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means An attack carried out by military aircraft dropping bombs or firing missiles on a target below.

from A straightforward 20th-century compound of 'air' and 'strike,' coined once powered flight made it possible to deliver an attack from the sky rather than across land or sea — the word entering common use alongside the growth of military aviation in the World War era, when bombers and fighter planes turned the sky itself into a front line.