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Example sentences for: fighters

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The Langley fighters were placed on battle stations at 9:09.
At 9:10, the senior director on the NEADS floor told the weapons director,"I want those fighters closer in."
Because the Otis fighters had expended a great deal of fuel in flying first to military airspace and then to New York, the battle commanders were concerned about refueling.
In an op-ed, former WP military reporter George C. Wilson wonders why, if the military now expects most of its missions to be related to peace-keeping and counter-terrorism, President Clinton and Secretary of Defense William Cohen continue to allow the Army to spend millions on tanks, the Navy to keep buying $2 billion submarines, the Air Force to keep buying stealthy $160 million fighters, and the Marines to buy $40-$60 million vertical take-off-and-landing troop carriers instead of much cheaper helicopters.
It also predicted he would put heavy pressure on Chilean President Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle to purchase American F-16 or F-18 fighters, rather than European planes, for its air force.