1941, twenty-two British bomber aircraft crashed after returning from a combat mission.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein