Air raid
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Air raid refers to an attack by aircraft. See strategic bombing
or the smaller-scale airstrike
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Air raid may also refer to:
Strategic bombing
Strategic bombing is a military strategy used in a total war with the goal of defeating an enemy nation-state by destroying its economic ability and public will to wage war rather than destroying its land or naval forces...
or the smaller-scale airstrike
Airstrike
An air strike is an attack on a specific objective by military aircraft during an offensive mission. Air strikes are commonly delivered from aircraft such as fighters, bombers, ground attack aircraft, attack helicopters, and others...
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Air raid may also refer to:
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, by the improvisational collective Air - "Air Raid", a 1977 John VarleyJohn Varley (author)John Herbert Varley is an American science fiction author.-Biography:Varley grew up in Fort Worth, Texas, moved to Port Arthur in 1957, and graduated from Nederland High School. He went to Michigan State University on a National Merit Scholarship because, of the schools that he could afford, it...
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, the name of three characters in the Transformers universes - Air Raid, a pass-oriented form of the spread offense in American football