How to pronounce“sortie”in English
catch the end one. And occasionally we'll see a jet just go over because it's not going to catch them and then come back again. We're seeing about 20
sorties a day. Underneath this deck of course is all the mechanics for these cables, the arresttor gear. And even below that then there are the lifts that
take the aircraft once they flow missions down to the engineering hanger to make sure they're ready for the next day.
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Definitions of “sortie”
An attack made by troops from a besieged position; a sally.
“The events of these sieges show that a bold and vigorous sortie in force might carry destruction through every part of a besieger's approaches, where the guard is injudiciously disposed and ill commanded; but that if due precautions have been observed in forming the approaches and posting the defenders, any sortie from a besieged place must be checked with loss in their advance, when the approaches are still distant; or when the approaches are near, should a sortie succeed in pushing into them by a sudden rush, the assailants must inevitably be driven out again in a moment, with terrible slaughter.”
An operational flight carried out by a single military aircraft.
“Their aircraft had no belly gunners and were at the mercy of Luftwaffe fighters that attacked from below. Whenever they lifted off on a mission, they departed with the knowledge that this sortie could easily be their last.”
To carry out a sortie; to sally.
“Five Italian warships identified as two cruisers and three destroyers, sortied down the Albanian coast during the morning of 4 March and commenced shelling the coastal road near Himara and Port Palermo, under cover of a strong fighter escort of G.50bis and CR 42s from the 24º Gruppo CT.”