The sudden issuing of a body of troops, usually small, from a besieged place to attack or harass the besiegers; a sally.

a mission flown by a military aircraft

A sudden attack on besiegers by troops from a defensive work. The main objective was to destroy siege works that had been constructed by the aggressors. Also called a sally.

one aircraft takeoff and landing to conduct a mission.

a military action in which besieged troops burst forth from their position

(military) an operational flight by a single aircraft (as in a military operation)

a flight obviously

a flight of combat aircraft sent on a mission

a single flight by a single plane

a single flight of a combat aircraft on a mission

a takeoff and landing, and this means many pilots will be flying back and forth from their bases to Iraq on bombing runs three times a day, said Tim Brown, a former Air Force official now with the defense think tank Globalsecurity

one mission flown by one aircraft, standard measure of air power

An airplane airborne on a mission against the enemy.

Name of a flight

A flown mission.

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 each would amount to 36 sorties.