Air force and Defense force

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Air force noun - The airborne branch of a country's armed forces.

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Defense force and air force are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Defense force" instead a noun phrase "Air force".

Defense force noun - An organization of defenders that provides resistance against attack.

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Air force and defense force are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Air force" instead a noun phrase "Defense force".

The ''Wehrmacht'' was the more general, overarching organization (the equivalent in English would be saying "the military"-literally it means the "defense force") composed of the Army (Heer), Navy (Kriegsmarine), and Air Force (Luftwaffe).

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Bilingual Bonus / Genius Bonus: For anyone who actually understands air force parlance, the series air combat scenes were developed with the help of the Japanese Air Self Defense Force, so a lot of the radio chatter is what you'd actually hear in an air combat situation.

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