surveillance mission

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surveillance
noun[U]
uk
/səˈveɪ.ləns/us
/sɚˈveɪ.ləns/
the careful watching of a person or place, especially by the police or army, because of a crime that has happened or ...
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mission
noun
uk
/ˈmɪʃ.ən/us
/ˈmɪʃ.ən/
an important job, especially a military one, that someone is sent somewhere ...
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After that date, they received a generalsurveillancemissionand permission to build databases.
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As part of the spacesurveillancemission, the wing operates surveillance units.
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Frontex needs to have adequate material and logistical resources to be able to carry out one-off joint operations as well as permanent surveillance missions in high-risk areas.
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The detachment's helicopters primarily concentrated on anti-piracy surveillance missions during this two-week period.
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The 964th flew long range surveillance missions in the late 1950s.
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The robots save lives by providing dismounted fire teams with increased situational awareness and standoff distance during urban warfare, compound clearing operations, and surveillance missions.
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Specifically, they cited anti-submarine warfare and border-area surveillance missions.
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Up to two synoptic surveillance missions per day may be flown on the periphery of systems with a potential for landfall.
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They can be smaller and lighter without a human pilot on board, and fly into dangerous territory for military surveillance missions.
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Their pilots fly surveillance missions, send data back to emergency operations centers, transport emergency workers and supplies, and fly search and rescue missions.
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If the gunboats could operate in the open ocean, they could better protect convoys, conduct surveillance missions, and support conventional amphibious warfare operations.
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Her surveillance missions varied in format.
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