the air campaigns control of air in a localised area by executing SEAD, airfield attacks and offensive sweeps to permit a friendly break out of armour at the desired time. ACHIEVING CONDITIONS FOR CONTROL OF AIR The degrees of control over air are intangible. While air supremacy, can be easily discerned, it is not so in the case of air superiority and favourable air situation. In the case of the latter, the achievement of the said condition is known only after it is achieved and exploited. These realities imply that in the campaigns carried out to achieve the conditions for control of air, effort must be made to achieve it with a higher degree of assurance. A pair of MiG-29s on an air defence mission 41