Sentence examples for single sortie from inspiring English sources
'single sortie' is a correct and usable phrase in written English
You can use it to refer to an instance of a particular type of event or occurrence, such as a single military mission. For example, "The pilot made a single sortie over enemy territory during the night."
Eight died in a single sortie once when she was lead pilot, as hulking Messerschmitts attacked them in the dazzle of the searchlights.
These days a plane with "smart" bombs can blast several targets in a single sortie, day or night, in good weather or bad.
"Our greatest accomplishment was that we flew every single sortie the Air Force asked us to fly, despite the challenges we encountered," he said.
It will be stealthy, subsonic, have a range of around 6,000 miles (9,650km) and be able to carry a big enough payload to destroy many targets during a single sortie.
That means, in turn, that you can fit five times as many bombs on a single plane and hit five times as many targets in a single sortie, which sounds good except that now you need to get intelligence on five times as many targets.
That means, in turn, that you can fit five times as many bombs on a single plane and hit five times as many targets in a single sortie, which sounds good — except that now you need to get intelligence on five times as many targets.
The squadron had not flown a single training sortie before fighting began and had only two full crews ready for battle.
On each night this week, warplanes from the Enterprise have flown about 70 sorties, a sortie being a single flight by a single plane.
The Belfry, Sutton Coldfield, England Result: US 15 beat Europe 13 The 30th Ryder Cup yesterday went the way of 22 of its predecessors when the United States, with a stirring and successful last-day sortie, took the final singles 7½- 4½ and the match 15-13.
This research develops an agent based simulation model for application to the sortie generation process, focusing on a single fighter aircraft unit.
On 10 February 1945, after a bridge-busting sortie on the Drava river, a single ZNDH Dornier Do 17Z caught 1. Zagorska Brigada (1st Zagorje Brigade) marching in the open near Daruvar.
