sortie

Turk’s bad back makes it a brief sortie, but the attempt confirms that their friendship remains fundamentally intact.

From Salon ● Feb. 26, 2026

Air-superiority missions, for instance, would require them to sortie and remain “on station” in Taiwan’s vicinity for a time before returning, which isn’t viable from Guam, Heginbotham said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 29, 2025

But this time the Russian plane wasn’t on a bombing sortie.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2024

“We have the capability to sortie at any time and anywhere, be it at day, at night, or before dawn,” Wei Xiaogang, an instructor with the People’s Liberation Army Air Force bomber group told CCTV.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 19, 2023

“You can hope there ain’t a sortie tonight, Prince O. Or if there is, you can pirouette after the enemy to fright them.”

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

Made at secret locations across Ukraine by Bavovna, the Perun Max can carry "three projectiles, drop them on targets, return, reload and take off again," making up to 30 sorties a night, he said.

From Barron's ● Apr. 24, 2026

Indian air force helicopters flew several sorties rescuing hundreds of people, including foreign nationals.

From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2026

The F-15E jet fighter and A-10 attack plane were the first U.S. or Israeli aircraft to be shot down in thousands of sorties flown in Iranian airspace.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 4, 2026

Its air force has been flying thousands of sorties around the clock over Iran.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 16, 2026

Above all, his sorties reinforced his belief that the Wooded Island, despite the Japanese temple, should be made as wild as possible.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

The ROK Air Force then sortied its fighters, including about 80 fifth-generation F-35As.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 4, 2022

While his classmates flew long, bitterly cold patrols at the front that winter, young Stalin sortied into Moscow.

From Time Magazine Archive

Japan's main fleet never again sortied in full force.

From Time Magazine Archive

Five weeks ago, in the midst of the rioting that gripped the quiet city of Masan during Korea's presidential elections, a 16-year-old student named Kim Chu Yul sortied out into Masan's streets and never returned.

From Time Magazine Archive

Let the man who was a hero—Daulac; Brock; the twelve who sortied at Lacolle Mill; our deathless three hundred of Chateauguay,—never to be forgotten.

From The Young Seigneur Or, Nation-Making by W. D. (William Douw) Lighthall