The air battlefield situation provides a general description of the actions and states of all participants, while target combat intention recognition serves as a critical foundation for air battlefield posture assessment. To address the challenge of acquiring a large amount of labeled air target battlefield data amidst intense confrontation and rapidly evolving scenarios, a semi-supervised air targets combat intention recognition model is proposed based on metric learning. The model offers a method for uncovering potential patterns from unlabeled samples, thus reducing the reliance on extensive labeled data. In this model, the target time-series data encoder reduces the dimensionality of target data and produces an embedded representation. Based on this, loss values are calculated by measuring the similarity between labeled target sequences and intention types, as well as between labeled and unlabeled target sequences. The experimental results demonstrate that the model achieves combat intention recognition accuracy rates of 86%, 89%, and 91% with labeled sample rates of 30%, 40%, and 50%, respectively.