Sentences with phrase «us sorties»

He said bombers like the B - 52 — though strategically useful — «aren't really optimized for this mission set» in quick, one - off strike sorties.

Here are the figures for the 10 types of U.S. aircraft flying combat sorties: F - 15E Strike Eagle, 14,995 weapons released; A-10 Thunderbolt II, 13,856; B - 1 Lancer, 9,195; F / A -18 Super Hornets, 8,920; F - 16 Fighting Falcon, 7,679; B - 52 Stratofortress, 5,041; MQ - 1 Predator drone, 2,274; MQ - 9 Reaper, 2,188; AV - 8B, 1,650; and F - 22, 1,535.

The HST then served during Operation Southern Watch and flew 1,300 sorties during Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Its air wing conducted over 1,800 combat sorties that dropped over 1,085 guided munitions on Islamic State targets.

Harrier fighters from the Garibaldi carried out 30 sorties over the Balkans in 1999.

In Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom, the TR's aircraft flew 3,100 sorties and dropped 59,500 pounds of ordnance.

The fleet flew 1,350 sorties during that war.

Pompeo, who once suggested the answer to Tehran's nuclear program was 2,000 bombing sorties, said he expected to discuss the issue during the rest of his trip to Saudi Arabia, Israel and Jordan.

US F - 16s have led the three - year air war against ISIS in Iraq and Syria, flying 15 % of the sorties.

The 55th ECG recently eclipsed 10,900 combat sorties and 66,500 flight hours as they provided U.S. and Coalition forces and Joint Commanders a flexible advantage across the spectrum of conflict.

They would realize that by these sorties they harm not just their own already shaky credibility but also the people who will be shocked, feel betrayed, and respond with fury.

Identifying with Radha's pounding breasts as she steals out at night to meet Krishna, other poets graphically describe her fear while merely hinting at the suppressed thrill of her sortie, the arousal sharpened by the threat of discovery.

He and not his proxies needs to explain that vision of order, the strategy for getting there, and how sending in cruise missiles or flying bombing sorties fits into that strategy.

No less a buccaneer than Harry Morgan himself used Roatàn as a base for sorties against the Spanish plate fleets in the 1600s.

His bat flashed like a cracking whip, launching the ball on a 418 - foot sortie into a maintenance tunnel in rightfield.

From the Cockleshell Heroes daring 1942 raid deep into Nazi - occupied France to the dangerous sorties into enemy territory during the Gulf wars, their actions have epitomised heroism.

He said: «In continuation of the counter insurgency, the air component in the last one month conducted 286 operational sorties against terrorists» targets from 25 December to date in the Sambisa forest covering an area of 157,000 km2 which is equivalent to the total land mass of South Korea, Portugal and Togo in a total of 536 hours, 21 minutes were flown by various platforms engaged in the operations, «This translates into 316,637.5 litres of aviation fuel which amounts to N60.3 million, excluding the cost of maintenance and armament expended.»

The Nigerian military has flown more than 300 sorties in the hunt for the abducted schoolgirls, a Major has told ITV News» Rageh Omaar.

The Nigerian military has flown more than 300 sorties in the search for the abducted schoolgirls, Major General Chris Olukolade has told ITV News» Rageh Omaar.

The first trips will be Apollo - like sorties, brief visits to test techniques and equipment and to begin building the outpost.

In another exercise, Operation Powerhouse, his planes flew nearly one thousand simultaneous sorties from more than thirty bases around the world to intimidate Moscow.

A founder of the original group based in Norman, Bluestein prefers to restrict himself to brief sorties from this college town on days that show maximum potential.

After the first few sorties to prove the hardware ---- and there's nothing wrong with going through a transient, sortie mission phase, as long as we eventually move beyond it ---- we'll need a sizable - enough lander in order to design an unmanned cargo - transport variant, so that a base module can be sent Moonward ahead of the designated crew; hence expanding & lengthening our manned surface operations.

About Blog A round up of our bird ringing activities, birding trips and other wildlife sorties within the UK and whenever we get chance, elsewhere.

Headed by Jose Mireles, a doctor, the Autodefensas go door - to - door in nighttime sorties, looking for soldiers of the cartel; not everyone in the towns in which the group operates are happy to see them.

Every time you get a «Game Over», the only thing on your mind will be on how to prevent whatever got the best of you in preparation of your next sortie (while, at the same, time browsing the leaderboards to see how your friends are faring in each level).

Missions involve guiding hero units around the map on seek and destroy sorties or establishing and maintaining bases in order to develop a strong, healthy war machine to fend off enemy hit and run attacks while attempting to destroy their base.

Sheridan's script, while meticulously crafted in places, is comprised of numerous clichés (the rookie cop angle is well - mined and one character's motives wind up being, somewhat disappointingly, a revenge sortie boilerplate), but Villeneuve's striking vision and Blunt's ferocious cynosure more than compensates for any see - through shibboleth.

For Film Comment's Seventh Annual Critics» Poll we invited our contributors and colleagues to rank their top 20 films of the year, plus the 10 best unreleased films they discovered on any festival sorties.

Well - stocked with guns and ammo, and armed with a good nickname - the Wolverines, after the school football team - the boys make sorties into town to blow up occupied buildings and generally make a patriotic nusiance of themselves.

How does Egan (Ethan Hawke) manage to combine perilous overseas sorties and domestic routine?

McQueen's direction has a mesmerising quality about it, whether reflecting Brandon's alienation in the cool glass and steel minimalism of Midtown, or his inner torment in sex sorties Downtown.

The total of this training mode comes to 42 missions (43 if you count the obligatory «boss» level at the end) which initially seems like a lot, but most of the sorties can be finished in a matter of minutes.

by A.B. Demaus / Standard's V - Eight — Digby Lovel recounts the standard Motor Company's brave sortie into the world of the multi-cylinder engine / The Supreme Sunbeam — Part three by Chris Minors / Special Bodies in the 30's «Dressing up the Morris» by Michael Worthington - Williams.

Long - time Mitsubishi rally pilot Hiroshi Masuoka will take on the dual roles of team captain and driver for a sortie in the Baja Portalegre 500 cross-country rally near the end of October.

First, although British losses were relatively low at first, they rose dramatically over subsequent sorties.

They face predators, poison and all the dangers of their distant sorties.

The battle of competing e-readers has all been won by Amazon's Kindle line of products, but there still manage to be a few sorties here and there from the sidelines.

It's a reversible contraption that's breezy inside and out, making every outdoor sortie cool and stylish.

Directions: Metro Montparnasse, Sortie Boulevard du Montparnasse.

Sortie: Boulevard Raspail.

Puerto Princesa, Palawan - One of the cleanest cities in the Philippines, it has white sand beaches and scuba diving sorties.

between the Frigate birds and the Boobie birds are so swift and remarkable that even the Red Baron in his aerial sorties (dogfights) would at best remind one or a lumbering Pterodactyl.

Every sortie carries only four people and provides an aerial perspective over the most spectacular and remote sections of the outer Great Barrier Reef and World Heritage listed coastal Rainforest.

About Blog A round up of our bird ringing activities, birding trips and other wildlife sorties within the UK and whenever we get chance, elsewhere.

The focus of the game is to undertake missions in a third person action setting, which pay money for you to buy more parts and undertake more challenging though better paying sorties.

A new Orokin Moonbase map has also been added along with weekly challenges, and a new sortie mission system provides big endgame challenges for solo players and groups.

It's a Western genre done justice by a Japanese studio in a way that echoes Platinum's Vanquish as a response to Gears Of War; by stripping back the multiplayer and focusing on the solo sorties, Capcom has crafted its finest RPG to date.

As a method of adding even more variables and infiltration options in a given sortie, overheard conversations and documents found in the field can mean the difference between spending 15 minutes searching for a target in a compound versus spending two minutes due to learning about the target's exact location ahead of time.

The latter are mix of arena encounters and short sorties, closer in fact to the last two games in terms of complexity and length.