An advance party is a group set ahead of a military force to perform reconnaissance or secure a position.

Missions consist of destroying particular objectives, capturing ships, or performing reconnaissance.

Sometime during the night, she'd programmed four probe missiles to perform initial reconnaissance on the site where we'd land.

During his time in London he mostly performed aerial reconnaissance which inspired his ideas of abstract art.

The Jaguars also performed valuable reconnaissance of the combat area for Coalition forces.

In 1790, as captain of Makrellen, he performed reconnaissance for the squadron.

They'd performed covert reconnaissance, and people were making tactical use of the intelligence information which they'd developed.

During the Vietnam War, it came of age carrying troops, performing reconnaissance and medical evacuation.

The main task was to perform reconnaissance for army units.

Conventional military forces, at battalion level, will often have scout platoons that can perform limited reconnaissance beyond the main line of troops.