air force

See also airforce, and Air Force

English

Wikipedia

Noun

air force (plural air forces)

1. A branch of the military mainly devoted to air warfare, as opposed to (land) army and navy
2. a unit in the U.S. Air Force larger than a division but smaller than a command

Derived terms

• army air force
• naval air force

Translations

branch of the military devoted to air warfare

Arabic: سلاح الطيران (ar) (sillaH al-Tayaraan) m. Armenian: ռազմաօդային ուժեր (hy) (ṙazmaōdayin užer), ՌՕՈՒ (hy) (ṘŌU) Chinese: Mandarin: 空軍 (cmn), 空军 (cmn) (kōngjūn) Min Nan: 空軍, 空军 (khong-kun) Croatian: ratno zrakoplovstvo (hr) n., vojno zrakoplovstvo (hr) n. Danish: flyvevåben n., luftvåben n., luftstyrke c. Dutch: luchtmacht (nl) Esperanto: aerarmeo (eo), flugarmeo (eo) Estonian: lennuvägi Finnish: ilmavoimat (fi) French: armée de l'air f., force aérienne f. German: Luftwaffe (de) f., Luftstreitkräfte (de) pl.

Hungarian: légierő (hu) Japanese: 空軍 (ja) (くうぐん, kūgun) Korean: 공군 (ko) (gonggun) (空軍 (ko)) Macedonian: воздухопловство (mk) (vozduhoplóvstvo) n. Persian: نیروی هوائی (fa) (niruye havāyi) Portuguese: força aérea (pt) Russian: военно-воздушные силы (ru) (vojénno-vozdúšnyje síly) f. pl., ВВС (ru) (ve-ve-éf) m. Spanish: fuerza aérea (es) f. Swedish: flygvapen Turkish: hava kuvetleri (tr) pl. Vietnamese: không quân (vi) (空軍 (vi))

unit in the U.S. Air Force

Chinese: Mandarin: trad. 美國空軍, simpl. 美国空军 (pinyin: Mĕiguó Kōngjūn)

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Esperanto: aerarmeo Georgian: სამხედრო-საჰაერო ძალები (samχedro-sahaero dzalebi) Hebrew: חיל אוויר (kheil avir) Norwegian: flyvåpen

Romanian: forță aeriană f. Slovene: vojno letalstvo n. Vietnamese: không quân