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The French had first used balloons for reconnaissance during the Napoleanic wars and later in the Franco-Prussian War. So aerial reconnaissance was a strategy that was familiar to them, and it was natural that they would use aircraft for this purpose as planes became able to perform that function.
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Aerial reconnaissance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Aerial , or Air Reconnaissance , is the reconnaissance that is usually conducted by unmanned aerial vehicles or reconnaissance aircraft. Their roles are to collect IMINT, SIGINT and MASINT. Aerial ...
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Millions photographs taken by Allied airmen during secret missions in World War II are being declassified and digitized in a huge archive called Tara (The Aerial Reconnaissance Archives).
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Extensive archive of aerial photographs taken by British RAF reconnaissance pilots.
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Intelligence from above, by Allan Williams ... During World War Two, aerial reconnaissance was one of the key methods of obtaining intelligence about the enemy and their activities. Photographs provided concrete evidence - fast. Within hours of a reconnaissance sortie, the film could be developed, printed and interpreted.
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World War II; Nighttime Aerial Reconnaissance Photograph; March 15, 194 ... The U.S. Army Air Force asked MIT's Harold Edgerton in 1939 to design a flash lamp strong enough to enable aerial photography by night of enemy activities on the ground. ... Nighttime Aerial Reconnaissance Photograph, 1944...
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Photography > Aerial Reconnaissance and Imagery Analysis; Acronyms; ADR - Air Data Relay; AEW - Airborne Early Warning; A-Gear - Arresting Gear; APV - Automatically Piloted Vehicle; AV - Air Vehicle; BDA - Battle Damage Assessment;
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Photography > Aerial Reconnaissance and Imagery Analysis > Photo Interpretation & Imagery Analysis;; Historical Overview of Aerial Reconnaissance, Surveillance and Target Acquisition; About 500 B.C. the great Chinese military thinker, Sun Tzu, wrote a treatise on war in which he said:
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The National Archives, Keele University and the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS) have joined forces to secure the future long-term preservation and continued development of the aerial reconnaissance archive.
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