Sentence examples for providing reconnaissance from inspiring English sources

During World War II the U.S. Air Force photographed vast areas of the world, providing reconnaissance maps that were used as bases for aeronautical charts.

"The real challenge the Air Force faces within the Pentagon in providing reconnaissance is that there is a revolution of rising expectations," said Loren B. Thompson, a military affairs specialist with the Lexington Institute, a policy research organization.

Air forces assisted armoured formations during World War II by providing reconnaissance, interdiction, and close support, as well as putting down airborne troops in front of advancing spearheads when the occasion demanded.

That "tilt" included providing reconnaissance information helping Iraq deploy its chemical weapons attacks against Iran.

The engineering studies have provided reconnaissance appraisal of all the tributary basins and a more detailed examination of selected projects.

But they are pushing Washington to move more quickly through the interagency process to provide reconnaissance drones, air transport planes and refueling planes.

These provide reconnaissance information, communications facilities and also the global-positioning system that allows a squaddie to locate himself on the earth's surface to within a few metres.

Its main stated goals are to provide reconnaissance on the number militants, their weapons and movements in the so-called Islamic State, with operations beginning in the coming months.

When his two-man team provided reconnaissance for the rescue of American hostages from Somali pirates aboard the Maersk Alabama, a container ship, in 2009, they worked around the clock for five days straight.

The primary purpose of the Surveyor program was to test the feasibility of soft, or controlled, landings on the moon and, in the words of The Times, provide "reconnaissance for a manned landing".

At the Pentagon earlier Thursday, Vice Adm. William E. Gortney, the director of the joint staff, said that American fighter jets would continue bombing Libya and that American surveillance planes would provide reconnaissance even after NATO, in partnership with other coalition members, assumes leadership of the coalition.