Synonyms for air base
air base

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1. air base, air stationnoun

   a base for military aircraft

   Synonyms:
   air station

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1. Defense Secretary Ash Carter:

   I saw some of the A-10s that are flying bombing missions against ISIL (the Pentagon's term for ISIS) when I was at Incirlik Air Base in Turkey last December, and we need the additional payload capacity they can bring to the fight, we're pushing off the A-10's final retirement until 2022 so we can keep more aircraft that can drop smart bombs on ISIL.

2. Haffed Jumaa:

   The warplanes took off from Haftar-controlled Al-Watia air-base.

3. Bradley Bowman:

   The way that the handover of Bagram Air Base went down appears to have been very poorly coordinated and that reality and perception is not helpful to American interests. It's almost a microcosm of what we've seen more broadly, and that is poor planning.

4. Belarus Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei:

   Placing an air base will not reduce military and political tensions in the region. Conversely, the air base will lead to irritation toward both Minsk and Moscow, we think there is no need to have a discussion on placing a base in Belarus.

5. Andrew Peek:

   The Kurds have shown themselves more able than we were expecting to conduct offense. We’ve always known the Kurds could defend Kurdish territory particularly well, but the capture of [the air base] is a positive sign that they can move forward.