sorties
Examples
1500 men from Haganah's Givati brigade and Palmach 's Harel brigade conducted sorties to free up the route to the city between 5 and 20 April.
3rd, 4th and 5th patrols Her next three sorties met with mixed fortune; her third patrol saw no success, despite ranging far and wide over the north Atlantic.
Against this on 6 June the Luftwaffe flew some 300 sorties.
After 10 hours of fighting, the decimated Iranians were driven back to their original positions again as the Iraqis launched 650 helicopter and 300 aircraft sorties.
After flying 20,000 individual sorties, the Luftwaffe s original strength of 1,600 serviceable aircraft had fallen to 950. The Kampfwaffe (bomber force) had been hardest hit, having only 232 out of a force of 480 left.
Although the bombers accounted 50 sorties out of a total of 34,000 NATO sorties, they dropped 11 percent of all bombs. citation The B-2 was the first aircraft to deploy GPS satellite-guided JDAM "smart bombs" in combat use in Kosovo.