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unusual facts about reconnaissance mission



Zafar Muhammad Khan

Sensing a deteriorating military scenario with the move of Indian aircraft carrier INS Vikrant close to East Pakistan, the Pakistan Navy launched a covert reconnaissance mission codenamed "Operation Falcon".


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Action of 7 September 2009

On 7 September Brandenburg launched a Sea Lynx helicopter to perform a reconnaissance mission on a suspected skiff just south of Al Mukalla, Yemen.

The Action of 7 September 2009 took place when the German frigate Brandenburg, taking part of Operation Atalanta, chased and captured a pirate skiff south of Al Mukalla, in the Gulf of Aden, after suspicious activity was spotted on the small vessel by the frigate’s helicopter during a reconnaissance mission.

Charles Piers Egerton Hall

He had been on high level reconnaissance mission to Düsseldorf when he was either shot down or suffered engine failure (Accounts Vary).

Denys Corbett Wilson

A Lieutenant serving in the Third Squadron, Royal Flying Corps, on 10 May 1915 Corbett-Wilson and his observer were on a reconnaissance mission in a Morane Parasol when their aircraft was struck by an enemy shell.

Indispensable Reefs

During the Battle of the Coral Sea on May 7, 1942 a two Japanese carrier attack planes B5N2 (EI-306 and probably EI-302) flying reconnaissance mission from the carrier Shokaku ditched on Indispensable Reef due to lack of fuel.

Kirkwood, Atlanta

Brig. Gen. Walter Q. Gresham received a career-ending wound while on a reconnaissance mission.

Project HOMERUN

On a typical RB-47H reconnaissance mission covering 5,984 mi (9,360 km), the aircraft would fly from Thule, Greenland to the Kara Sea to Murmansk and then return only to find Thule weathered-in, forcing the flight from the air-refueling/decision point near the northeast shore of Greenland to one of three equidistant alternates: Goose Bay, Labrador, London, or Fairbanks, Alaska.

Rippon, West Virginia

In one of these, on November 9, 1862, Union General John W. Geary undertook a reconnaissance mission from Harpers Ferry.

The Chaos Engine

A time traveller on a reconnaissance mission from the distant future became stranded in England of the late 1800s, and his technology came into the hands of the Royal Society led by Baron Fortesque (based upon Charles Babbage), a grand inventor.

Thomas D. Milling

In 1915, he and Byron Q. Jones were the first army aviators to perform an aerial combat reconnaissance mission.

Uday Singh Taunque

On, December 1, 2003, Singh was serving as the gunner in the lead Humvee of his platoon while on reconnaissance mission in Habbaniyah.