fighter-interceptor

[ fahy-ter-in-ter-sep-ter ]

noun

, Military.

1. a fighter plane used for the defense of a region against air attack, especially by attacking bombers.

Example Sentences

The jet also saw duty with the 96th, 27th and 101st Fighter-Interceptor squadrons and the 606th Consolidated Maintenance Squadron.

From Washington Times

After basic training and flight school, Bush spent most of his time in the service with the 111th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron at Ellington Field, a "champagne" unit based southeast of Houston.

From Time Magazine Archive

Another involved a U.S. fighter-interceptor that flew over Soviet-held Big Diomede Island while chasing off a Soviet bomber near the Aleutian Islands.

From Time Magazine Archive

After more than a year of knee-and-gouge competition, Belgium had decided to buy the company's F-16 fighter-interceptor instead of the French Dassault Mirage F1-M53 as a replacement for aging U.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

As a full partner in the U.S. air-defense network, its men operate 43% of the Nike-Hercules missile sites around key cities and maintain 52% of the fighter-interceptor forces that are always on round-the-clock runway alert.

From Time Magazine Archive