What is "sorties"

Usage examples of "sorties".

During the next twenty-four hours, the two Iraqi heavy divisions were hit by more than a thousand attack sorties, many by A-10 attack aircraft and Apache and Cobra helicopters, all of which employed the most lethal precision-guided munitions of all: Maverick, Hellfire, and TOW antitank missiles.

Having more accurate weapons does mean that it requires fewer sorties to destroy any given target, but there are a lot of important caveats to this.

Altogether, the United States and Britain flew 650 aircraft sorties and fired 415 cruise missiles at Iraq.

We could find ourselves launching hundreds of sorties every three to four months to deal with new Iraqi construction.

Initially, the United States could mount only about twenty-five combat sorties per day against Afghan targets, although that climbed to about ninety sorties per day within a week or two.

By itself this is a distressing tally, given that NATO flew roughly five thousand attack sorties against the Serbian forces.

More than 1,200 NATO aircraft had flown 38,000 sorties, including more than 5,000 strike sorties against Serbian military forces in Kosovo, but had achieved very little.

The coalition flew more than a thousand sorties against several of these divisions, employing large numbers of PGMs and B-52 strikes against them, yet they did not break.

The coalition flew 118,000 sorties against Iraq, including 21,000 strike sorties against the Iraqi Army in the Kuwaiti Theater.

During Operation Desert Storm, American aircraft flew 200,000 sorties across Egypt to the Gulf.

After a few tentative sorties were driven back, Lian had judged the hidden archers too minor a danger to justify a concerted advance before the main body of troops could cross.

An end to clandestine sorties to the bookshop and table-tappings at my expense.

Two sorties in that direction had foundered miserably and rendered him helpless, despairing.

Once I knew that, I expanded my nightly sorties until I thoroughly familiarized myself with Brooklyn, which I had not known as a young man when I lived in New York.