Air raid refers to an attack by aircraft against ground targets. The term is generally used for strategic bombing attacks, while airstrike is used for smaller tactical attacks.

War

Attack

• The Bombing of Guernica, Spain, (April 26, 1937), an air raid on Spanish civilians, by the German Air Force during the Spanish Civil War
• The Royal Navy air raid on Taranto, Italy, in November 1940 – a night air raid by torpedo bombers against the Italian Navy's main battle fleet at anchor
• Attack on Pearl Harbor (December 7, 1941), an Imperial Japanese Navy air raid on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, the United States Fleet, and secondary targets on Oahu
• First air raid on Singapore (1941), a Japanese Navy bomber attack on the city
• Easter Sunday Raid (1942), an Imperial Japanese Navy air attack on Colombo, Ceylon, then supposedly defended by the British Army and the Royal Air Force.
• The Doolittle Raid – a surprise air raid against Japan in April 1942, flown by US Army bombers launched from an aircraft carrier
• Air raids on Australia, 1942–43, a list of Japanese Army air raids on Australia during World War II
• Air raids on Japan (1942–45), a list of American air attacks on Japan during World War II
• Air Raid on Bari (1943), a Nazi bomber attack on Allied shipping in the harbor of Bari, Italy
• Lookout Air Raid (1942), a small-scale Japanese incendiary attack on a forest in Oregon
• Raid on Taipei, also known as Taipei Air Raid (1945), a USAAF bomber attack targeting the Japanese occupation government and army, collaterally killing more than 3,000 Taiwanese civilians
• Ouadi Doum air raid (1986), a French air raid on a Libyan Air Force base
• Bombing of Libya by the U.S. in 1986; a series of air raids made in response to a Libyan terrorist attack in Germany

Defense

• Air Raid Precautions (1924), a UK organisation for the protection of citizens from bombing attacks
• Air-raid shelter, a structure for protection from bombing attacks
  • Clifford Road Air Raid Shelter, a World War II-era shelter in Ipswich, England, currently a museum
• Civil defense siren, also known as air raid siren; a signal warning of impending air raid
  • Chrysler air raid siren (1952), a six horn warning siren powered by a 180 horsepower (130 kW) V-8 engine

Fiction and popular culture

• Air Raid Wardens (1943), a Laurel and Hardy comedy film
• Air Raid (1977), a short story written by John Varley which later provided the basis for the 1989 film Millenium.
• Air Raid (video game) (1984), a rare game released for the Atari 2600
• Air Raid (Transformers) (1986, 1994, 2004), the name of three characters in the Transformers universes
• Icky-Poo Air Raid (1996), an album by the band Bis released in Thailand
• Rollin' (Air Raid Vehicle) (2000), a song by Limp Bizkit from their album Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water