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• n  an aircraft designed and used for combat

• And on Monday, seven boys were killed when a US warplane bombed a religious seminary in Paktika, eastern Afghanistan.
• The warplane, Pentagon sources said, didn't miss what it was aiming at.
• Israel's embattled Lavi warplane points up a global dilemma .

• military plane

News & Articles

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• Syria’s pro-Assad forces accused of targeting mosques in civil war
  Maarat Hurmah is a little-known town close to a front in Syrias civil war that reporters rarely visit, but Syrian warplanes pounded it for five days last October, according to… Click to Continue »
  June 27, 2013 - McClatchy Washington Bureau

Quotes

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• Elias Murr in Naharnet
  There are clear instructions from the army command to shoot at any Israeli warplane that violates the Lebanese airspace,Murr told reporters Thursday.
• James T Smith in New York Times
  It'sa symbol of pride,Mr. Smith said. "Its return would be tremendous for the men and women who actually built the historical World War II warplane to be able to show it off to their grandchildren."
• Vladimir Putin in Bloomberg
  The Navy will start construction of a new class of nuclear submarine next year, strategic bombers are being modernized and "a new generation warplane" will be ready by 2015, Putin said.