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reconnaissance
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The act of scouting or exploring (especially military or medical) to gain information.
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For months the US airforce and RAF planes have been heavily involved in air strikes and reconnaissance missions across Iraq that are credited with helping slow the advance of Isis fighters and have now paved the way for ground operations.
After a £100m criminal investigation, the biggest police inquiry in modern times, the trio were cleared by a jury at Kingston crown court of helping to plan the attacks by carrying out a reconnaissance mission with two of the bombers.
In the US he had equally deadly plans for destruction and he filmed major financial buildings, including the World Trade Centre, during reconnaissance missions before the 9/11 attacks.
Surveillance Footage from his reconnaissance in New York was discovered concealed within a video of Bruce Willis' movie Die Hard with a Vengeance which is about terrorist attacks on New York.
He also undertook reconnaissance missions in the UK and US in 2000 and 2001, during which he filmed buildings including the International Monetary Fund and World Bank headquarters in Washington DC, the stock exchange and Citigroup in New York and the Prudential insurance premises in Newark, New Jersey.
He said a skirmish broke out between his forces and an enemy special forces reconnaissance unit that included 14 Russian servicemen on Saturday afternoon.
Philip Hammond, Britain's foreign secretary, said the UK would play a leading role in the coalition, suggesting military efforts beyond its current involvement in arming the Kurds and flying reconnaissance missions.
No specific UK targets were identified for the gas limos project but reconnaissance material on several central London hotels, including the Savoy, and three of the capital's biggest mainline railway stations - Paddington, Waterloo and King's Cross - indicated they were being considered.
The sale of military drones worldwide is also rising, with increasing numbers of countries acquiring reconnaissance aircraft and showing an interest in weaponised models, Sipri said.
The summer sun was at its zenith in a cloudless sky when Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Saint-Exupéryforce reconnaissance plane tumbled into the Mediterranean in July 1944, killing the author of The Little Prince, and creating a necessary hero in a country humbled by defeat and collaboration.
Barot carried out his US reconnaissance before 9/11.
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