Sortie
Sortie is a term for deployment of one military aircraft or a ship for the purposes of a specific mission, whether alone, or with other aircraft or vessels. In military aviation it is used to indicate the total usages of individual machines, so that (for example) a group of five planes flying five missions would amount to 25 sorties.
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Aircraft - Ship - Military aviation
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The term originated in naval usage, but was carried over to aircraft. In French, sortie literally means "go out". It has evolved to mean a short period of conflict, as in the time when the vehicles and vessels are away from their carrier or local berth.
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