THE AIR FORCES (AF)

1.s	Try to answer these questions before listening to the text

 

1. What do you understand by the term “air forces”?

2. What branches of the air forces do you know?

3. What types of aircrafts do you know?

4. What are the tasks of the air forces?

 

2.

In this exercise we’ll concentrate on the words and word combinations to be sure you know what they mean

Air Forces - the branch of a nation's armed services primarily responsible for air warfare

superiority – the state or quality of being better, more skillful, more powerful, greater, etc. than others (to have naval/air superiority – more ships/planes than the enemy);

maneuver – a movement to place ships or aircraft in a position of advantage over the enemy;

infrastructure – a term generally applicable to all fixed and permanent installations, fabrications, or facilities for the support and control of military forces;

fighter – a combat aircraft designed to destroy enemy aircraft in flight. It is also used to engage ground targets and for aerial reconnaissance. It is an all-weather supersonic jet aircraft designed to carry missiles, guns and bombs and equipped with electronic systems;

bomber – a combat aircraft designed to destroy targets on land or at sea with missiles or bombs, and to lay mines from the air;

aircraft missile system – a type of aircraft armament which uses missiles to engage ground, air and sea targets;

Air Defence Forces – an Armed Service of the Armed Forces whose role is to protect national administrative, economic and industrial centers and key military installations from air attacks;

air cover – one of the main missions of fighter aviation. Its purposes are to prevent air attacks on friendly land and naval forces and on rear area installations, to prevent enemy air reconnaissance, and also to protect other friendly air units;

interceptor – an air defence aircraft designed to combat enemy air strikes. It is equipped with an on-board multi-purpose radar sight with long-range target detection, guided missiles of short, medium and long range, and guns;

cruise missile - an air-breathing low-flying subsonic missile that is continuously powered and guided throughout its flight and carries a warhead.

3.

Read the text and translate into Ukrainian