Exact Match:
- sortie
- (military) an operational flight by a single aircraft (as in a military operation)
- a military action in which besieged troops burst forth from their position
Synonyms:
- aggravated assault,
- aggression,
- air cover,
- air raid,
- air support,
- amphibious attack,
- armed assault,
- assailing,
- assailment,
- assault,
- attack,
- banzai attack,
- blitz,
- blitzkrieg,
- bombing,
- breakthrough,
- charge,
- counterattack,
- counteroffensive,
- coup de main,
- cover,
- crippling attack,
- dead set at,
- descent on,
- diversion,
- diversionary attack,
- drive,
- dry run,
- flank attack,
- frontal attack,
- gas attack,
- head-on attack,
- infiltration,
- lightning attack,
- lightning war,
- mass attack,
- megadeath,
- milk run,
- mission,
- mugging,
- offense,
- offensive,
- onset,
- onslaught,
- overkill,
- panzer warfare,
- push,
- reconnaissance,
- reconnaissance mission,
- run against,
- run at,
- rush,
- sally,
- scramble,
- shock tactics,
- shuttle raid,
- strafing,
- strike,
- training mission,
- umbrella,
- unprovoked assault