Our first necessity, at the very outset of war, is post-attack reconnaissance.

It is important, however, to remember that the Sheridan was not developed as an assault gun, but as a light reconnaissance vehicle.

As a result they are not intended for heavy fighting ; their normal use is for reconnaissance, command, control, and communications, or for use against lightly armed insurgents or rioters.

The latest AIM-120D AMRAAM has a significantly lower range of about, but the AMRAAM is much shorter, lighter, and more flexible in its use against a wide variety of targets, including fighter planes, bombers, helicopters, patrol planes, and reconnaissance planes.

The bicycle is not suited for combat, but it has been used as a method of reconnaissance as well as transporting soldiers and supplies to combat zones.

Egypt is one of the few countries in the Middle East, and the only Arab state, with a reconnaissance satellite and has launched another one in 2007.

* 1995 – The Corona reconnaissance satellite program, in existence from 1959 to 1972, is declassified.

* Simcoe's regiment is still called the Queen's York Rangers, now an armoured reconnaissance regiment of the Canadian Forces reserves.

Luxembourg's participation in various UN, EU and NATO missions is drawn from Compagnie D. As a rifle company, it mirrors Compagnie A in organisation, with a command element and three reconnaissance platoons.

The Army is 15, 000 strong, according to the IISS, with six military regions, two camel corps battalions, one battalion of T-54 / 55 battle tanks, one armoured reconnaissance squadron, eight garrison infantry battalions, seven motorised infantry battalions, one commando / para battalion, 3 artillery battalions, 4 air defence batteries, one engineer company, and one guard battalion.

* 1754 – French and Indian War: in the first engagement of the war, Virginia militia under 22-year-old Lieutenant Colonel George Washington defeat a French reconnaissance party in the Battle of Jumonville Glen in what is now Fayette County in southwestern Pennsylvania.

* 1962 – Major Rudolf Anderson of the United States Air Force becomes the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis when his U-2 reconnaissance airplane is shot down in Cuba by a Soviet-supplied SA-2 Guideline surface-to-air missile.

Very little is known about the full power of these satellites, as governments who operate them usually keep information pertaining to their reconnaissance satellites classified.

This category is distinct from other observatories located in space that are pointed toward the earth for the purpose of reconnaissance and other types of information gathering.

Antonov's airplanes ( design office prefix An ) range from the rugged An-2 biplane ( which itself is comparatively large for a biplane ) through the An-28 reconnaissance aircraft to the massive An-124 Ruslan and An-225 Mriya strategic airlifters ( the latter being the world's heaviest aircraft with only one currently in service ).

This process is called reconnaissance or recce.

A spy satellite ( officially referred to as a reconnaissance satellite ) is an Earth observation satellite or communications satellite deployed for military or intelligence applications.

The majority of these functions are some form of remote sensing ; this is central to the reconnaissance role most UAVs fulfill.

Pilot Lieutenant Cameron, on a reconnaissance flight, spots a Japanese gunship 15 miles away which can target the island, but is out of range of the island's weapons.

This is in contrast to other special forces units, which specialize in counter-terrorism, reconnaissance, and sabotage.

The Royal Armoured Corps is divided into those regiments that operate main battle tanks ( armoured regiments ) and those that operate reconnaissance tanks ( formation reconnaissance regiments ).

However, for operational purposes, the Household Cavalry Regiment is considered to be part of the RAC and constitutes the fifth formation reconnaissance regiment.

The small directorate of Naval Intelligence ( while the headquarters and personnel, facilities, and directions were coordinated by West ) had vital role in directing special and reconnaissance missions, and intelligence gathering, also was charged with taking reasonable actions to slow down the Indian threat.

In the face of Allied air superiority, the German air service was having difficulty acquiring vital reconnaissance information, and could do little to prevent Allied squadrons from completing effective reconnaissance and close support of their armies.

It remains a vital activity by ground forces and includes camouflage and concealment to avoid detection by reconnaissance and attacking aircraft.

After the armed forces have become stationary during wartime and emergency of peace time the sanitary epidemiological reconnaissance turns into sanitary and epidemiological surveillance and medical control of vital and communal activity of the armed forces.,

By late 1915 the Germans had achieved air superiority, making Allied access to vital intelligence derived from continual aerial reconnaissance more dangerous to acquire.

The Royal Navy also made extensive use of the Bermuda sloop, both as a cruiser against French privateers, slavers, and smugglers, and also as its standard advice vessels, carrying communications, vital persons and materials, and performing reconnaissance duties for the fleets.

The Selous Scouts acted as a combat reconnaissance force, with the mission of infiltrating Rhodesia's tribal population and guerrilla networks, pinpointing rebel groups and relaying vital information back to the conventional forces earmarked to carry out the actual attacks.

Co-operation with ground units was vital during sorties around this time and during one mission Flight Lieutenant McFall, carrying out a Lysander reconnaissance, located the enemy unit and then landed beside Allied gun batteries in order to direct the fire.

The LRRP operated on reconnaissance and combat patrols, either obtaining highly vital intelligence, or performing highly dangerous raids and ambushes.

By late 1915 the Germans had achieved air superiority, making Allied access to vital intelligence derived from continual aerial reconnaissance more dangerous to acquire.

The mission to China demonstrated that Marine Aviation was vital to the expeditionary role Marine forces were called on to perform and the squadron performed photography, mapping and reconnaissance missions while deployed.

As the Allied Coalition began to deploy forces to the Gulf in the latter part of 1990, it quickly became apparent that the unique night reconnaissance capability of the Tornado GR. 1A could provide vital intelligence to the Allied commanders.

Following this, the widespread adoption of ailerons versus wing warping made aircraft much easier to control, and only a decade later, at the start of World War I, heavier-than-air powered aircraft had become practical for reconnaissance, artillery spotting, and even attacks against ground positions.

The level of armour protection between AFVs varies greatly-a main battle tank will normally be designed to take hits from other tank guns and anti-tank missiles, whilst light reconnaissance vehicles are often only armoured " just in case ".

Weaponry varies by a very wide degree between AFVs-lighter vehicles for infantry carrying, reconnaissance or specialist roles may have only a machine gun for self-defence ( or no armament at all ), whereas heavy self propelled artillery will carry large guns, mortars or rocket launchers.

They are distinct from unmanned aerial vehicles ( UAV ) in that they are used only as weapons and not for reconnaissance.

Almagro's own reconnaissance of the land and the bad news of Gómez de Alvarado's encounter with the fierce Mapuches, along with the bitter cold winter that settled ferociously upon them, only served to confirm that everything had failed.

The only PDP-3 was built by the CIA's Scientific Engineering Institute ( SEI ) in Waltham, MA to process radar cross section data for the Lockheed A-12 reconnaissance aircraft in 1960.

This would become a formative experience for Baden-Powell not only because he had the time of his life commanding reconnaissance missions into enemy territory, but because many of his later Boy Scout ideas took hold here.

Moreover, when the subsequent V-2 rocket blitz began with only a few minutes from launch to impact, the deception was enhanced by providing locations genuinely damaged by bombing, verifiable by aerial reconnaissance, for impacts in central London, but each time-tagged with the time of an earlier impact that had fallen 5 – 8 miles short of central London.

Following this, the widespread adoption of ailerons rather than wing warping made aircraft much easier to control, and only a decade later, at the start of World War I, heavier-than-air powered aircraft had become practical for reconnaissance, artillery spotting, and even attacks against ground positions.

Official War Office policy was to purchase only aircraft designed by the Royal Aircraft Establishment, and Bristol had already built a number of their B. E. 2 two-seater reconnaissance aircraft.

Some military elements tasked with reconnaissance are armed only for self-defence, and rely on stealth to gather information.

During the Continuation War, Koivisto served in the Infantry Detachment Törni, led by the famous Lauri Törni, which was a reconnaissance detachment operating behind the enemy lines and open to selected volunteers only.

Thirteen more wins followed in October, bringing his total to thirteen Fokker D. VIIs, four other German fighters, five highly defended observation balloons, and only four of the easier two-seated reconnaissance planes.

The HAC Regiment is a unit of the Territorial Army based just north of the City of London providing the British Army with its only dedicated Surveillance and Target Acquisition patrol regiment — operating small covert reconnaissance patrols gathering intelligence and target information.

"... the only tanks claimed were by Typhoons on armed reconnaissance missions in areas away from the actual battle.

In contrast with the SASR's reconnaissance role, when operating in the counter terrorism role SASR units are only tasked with the mission statement " to rescue the hostages ".

Saint-Exupéry only received the prize in early 1942, as he had been flying as a reconnaissance pilot during the Battle of France when the award was announced earlier.

Prior to the Italian invasion of Egypt, under Air Commodore Raymond Collishaw, the RAF in Egypt — which comprised nine squadrons — focused its activities on ground support, reconnaissance, and only when necessary aerial combat with the Italian Regia Aeronautica.

Sir John, concerned that he had only four infantry divisions rather than the planned six, wanted to keep Allenby's cavalry division in reserve, and refused Lanrezac's request that he lend it for reconnaissance in front of the French forces ( Lanrezac misunderstood that French intended to use the British cavalry as mounted infantry ).

The only two WB-57F aircraft used for atmospheric research and reconnaissance still flying in the world today are housed at Ellington.