bombing run

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English

Noun

bombing run (plural bombing runs)

  1. (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, 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