Sentence examples for reconnaissance platform from inspiring English sources

Salyut 5, occupied by two crews in 1976 and 1977, was another reconnaissance platform.

Armed drones are both inevitable, since they allow the fusing of a reconnaissance platform with a weapons system, and, in many respects, highly desirable.

It was derived from the Almaz reconnaissance platform designed in the 1960s by Soviet aerospace engineer Vladimir Chelomey and adapted for use with the Soyuz manned spacecraft originally developed by his rival Sergey Korolyov for the Soviet Moon-landing program.

Moreover, because some of the systems needed for a military reconnaissance platform were not yet available, it was decided to initiate the program with a station equipped as a scientific laboratory.

The view that the X-37B is a reconnaissance platform is strengthened by observations from amateur satellite watchers, who track the vehicles' orbits, and noticed that it has similar orbits to spy satellites and scientific remote sensing craft.

The project would have seen Hartsfield fly to space onboard a Gemini spacecraft to work on a reconnaissance platform, had it not been canceled in 1969.

"Unmanned air reconnaissance platforms are an area of growing importance to the military," he said.

Portable mobile robots, in the size class of 20 kg or less, could be extremely valuable as autonomous reconnaissance platforms in urban hostage situations and disaster relief.

Hovering UAVs could also serve as sentries, watching over a country's coastline for smugglers and terrorists, and as military reconnaissance platforms.

"But nowhere were the gaps more obvious than in critical enabling capabilities — refueling tankers, the provision of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance platforms such as Global Hawk and Predator drones".

Eventually, Breedlove got some of the high-tech surveillance and reconnaissance platforms he'd asked for, but they merely amplified what senior military planners were beginning to realize: today's Russian military is far more advanced than previously understood.