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air reconnaissance

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The acquisition of information by employing visual observation and/or sensors in air vehicles.
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Noun1.air reconnaissance - reconnaissance either by visual observation from the air or through the use of airborne sensorsair reconnaissance - reconnaissance either by visual observation from the air or through the use of airborne sensors
reconnaissance, reconnaissance mission - the act of reconnoitring (especially to gain information about an enemy or potential enemy); "an exchange of fire occurred on a reconnaissance mission"


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The Nimrod MRA4, which will be formally declared in service next year, will be the RAF's most high-tech air reconnaissance plane to date.
At times, Gurdial flew over occupied France and Germany on air reconnaissance flights and on more than one occasion, had close encounters with the German Messerschmitt.
The army is strongly mobilised to keep them from leaving the country by positioning themselves on the different possible transit points and by using air reconnaissance," the lawmaker told AFP on condition of anonymity.
 
 
 
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