combat area
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More closely resembling a commercial plane, these aircraft use radar to provide an aerial overview of a combat area.
From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2025
The ship had not been destined for ports in a combat area, the Administration pointed out.
From The New Yorker ● May 28, 2016
Tough, square-jawed Eddie Rickenbacker, ace of American flying aces in World War I, was on a special mission from Hawaii to a Pacific combat area for the Secretary of War.
From Time Magazine Archive
Though Soviet aircraft have avoided the direct combat area over Suez, the Israelis branded the Russian role as "alarming."
From Time Magazine Archive
It had seen the Horus vanish from one place and appear at another in the same combat area, launch missiles and vanish again before it could even be ranged.
From Talents, Incorporated by Murray Leinster
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