Equipment for handling a two-seat spotter aircraft was also to be installed.

This slowed the patrol down, and they were located by an Italian spotter aircraft which dropped a couple of small bombs wide of the mark.

I had to assume the worst scenario, which was that the Iraqis would have spotter aircraft up.

The four later ships had an improved Molynia-ATs fire control system which could accept data from spotter aircraft.

The aircraft were distributed to Argentina's aeroclubs and to the military, which used it as a spotter aircraft.

Learning from the Army Manoeuvres of 1912, many more spotter aircraft were used.

Supporting fires from a nearby battery were subsequently directed by a spotter aircraft overhead, and this temporarily stemmed the Chinese onslaught.

With a loud flapping, the spotter aircraft glided down to the sand on the other side of the crawler.

It was intended to provide a spotter aircraft for warships, to take off from a short ramp since shipboard catapults had not yet been invented.

"They're basically giving the ship back the capability she had when she had spotter aircraft," said Commander Griffin.