bombing run
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[edit]Noun
[edit]bombing run (plural bombing runs)
- (military) The route of a bomber as it approaches its target; a sortie of a bomber
- 2019 May 16, Erik Adams, “A potent satire has its wings clipped in Catch-22”, in The A.V. Club[1], archived from the original on 1 September 2019:
- There’s palpable peril in the squadron’s ever-mounting bombing runs, and Cathcart’s moving target of a mission quota makes a clever parallel to contemporary America’s Forever War, but the flight sequences wind up acquiring a deadening repetitiousness