reconnaissance

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Firefighters were able to get a better handle on the situation after two overnight reconnaissance missions into the 15-acre manufacturing complex on the 12000 block of Western Avenue in Garden Grove.

From Los Angeles Times • May 25, 2026

The divers "are highly trained" and "conducted an extensive reconnaissance with us, and developed a conservative dive plan, considering that no one knew the cave well", Marroni said.

From Barron's • May 21, 2026

CBS News last week reported that multiple Iranian aircraft were parked on a Pakistani airfield, including an Iranian air force RC-130, a reconnaissance and intelligence-gathering aircraft.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026

By the time Powers’s U-2 was shot down, Johnson was already on to his next project, the even more successful SR-71 Blackbird—another high-altitude reconnaissance plane—that flew higher, faster and farther than the U-2.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

Life in Turkey was, in Barbara’s words, a “marriage of three”—husband, wife, and the strange plane in which Frank conducted what he described as “weather reconnaissance flights.”

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin