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A-4

Noun

Meaning

(military) Skyhawk single engine attack aircraft.

(military) Air material and supply officer.

(military) Material and supply section of an Air Force staff.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

Argentina also operated two KC-130 tankers during the war, and these refueled both the Douglas A-4 Skyhawks and Navy Dassault-Breguet Super Étendards ; some C-130s were modified to operate as bombers with bomb-racks under their wings. Source: Internet

Because the Navy already had the Douglas A-4 Skyhawk for ground attack and F-8 Crusader for dogfighting, the project now had to fulfill the need for an all-weather fleet defense interceptor. Source: Internet

Egyptian troops during the 1969-1970 War of Attrition scored 36 hits out of 99 launches, including possibly the first MANPADS intercept ever of an Israeli A-4 Skyhawk. Source: Internet

Following von Braun's July 7, 1943 presentation of a color movie showing an A-4 taking off, Hitler was so enthusiastic that he personally made von Braun a professor shortly thereafter. Source: Internet

Suhler 2009, p. 100. After the advisory panel provisionally selected Convair's FISH design over the A-3 on the basis of RCS, Lockheed adopted chines for its A-4 through A-6 designs. Source: Internet

The A-4 Skyhawk Light Attack Bomber provided the U.S. Navy and Marines and America’s allies with unusual flexibility and maneuverability, built to be only half the weight of its contemporaries. Source: Internet

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