Sentence examples for per sortie from inspiring English sources
"Today's aircraft carrier has about 10 times the lethality of an aircraft carrier of 20 years ago, due to the advent of precision munitions — in the old days, it was sorties per target, now it is targets per sortie," he said.
Ilyushin II-76 planes – the type most commonly used – come in at a very rough ballpark of $34,000£23,30000) per sortie.
Recent campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq have demonstrated that American carrier air power can conduct coordinated deep-strike missions well beyond coastal reaches, providing around the clock target coverage, consistently accurate target attack, and multiple successful target attacks per sortie.
In a recent Air Force Times article they said that larger tankers offer greater flexibility, can deliver more fuel per sortie and do not need to be kept closer to the battlefield than is "militarily prudent".
The Navy's performance over Afghanistan and Iraq further showed how far the nation's carrier force has advanced since the end of the cold war in providing around-the-clock target coverage, consistently accurate target attack, and-for the first time in its history-multiple successful target attacks per sortie.
Raising the average bomb load of an IAF sortie from 100 kg per sortie to 743 kg per sortie, the B-17s are credited with propelling the Israeli Air Force into the realm of modern aerial warfare.
And yet the 100,000 close-air-support sorties flown between 2011 and 2015 -- that's more than one sortie per Taliban fighter -- did not, alas, yield "some version of victory".
At one sortie per minute, those rats are dead in an afternoon.
They flew only an average of one sortie per day, including strategic defensive missions.
The average operational sortie rate of one per serviceable fighter was not spread evenly throughout the command, however.
Flying an estimated 2,000 sorties a day, Coalition aircraft rapidly crippled the Iraqi air defense systems and effectively destroyed the Iraqi Air Force, whose daily sortie rate plummeted from a prewar level of an estimated 200 per day to almost none by 17 January.
