Two members of a "kill team" have faced court over an alleged plot to murder a man picking up a child at daycare.

In an escalation of Sydney's increasingly brazen gangland wars, NSW Police on Tuesday pounced on a group of men driving through Revesby in Sydney's southwest with balaclavas and pistols.

The three men - Kevin Mundine, 19, Greall Tighe, 18, and 26-year-old Tyrone Tuiluga Rio - have been charged with conspiracy to murder, accused of trying to intercept and kill their target as he picked up a child at a daycare centre.

The public wasn't in danger because the the men, who were travelling in two cars, were under tight surveillance and contingencies were in place, Assistant Commissioner Scott Cook said.

"They were never going to be allowed to make it to a (daycare) centre - the c

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