attack aircraft

Questions about attack aircraft

What does attack aircraft mean?

attack aircraft means "a high-speed military or naval airplane designed to destroy enemy aircraft in the air".

What is another word for attack aircraft?

Close synonyms include fighter, fighter aircraft. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is attack aircraft a common word?

attack aircraft is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.