Sortie is a term for deployment of one military aircraft or a ship for the purposes of a specific mission, whether alone, or with other aircraft or vessels. In military aviation, it is used to indicate the total usages of individual machines, so that (for example) a group of six planes flying six missions would amount to 36 sorties. Airbus A380 An aircraft is any machine capable of atmospheric flight. ... Italian ship-rigged vessel Amerigo Vespucci in New York Harbor, 1976 A ship is a large, sea-going watercraft, usually with multiple decks. ... Military aviation is used to attack or defend a country through the sky. ...

The term originated in naval usage but was carried over to aircraft. In French, sortie literally means "exit." It has evolved to mean a short period of conflict, as in the time when the vehicles and vessels are away from their carrier or local berth. The multinational Combined Task Force One Five Zero (CTF-150) The British Grand Fleet, the supreme naval force of WW1 A rare occurrence of a 5-country multinational fleet, during Operation Enduring Freedom in the Oman Sea. ...

In siege warfare, a sortie can be launched against the besiegers by the defenders, often through a sally port. A siege is a prolonged military blockade and assault of a city or fortress with the intent of conquering by force or attrition. ... An example of a Sally port, here is the main entrance to Fort McHenry, in Baltimore, Maryland. ...

External links

• Sortie article at Memory Alpha, the Star Trek wiki

à Memory Alpha (often abbreviated to MA) is a collaborative project to create the most definitive, accurate and accessible encyclopedic reference for topics related to the Star Trek fictional universe. ... Star Trek collectively refers to an American science-fiction franchise spanning six unique television series (which comprise 726 episodes) and ten feature films, in addition to hundreds of novels, computer and video games, fan stories, and other works of fiction — all of which are set within the same fictional universe... The word wiki is a shorter form of wiki wiki (weekie, weekie) which is from the native language of Hawaii (Hawaiian), where it is commonly used as an adjective to denote something quick or fast (Hawaiian dictionary). ...