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Parent topics
- Fighter aircraft [r]: Airplanes that have a principal mission of destroying other airplanes in flight, often with a secondary capability to attack ground targets [e]
- United States Marine Corps [r]: A branch of the United States Armed Forces, with primary responsibilities as naval infantry and in amphibious warfare, are organized in Marine Air-Ground Task Forces capable of serving as up to corps headquarters with integrated close air support [e]
- U.S. Navy [r]: The branch of the United States Armed Forces charged with sea operations [e]
- Aircraft carrier [r]: A warship designed to launch and recover combat aircraft. [e]
- Bomber aircraft [r]: Airplanes optimized to deliver weapons to surface targets, rather than to fight other airplanes. [e]
- Carrier-capable [r]: An aircraft capable of catapult takeoffs and arrested landings on an aircraft carrier. [e]
Subtopics
Weapons
- AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapon [r]: A U.S. precision guided munition, originally an unpowered guided bomb with much greater gliding range than the cheaper Joint Direct Action Munition; powered variants with more extensive capabilities are in development [e]
- AGM-65 Maverick [r]: Short-range air-to-surface missile with multiple guidance and warhead options, certified for 25 past and present aircraft [e]
- AGM-84 Harpoon [r]: A U.S. developed anti-shipping missile that can be launched from aircraft, ships and submarines [e]
- AIM-120 AMRAAM [r]: A high-performance. beyond-visual-range, air-to-air missile with inertial midcourse guidance and active radar terminal guidane, developed by the U.S. and used on the aircraft of a number of countries, as well as in surface-to-air missile variants [e]
- AIM-9 Sidewinder [r]: The first operational heat-seeking air-to-air missile, this weapon, with five generations of improvements, has been in service for over fifty years. [e]
- B61 (nuclear weapon) [r]: A thermonuclear fusion device implemented as a "tactical" gravity bomb that has a low to medium variable yield; the B61-11 version has limited ground penetration capability [e]
- B83 (nuclear weapon) [r]: A thermonuclear gravity bomb whose variable yield can be set to the highest of any deployed U.S. nuclear weapon [e]
- Joint Direct Action Munition [r]: An add-on guidance kit that converts a standard "dumb bomb" into a precision-guided munition [e]
- Unguided rocket [r]: A form of artillery weapon that uses a rocket motor to propel a warhead at a target, using no guidance once launched [e]
Electronics
- ALE-47 [r]: An intelligent countermeasures dispenser for military aircraft, which can receive commands directly from warning receivers, and dispense expendable radar and infrared decoys, as well as manage a retrievable decoy towed via an fiber optic cable [e]
- ALE-50 [r]: An expendable, actively transmitting radar decoy pod that is towed behind the aircraft it protects [e]
- ALE-55 [r]: An active electronic attack remote device targeted at radar, spooled out by an AN/ALE-47 dispenser, which can run through the flame of an afterburner and, at the end of its tether, act as a deceptive decoy trackbreaker or a seductive sacrificial decoy [e]
- ALQ-165 [r]: An obsolete electronic warfare jammer on F-111 and F-18 Super Hornet aircraft, replaced on the Super Hornets with the AN/ALQ-214 [e]
- APG-65 [r]: Pulse-doppler mechanically scanned radar for the F-18 Hornet aircraft [e]
- APG-73 [r]: A mechanically-scanned radar midlife upgrade for the capable F-18 Hornet, which has been superceded by two phased-array radar generations on the F-18 Super Hornet. [e]
- LITENING [r]: Electro-optical target acquisition and tracking pods, which mount aircraft wing pylons. [e]
- Night vision devices [r]: Devices that amplify very low levels of visible or infrared light, such as starlight, allowing people to see in apparent darkness. They do not work when no light is present, as do forward-looking infrared systems [e]
- APG-79 [r]: active electronically scanned array radar for the F-18 Super Hornet and EF-18 Growler [e]
- APG-81 [r]: active electronically scanned array radar for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter series [e]
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- Forward-looking infrared [r]: A device that can "see" objects by their heat emissions and difference from background, in conditions including night and fog [e]
- Joint Tactical Information Distribution System [r]: The primary communications system used for sharing tactical information internally, and among NATO, Australia, and other U.S. allies [e]
Operations
- Gulf War [r]: The conflict started by the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990, and ended with the liberation of Kuwait and major damage to Iraqi forces, by a US-led UN coalition in 1991. [e]
Other related topics
- F-18 Super Hornet [r]: A new generation of carrier-based fighter beyond the F-18 Hornet, this evolution provides an architecture with even greater expansion, especially with the AN/APG-79 AESA radar, more powerful computers and communications, and a new engine with longer range. [e]
- F-35 Joint Strike Fighter [r]: A family of 5th generation multirole fighter, being developed in versions to operate from conventional airfields, in short takeoff and vertical landing for small carrier and forward-based land operations, and in carrier-capable conventional takeoff and landing. [e]
- F-35C Lightning II [r]: U.S. Navy version of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, intended for carrier operations [e]}
