Sentence examples for were reconnaissance from inspiring English sources

He had earlier posted a newspaper article about Russian casualties on the border with Ukraine, remarking that they were reconnaissance soldiers from his 9th motor-rifle brigade, based in Nizhny Novgorod.

Of the 140 built, plus three prototypes, 30 were reconnaissance aircraft.

At least 90 were fighters, 12 were bombers and 12 were reconnaissance aircraft.

Out of the 30 Claret operations conducted by 3 RAR, 12 were reconnaissance patrols, while the remainder were ambushes or fighting patrols, four of which resulted in contact with Indonesian forces.

These are reconnaissance flights, unarmed planes".

Bunkers, trenches, trails that were not marked on maps, caches of enemy equipment — these, too, were to be reconnaissance objectives.

The ODI series against India was reconnaissance: nothing is set in stone yet and will not be until the tri-series in Australia in the new year.

The Ministry of Defence insists that it does not use armed UAVs against terrorist suspects outside Afghanistan, and that the vast majority of UK drone flights are reconnaissance missions.

They flew together in a pair of Mk IX Spitfires on a honeymoon trip to Brussels and back, although officially, the purpose was reconnaissance.

It is very small – not more than 10 – and their mission is reconnaissance as well as training and organising the resistance".

The emphasis in this project is reconnaissance and intelligence gathering.