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From: ham@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (Bob Hamilton)
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Subject: Re: How many planes in a sortie?
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Date: 13 Feb 91 22:34:36 GMT
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From: ham@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (Bob Hamilton)

> A sortie is one plane one mission.  If six planes go out on one
> mission then there are six sorties logged.

> Assuming there are no aborted missions I would expect it is 2 X #
> sorties.  Two because the plane has to take off and then land.

Huh?  sortie, n	... 3.  The flying of an airplane on a combat mission.

As I understand it, a sortie consists of a launch, followed, in
decreasing order of probability, by the following optional activities:

    1.  Penetration
    2.  Attack
    3.  Return
    4.  Recovery


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