reconnaissance
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The Navy has previously trained External link bottlenose dolphins and sea lions, chiefly for reconnaissance and recovering objects like undersea mines.
From Barron's • May 14, 2026
The U.S. finished its withdrawal from neighboring Niger in 2024, including from a drone base that conducted counterterrorism intelligence-gathering and reconnaissance missions in the Sahel.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026
Centcom said it had "eliminated inbound threats and targeted Iranian military facilities responsible for attacking US forces, including missile and drone launch sites; command and control locations; and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance nodes."
From BBC • May 7, 2026
While Anthropic deserves credit for responsible disclosure, the real warning is that AI-driven discovery collapses the time gap between adversary reconnaissance and exploitation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
In April 1944, amid persistent doubts that Oak Ridge could supply a bomb core, Groves learned of the work and dispatched a reconnaissance team to Philadelphia.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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