sorties's Usage Examples:

one mission involving six aircraft would tally six sorties.

The sortie rate is the number of sorties that a given unit can support in a given time.

crewmembers and air transport pilots received it for five sorties, fighter pilots received it for ten sorties, and individual pilots or air crewmen received one.

first to fly 255 sorties in one day, first to fly 50,000 sorties in jet warfare, first to fly 60,000 sorties, and first to fly 291 sorties in a single day.

from 44 and two in 48 sorties in January 1941, to 204 and 74 in May (643 sorties).

But even in May, 67 per cent of the sorties were visual cat's-eye missions.

firebombed with 1,000 tons of high explosives and incendiaries in 1,600 sorties on 23 August.

2 375 sorties; 14 sorties per Vulcan raid, 12 sorties per extended Nimrod patrol, 6 sorties per Hercules long-range drop, 6 sorties per Harrier.

total, 830 crew members from 13 NATO nations executed 360 operational sorties, totaling nearly 4300 hours.

the end of the operation, aircraft from 21 countries had flown 12,886 sorties into Sarajevo, delivering 159,622 tons of food, medicine, and supplies.

During the operation, the squadron completed 150 combat sorties and over 550 combat flight hours with a 98% sortie completion rate and.

43 (F) Squadron was flying sorties in the Beihan region as a show of force against the Mutawakkilite Kingdom.

103,148 tactical air sorties had been flown over Laos.

These missions were supplemented by 1,718 B-52 Stratofortress sorties under Operation Arc Light.

It also flew several sorties with 6 TAC.

Crimean Offensive – 6,140 sorties Belarus Offensive – 400 sorties Poland Offensive – 5,421 sorties German Offensive – 2,000 sorties In total the regiment.

days, the Eighth Air Force bombers based in England flew more than 3,000 sorties and the Fifteenth Air Force based in Italy more than 500.

information sorties over the enemy withdrawal from Noyers and Epenay and provided standing patrols of the 53 and 59 Division fronts.

Weyland's command flew 2011 reconnaissance sorties, or slightly more than 9 percent of the 22,233 total sorties flown.

Nearly 20,000 sorties were flown between 1961 and 1971.

anti-infiltration sorties against the trail system.

By the end of 1967 and the absorption of Steel Tiger operations into Commando Hunt, 103,148 tactical air sorties had.

Solenzara Air Base on Corsica from which further combat sorties were launched.

Eleven sorties were carried out by French aircraft over Libya.

with photo reconnaissance sorties along the French coast (code named Popular) and Rhubarb sorties.

It flew a variety of sorties for Army support and patrols.

Synonyms:

sally; action; military action;

Antonyms:

source; sink; activation;