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A sortie (from the French word meaning exit or from Latin root surgere meaning to "rise up") is a deployment or dispatch of one military unit, be it an aircraft, ship, or troops, from a strongpoint. The term originated in siege warfare.
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sorties
(Fr. sortir). In a siege, parties who sally out of a town secretly to annoy the besiegers, and retard their operations.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of sorties in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
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The numerical value of sorties in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
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PLAAF sorties are pretty routine at this point, but stepping up bomber flights on a major PRC( People's Republic of China) holiday underscores that this is political warfare and part of a massive coercion campaign.
The idea that Western fighter aircraft would allow Ukraine to operate combat air sorties over Russian territory in any sort of regular sense is just fantasy, the reality is that Western fighter aircraft will also be very constrained by the surface-to-air threat by Russian ground-based air defense systems, just as the Ukrainians currently are.
People talk very cavalierly about these strikes. It's really appalling to me that this kind of discussion goes on, this is not a pinprick attack. This would be weeks of hundreds of U.S. sorties. This would be the beginning of a major war in the Middle East that would make the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq look like warm-up acts, and it would have regional consequences.
Over the last few years and particularly this year and last year, with the start of the Ukraine crisis, Russia has picked up the number of sorties, his view is that Russia's political standing and the respect accorded to it have fallen away very much since the end of the Cold War.
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