air superiority
noun
: a larger/better air force than one's enemies
To win this war, we must achieve air superiority.
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While Katz did not use the term ‘air occupation,’ maintaining air superiority and preventing Iran from doing those things might inevitably require one.
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Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
Although the Mossad's intelligence and the IDF's rapid establishment of air superiority inside Iran proved to be nothing less than extraordinary, my wife and I lived on pins and needles for those first few days of the war.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 June 2025
In the days that followed, Israel expanded its operation over Iran, declaring air superiority and going after Tehran’s ballistic missile arsenal.
—Oren Liebermann, CNN Money, 26 June 2025
Israel's military first clinched air superiority by sweeping the area with F-35 fighter jets, according to Deptula.
—Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA Today, 19 June 2025
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Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
Although the Mossad's intelligence and the IDF's rapid establishment of air superiority inside Iran proved to be nothing less than extraordinary, my wife and I lived on pins and needles for those first few days of the war.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 June 2025
In the days that followed, Israel expanded its operation over Iran, declaring air superiority and going after Tehran’s ballistic missile arsenal.
—Oren Liebermann, CNN Money, 26 June 2025
Israel's military first clinched air superiority by sweeping the area with F-35 fighter jets, according to Deptula.
—Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA Today, 19 June 2025
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“Air superiority.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/air%20superiority. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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