Sentence examples for reconnaissance role from inspiring English sources

Senior military spokesman Major General Nick Pope said the Tornado GR4s –to be based at Gioia del Colle in Italy – would be deployed primarily in a reconnaissance role.

The drones I fly don't carry weapons, they have a reconnaissance role.

Another argument is that carrier aircraft play a key "intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance" role, conveying vital information to ground units hunting insurgents.

The jets would be used in a reconnaissance role to help transport planes deliver aid supplies and not for air strikes, a source told BBC defence correspondent Jonathan Beale.

A MC-12W Liberty turbo-propeller aircraft was used in an Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance role.

* No. 41 Squadron formed at RAF Coltishall in 1976 in the reconnaissance role.

Originally designed to meet the demands of the Cold War, hunting out nuclear missile submarines as well as ships, they have since been kitted out to perform reconnaissance roles.

The single-seat Hunter entered service as a maneuverable fighter aircraft, and later operated in fighter-bomber and reconnaissance roles in numerous conflicts.

During the Vietnam War the F-4 was used extensively; it served as the principal air superiority fighter for both the Navy and Air Force, and became important in the ground-attack and aerial reconnaissance roles late in the war.

These independent companies were later redesignated as commando squadrons, of which twelve were eventually raised, including the 1st, which had been destroyed early in the war; as the war progressed they were used more in the flank protection and reconnaissance roles than for unconventional warfare.

As well as undertaking offensive operations, the Bristol Fighters served in the photo-reconnaissance role.