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 (nan), 空军 (nan) (khong-kun)

• Czech: letectvo (cs) n, vzdušné síly (cs) pl
• 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))
• Limburgish: lóchhèèr (li)
• Macedonian: воздухопловство (mk) (vozduhoplóvstvo) n
• Maori: tauā rangi (mi)
• 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
• Serbo-Croatian: ratno zrakoplovstvo (sh) n, vojno zrakoplovstvo (sh) n
• 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