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• A-10 Thunderbolt II [r]: A heavily armed close air support and ground attack aircraft, which can loiter over a battlefield and then hit targets with great accuracy, while retaining high survivability against ground fire. [e]
• AAR-57 [r]: Mounted on aircraft, the system detects the ultraviolet energy emissions of missile threats [e]
• AC-130 [r]: Heavily armed transport aircraft, based on the C-130 Hercules, used to provide air support to special operations forces. [e]
• AC-47 [r]: A cargo aircraft, with a battery of high-volume automatic weapons, for ground bombardment. [e]
• ACC (disambiguation) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• AGM-84 Harpoon [r]: A U.S. developed anti-shipping missile that can be launched from aircraft, ships and submarines [e]
• AGM-86 ALCM [r]: A long-range cruise missile that can be delivered anywhere in the world from U.S. bases, employing blast or precision penetrating warheads [e]
• AGM-88 HARM [r]: A specialized anti-radiation missile used by U.S., Italian, and German aircraft to attack air defense radar [e]
• AH-64 Apache [r]: A United States Army attack helicopter capable of day/night missions in all weather. [e]
• ALE-39 [r]: An obsolete dispenser of electronic warfare expendables (e.g., flares and chaff), to be replaced by the AN/ALE-47 [e]
• 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]
• ALQ-131 [r]: A pod-mounted intelligent radar jammer of 1990 vintage, with capabilities against both continuous wave and pulse radar in different frequency bands [e]
• ALQ-178 [r]: A U.S. made modular electronic warfare system intended for foreign military sales to F-16 Fighting Falcon operators; not all features will be made available to all countries due to technology transfer controls [e]
• ALQ-184 [r]: A 1990s-vintage multiband radar jammer, in current use, that can use the AN/ALE-50 towed decoy, used by the U.S. and Taiwan [e]
• ALR-69 [r]: A radar warning receiver that characterizes the threat beyond simple warning; of early 2000s vintage on aircraft including the A-10 Thunderbolt II, MC-130 COMBAT TALON, MH-53 PAVE LOW, F-16 Fighting Falcon and C-130 Hercules [e]
• APG-68 [r]: A midlife enhancement of the multifunction radar, currently in its 9th version, for the F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft, with substantial parts commonality with the AN/APQ-164 on the B-1 Lancer bomber [e]
• APG-80 [r]: An alternative upgrade path for F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft radar, using active electronically scanned array technology rather than the incremental upgrade of the AN/APG-68 [e]
• ARC LIGHT [r]: Code name for use of B-52 bombers to deliver very large amounts of conventional bombs to targets in South Vietnam, during the Vietnam War; the term has become generic for large-volume bomb drops against targets without significant air defenses [e]
• ARC-164 [r]: The standard U.S. and NATO UHF radio for military air-to-air and air-to-ground communications, compatible with the HAVE QUICK II electronic protection scheme; it is not a Joint Tactical Radio System device although JTRS units will interoperate with it [e]
• ARC-187 [r]: A multiservice HAVE QUICK II transceiver with JTIDS capability [e]
• ASQ-213 [r]: A pod-mounted anti-radiation missile targeting system for the AGM-88 HARM, originally for F-16 Fighting Falcon fighters but adaptable to any aircraft with the MIL-STD-1553 electronic interface [e]
• Advanced Extremely High Frequency (satellite) [r]: A system of survivable, high-speed military communications satellites going into service, developed by the U.S. Air Force with British, Canadian and Dutch participation [e]
• Aerospace [r]: With the development of operations extending beyond the earth's atmosphere, a more general term than air warfare [e]
• Agent Orange [r]: An herbicide sprayed, by the United States Air Force over suspected enemy hideouts in jungle during the Vietnam War, which proved to have an unexpected and extremely toxic contaminant. [e]
• Air Combat Command [r]: The United States Air Force headquarters responsibility for preparing and training resources for the operational Unified Combatant Commands, as well as doctrinal development [e]
• Air Force One [r]: The air traffic control callsign indicating an aircraft carrying the United States President. [e]
• Air Force Special Operations Command [r]: The Air Component of United States Special Operations Command; lineage includes Air Commando units in the Vietnam War [e]
• Air Mobility Command [r]: The organization responsible for readiness of United States Air Force transport and air refueling aircraft, which report, for operations, to United States Transportation Command [e]
• Air force [r]: The part of a nation's military that is responsible, at the least, for long range air warfare. [e]
• Air refueling [r]: Transferring fuel from one aircraft to another while both are in flight. [e]
• Air superiority [r]: The condition in war in which one side dominates the other side to the extent that it is implausible that the inferior side can put up any effective air missions. [e]
• Air warfare planning [r]: The set of doctrines and procedures for carrying out all types of air warfare, as an integrated whole [e]
• Air-to-surface missile [r]: Launched from an fixed-wing aircraft or helicopter, missiles of this category have a wide variety of ranges, sensors, autonomy vs. man-in-the-loop control, warheads, and need for battle damage assessment [e]
• Airborne Warning and Control System [r]: An airplane that carries early warning radars, possibly weapons control radars, and communications to link it with combat aircraft and ground facilities. It may have an onboard battle staff, or link to a staff on the ground. [e]
• Aircraft carrier [r]: A warship designed to launch and recover combat aircraft. [e]
• Aircraft [r]: A vehicle capable of sustained flight within the Earth's atmosphere. [e]
• Amphetamine [r]: A synthetic central nervous system stimulant which is used, today, to treat limited medical disorders. [e]
• Anthony Burshnick [r]: Retired lieutenant general, United States Air Force, and specialist in air mobility; vice commander of the Military Airlift Command during the Gulf War; adviser; Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs [e]
• Anti-aircraft artillery [r]: A general term for guns that can elevate to high angles and shoot accurately at aircraft, using visual, electro-optical, or radar guidance. [e]
• Anti-shipping missile [r]: An air, surface (sea or land), or submarine-launched missile that can track and intercept a maneuvering ship target against the background of moving water [e]
• Arms control [r]: Treaties and implementation agreements to restrict the development, production, deployment, or transfer of specified weapons or weapons technologies. [e]
• Army aviation [r]: Helicopter, light fixed-wing, and unmanned aerial vehicles intended to be under the direct control of, and immediately responsive to, ground commanders [e]
• Asperger's syndrome [r]: A pervasive developmental condition related to autism. [e]
• Attack helicopter [r]: A helicopter equipped with built-in heavy weapons, which has no standard cargo capacity and is used as a "flying tank" in close air support or battlefield air interdiction. [e]
• B-1 Lancer (bomber) [r]: A supersonic-capable heavy bomber operated by the U.S. Air Force with intercontinental range through air refueling. [e]
• B-2 Spirit (bomber) [r]: U.S. long-range, low-observability "stealth" heavy bomber [e]
• B-52 Superfortress (bomber) [r]: United States Air Force heavy bomber, first version flown in 1952, entered service in 1961, expected to stay operational until at least 2030 [e]
• Battle of Khe Sanh [r]: While there had been fighting at Khe Sanh as early as 1964, with U.S. forces arriving in 1966, the main Battle of Khe Sanh ran from January to April 1968, capturing attention before the start of the Tet offensive at the end of January [e]
• Berlin Blockade [r]: The period, from June 24, 1948 to May 11, 1949, when the Soviet Union cut all land routes to Berlin [e]
• C-47 Skytrain (transport) [r]: One of the many military and commercial variants of the DC-3 (airliner), this was the designation used by the United States Army Air Corps, Air Force, and United States Air Force [e]
• C3I-ISR [r]: Command, control, communications and intelligence, combined with intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance [e]
• CH-53 [r]: Heavy transport helicopter used by the United States Marine Corps and Israel; MH-53 PAVE LOW special operations version used by United States Air Force [e]
• CIA activities in Asia-Pacific [r]: This is a regional-level subpage dealing with CIA intelligence and operations pertaining to the Asia-Pacific area. Large topics may be in subordinate pages. [e]
• CIA activities in Vietnam [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Center for Security Policy [r]: An American conservative research and policy advisory group, founded by Frank Gaffney, Jr., focused on the preservation of all aspects of American national power [e]
• Central Intelligence Agency [r]: The principal civilian intelligence organization of the United States, specializing in all-source intelligence analysis, clandestine human-source intelligence, and covert action. [e]
• Chief of Staff of the Air Force [r]: The senior uniformed leader of the United States Air Force, responsible for development and readiness of Air Force units and representing the Air Force on the Joint Chiefs of Staff, but not in the line of command over Unified Combatant Commands [e]
• Chuck Horner [r]: A retired United States Air Force general, best known for commanding the Coalition air forces in operations against Iraq in 1991. [e]
• Combat Control team [r]: United States Air Force specialists who land with the first paratroop or covert heliborne ground troops into an area, and survey the area from the perspective of aircraft-related information, provide air traffic control, direct close air support, and set up navigational aids. [e]
• Combat search and rescue [r]: The location and rescue of military and civilian personnel in hostile areas, such that a military operation is necessary to retrieve them [e]
• Cuban Missile Crisis [r]: Probably the closest the U.S. and Soviet Union came to nuclear war, a confrontation, in October 1962, when Soviet missiles were discovered in Cuba, and eventually removed through a naval show of force and diplomatic maneuvering [e]
• Davis-Monthan Air Force Base [r]: A large United States Air Force base near Tucson, Arizona; houses the "boneyard" (Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG)) of stored out-of-service aircraft, the 355th Fighter Wing, and the headquarters of the Twelfth Air Force. [e]
• E-8 Joint STARS [r]: A radar aircraft optimized for surveillance of a large land or sea area, returning both tracks and identification of moving vehicles, or radar imaging of the surface. [e]
• EC-130 COMPASS CALL [r]: electronic warfare (communications jamming) and communications intelligence aircraft, optimized for broadcast bands of television and radio [e]
• Edward Lansdale [r]: A U.S. Air Force general on assignment to the CIA, key counterinsurgency advisor to Phillipine President Ramon Magsaysay, involved in French Indochina and South Vietnam 1954-1960, although lost influence in U.S. policymaking through bureaucratic infighting [e]
• Eighteenth Air Force [r]: The intermediate United States Air Force command that is responsible for air refueling and transport aircraft for the operations of United States Transportation Command [e]
• Eighth Air Force [r]: The organization currently "owning" the bombers, information operations, and most intelligence aircraft of the United States Air Force; it conducted strategic bombing against Germany in the Second World War [e]
• Elbridge Durbrow [r]: (1904-1997) United States Ambassador to the Republic of Vietnam (1957 - 1961), career diplomat and Foreign Service Officer. [e]
• Eric Cantor [r]: U.S. Representative (R-VA), Minority Whip; Republican Study Committee [e]
• Explosive ordnance disposal [r]: The techniques of identifying hazardous explosive devices, including unexploded ordnance (UXO) and improvised explosive devices (IED), determining if they can be rendered safe, and either attempting to render them safe or, after suitable precautions, destroying them in place [e]
• F-111 [r]: A first attempt, and failure, to build a fighter aircraft with substantial commonality between the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy; the Navy fleet interceptor version never deployed, although the fighter bomber, and them medium bomber, was competent with the U.S. and Royal Australian air forces [e]
• F-117 Nighthawk [r]: Although it has a fighter designation, actually the first operational stealth light bomber of the U.S. Air Force [e]
• F-15 Eagle [r]: A series of air superiority fighters, designed for the United States Air Force and flown by several countries. The F-15E Strike Eagle is a multirole fighter variant. [e]
• F-15 series fighter aircraft [r]: A series of fourth-generation air-to-air and all-weather fighter-bomber aircraft developed by the U.S. Air Force as the high end of a "high-low" mix with the F-16 Fighting Falcon; used by several friendly countries and has the best air-to-air combat record of any operational fighter [e]
• F-16 Fighting Falcon [r]: A relatively lightweight land-based multirole fighter, developed by the United States Air Force; co-produced with Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway and Portugal; operated by many nations and to be replaced by the F-35A Lightning II. The F-16CJ model is optimized for SEAD. [e]
• F-18 Hornet [r]: A relatively lightweight carrier-capable multirole fighter, developed by the United States Navy and used by several nations, including Canada, in land-based roles; a fourth-generation fighter gradually being replaced by the F-18E/F Super Hornet, and then the F-35. [e]
• 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-35A Lightning II [r]: The variant of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter for the United States Air Force, intended to replace the F-16 Fighting Falcon and A-10; may be exported [e]
• F-4 Phantom II [r]: An extremely successful third-generation fighter, the first effective multirole fighter, which, even after its replacement as a first-line fighter, continued in reconnaissance and suppression of enemy air defense roles well into the 1990s. [e]
• F. E. Warren Air Force Base [r]: A geographically immense United States Air Force base, spreading across Colorado, Nebraska and Wyoming, containing the overall headquarters, Twentieth Air Force, of the operational land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles of the United States, as well as approximately one-third of the missiles [e]
• Federal Aviation Administration [r]: The U.S. government agency responsible for the safe operation of civil aviation and air traffic control, but not for security of aircraft [e]
• 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]
• Fire control (military) [r]: Techniques and equipment to designate military weapons (artillery, guided missiles) to be launched, launching them, and, especially when not precision-guided munitions, adjusting subsequent projectile launches so they achieve the desired effect. [e]
• Flare (electronic warfare) [r]: An expendable electronic warfare decoy form of infrared countermeasures [e]
• Forward Area Air Defense [r]: A U.S. military command and control system for managing air defense, which includes both artillery/air deconfliction and counter-rocket, artillery and mortar missions, near the main battle line, typically under brigade control [e]
• Forward air controller [r]: An individual or team, knowledgeable in both ground and air warfare, who coordinates close air support for a ground unit to which they are responsible [e]
• 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]
• Foundation for Defense of Democracies [r]: An American think tank focusing on threats from terrorism and militant Islamists, from which Democratic advisers resigned and many of the leadership are identified as Republican or conservative [e]
• Fourteenth Air Force [r]: The United States Air Force organization that controls military satellite launch and operations for the Air Force Space Command, and performs space support operations for the United States Strategic Command and probably the National Reconnaissance Office [e]
• Gene Roddenberry [r]: American producer and author best remembered as the creator of the Star Trek television series and its universe. [e]
• 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]
• Health care quality assurance [r]: Activities and programs intended to assure or improve the quality of care in either a defined medical setting or a program. [e]
• Iran-Iraq War [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Israeli Defense Forces [r]: The combined ground, air, and naval armed forces of the state of Israel [e]
• James Davis [r]: Retired as a general, United States Air Force and Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (NATO); Chief Negotiator for the NATO and UN for NATO's participation in the Yugoslavia conflict; adviser, Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs [e]
• Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs [r]: An organization dedicated to advancing the strategic relationship between the US and Israel, with military exchanges, education and research [e]
• John Boyd [r]: United States Air Force colonel who developed both fighter aircraft tactics, and far more general models for command and control; a major theorist of modern warfare [e]
• John Loh [r]: Adviser to the Center for Security Policy; retired general in the United States Air Force who headed Air Combat Command and has been used as an example in case studies in management [e]
• John Warden III [r]: A retired United States Air Force colonel, who, as a planner, developed many of the basic ideas for the air campaign in the 1991 Gulf War. In retirement, he writes, speaks, and consults on strategy. [e]
• Joint Direct Action Munition [r]: An add-on guidance kit that converts a standard "dumb bomb" into a precision-guided munition [e]
• Key West Agreement [r]: A "roles and missions" agreement, of questionable effectiveness, reached after the United States Air Force was created, and disputed that the United States Army and United States Navy should have aircraft able to carry out, respectively, close air support and strike functions [e]
• Kinston Indians [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Korean War [r]: A modern conflict (1950-1953) fought on the Korean peninsula between the US-led UN forces, and the Communist coalition of North Korea and China. [e]
• LITENING [r]: Electro-optical target acquisition and tracking pods, which mount aircraft wing pylons. [e]
• Land attack [r]: A range of technologies and techniques used to attack targets on land from the sea; the targets are usually assumed to be well inland, and the weapons to be non-nuclear [e]
• Lee Butler [r]: General, United States Air Force, who retired in 1994 as the first commander of United States Strategic Command and last commander of Strategic Air Command; now an advocate of arms control and nuclear disarmament [e]
• MC-130 COMBAT SHADOW [r]: A long-range U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command aircraft intended to refuel special operations helicopters, and carry out other clandestine functions such as leaflet drops [e]
• MC-130 COMBAT SPEAR [r]: Evolutionary upgrade of the MC-130H COMBAT TALON II, with improved avionics, structure, and ability to support CV-22 Ospreys as well as helicopters [e]
• MC-130 COMBAT TALON [r]: Special operations transport aircraft primarily intended to support ground forces in denied areas, by airdrop or assault landing; secondary capability of helicopter refueling and navigational assistance. [e]
• MH-53 Pave Low [r]: United States Air Force special operations helicopter that can fly at night, at extremely low altiude, and in most weather. Its main missions are delivering and retrieving special operations personnel. [e]
• MIL-STD-1553 [r]: An extensively used interconnection standard among military electronics components, slow in comparison with local area networks but intended for simple command-response control in electrically noisy environments [e]
• MQ-1 Predator [r]: A medium-altitude, long-endurance, unmanned aerial vehicle used for armed reconnaissance by the Central Intelligence Agency, and for reconnaissance, surveillance and target acquisition at the level of Unified Combatant Commands; it will be replaced by its larger descendant, the MQ-9 Reaper [e]
• MQ-9 Reaper [r]: A U.S. Air Force medium-to-high altitude unmanned aerial vehicle, capable of both attack and intelligence, surveillance and reconnnaissance; operated by the U.S. and U.K. [e]
• MSQ-77 [r]: Vietnam War-era bombing accuracy tracking radar. originally for training but adapted for use in guiding B-52 strikes against targets in South Vietnam, and other applications including ground controlled approach [e]
• Maritime patrol aircraft [r]: Very long range, usually land-based, aircraft optimized for sea surveillance, originally principally for anti-submarine warfare but often with anti-surface warfare capabilities; newer types also have land and littoral surveillance roles [e]
• Mark 8x series conventional bomb [r]: The main family of U.S. high-explosive unguided gravity bombs, to which guidance kits such as the Joint Direct Action Munition can be attached [e]
• Measurement and signature intelligence [r]: A variety of intelligence gathering disciplines complementary to the technical "mainstream" of imagery intelligence and signals intelligence. [e]
• Michael Hayden [r]: Career U.S. military intelligence officer, who headed the Central Intelligence Agency during the second term of the George W. Bush Administration [e]
• Military Assistance Command, Vietnam [r]: Headquarters for most U.S. combat and support units assisting the Republic of Vietnam [e]
• Military [r]: The standing armed forces of a country, that are directed by the national government and are tasked with that nation's defense. [e]
• National Reconnaissance Office [r]: An agency of the United States intelligence community, which designs, procures, launches, and operates intelligence satellites and certain aircraft/UAV platforms. It does not analyze their output. [e]
• National Security Act of 1947 [r]: Core of legislation that restructured the U.S. military from its traditional structure of a separate Army and Navy, creating the United States Air Force, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the predecessor to the U.S. Department of Defense [e]
• National technical means of verification [r]: Euphemism principally for imagery intelligence satellites and other means of strategic arms control verification, principally because the Soviet Union did not want its public to know that they could not prevent Western observation of the state [e]
• Naval infantry [r]: Personnel assigned to naval ships, who are qualified to engage in combat using individual weapons, against enemy personnel on land or on ships that were boarded [e]
• Network Centric Airborne Defense Element (missile) [r]: An air-launched anti-ballistic missile intended for boost-phase intercept, built on largely existing components from the AIM-120 AMRAAM and AIM-9 Sidewinder air-to-air missiles and AN/APG-63 radar [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]
• Nijmegen [r]: University city in the east of The Netherlands [e]
• Ninth Air Force [r]: The air component command of United States Central Command, as well as an intermediate headquarters for a number of U.S.-based units of Air Combat Command. [e]
• Norden bombsight [r]: A much-heralded, but relatively ineffective even by WWII standards, aiming device for unguided gravity bombs; required a bomber to stay in vulnerable straight and level flight and was useless against moving targets [e]
• North American Air Defense Command [r]: The joint Canada-U.S. military organization responsible for aerospace threat warning and defense for North America [e]
• Nuclear weapon [r]: A weapon that produces extremely powerful explosions from principles involving subatomic particle reactions, rather than the chemical reactions among atoms that power conventional explosives [e]
• OH-58 Kiowa Warrior [r]: A United States Army helicopter with extensive sensors for surveillance and guiding weapons fired by other air or ground weapons platforms, and also is a light attack helicopter on its own rights. [e]
• Offutt AFB [r]: United States Air Force base in Omaha, Nebraska, which is the home of United States Strategic Command and the 55th Wing of C3I-ISR aircraft [e]
• Operation Bolo [r]: An offensive counter-air operation, sometimes called a fighter sweep, in which a formation of aircraft, looking like bombers and escorts, flew into North Vietnam to invite fighter attack; the attackers discovered that the "bombers" were actually air superiority fighters [e]
• Operation DESERT SHIELD [r]: That part of the Gulf War following the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, beginning with the acceptance of Coalition support by Saudi Arabia, and ending with the start of the air campaign, Operation DESERT STORM. [e]
• Operation DESERT STORM [r]: That part of the Gulf War, beginning with the first air strikes at 02:00 local time, 17 January 1991, until the main ground assault into Kuwait, Operation DESERT SABRE [e]
• Operation EAGLE PULL [r]: The air evacuation, shortly before the fall of South Vietnam, of U.S. and friendly personnel from Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on April 12, 1975, by U.S. Marines, taking them to a naval task force in the Gulf of Siam [e]
• Operation LINEBACKER II [r]: The most intense air campaign of the Vietnam War, directed against North Vietnam to force it back to the Paris Peace Talks; a peace agreement was signed one month after the start of the 11 days of attacks [e]
• Operation LINEBACKER I [r]: A U.S. bombing campaign targeted against the specific North Vietnamese infrastructure of the Ho Chi Minh trail, with the operational-level goal of interrupting the supply line to People's Army of Viet Nam conventional troops in the South. [e]
• Operational Preparation of the Battlespace [r]: Non-intelligence activities conducted prior to D-Day, H-Hour, in likely or potential areas of employment, to train and prepare for follow-on military operations (United States Special Operations Command) [e]
• Pararescue [r]: A U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command specialty, combining paramedic level emergency medical technician skills with the ability to conduct combat search and rescue behind enemy lines [e]
• Prepositioning ship [r]: Military cargo ships, normally in squadrons of several vessels, that are prepositioned at secure forward locations, in order to speed delivery of sustainment supplies to the initial forces landed by air or from combat amphibious warfare ships. [e]
• R.E.M. [r]: A rock and roll band, a mainstay on college radio throughout the 1980s, and in virtue of its increasing popularity into the 90s, became credited as one of the major forces in bringing alternative rock into some mainstream acceptance. [e]
• RC-135 COBRA BALL [r]: A United States Air Force aircraft for collecting measurement and signature intelligence, primarily on foreign missiles. A COBRA BALL aircraft can be converted to a RC-135 RIVET JOINT. [e]
• RC-135 COMBAT SENT [r]: A long-range aircraft, operated by the United States Air Force, for collecting electronic intelligence [e]
• RC-135 RIVET JOINT [r]: A United States Air Force long-range aircraft for collecting communications intelligence [e]
• RC-135 family aircraft [r]: A group of U.S. Air Force aircraft payloads for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance that share the basic KC-135 Stratotanker airframe [e]
• Radar [r]: A contraction of radio direction and ranging, used for detecting and tracking targets, navigation, imagery, and special applications. [e]
• Rivet (disambiguation) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Robert Eaglet [r]: Retired from the United States Air Force as a major general in systems acquisition; experience in systems engineering, large-scale procurement, and as a fighter pilot; Advisor, Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs [e]
• SIGINT aircraft-based platforms [r]: An aircraft or unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that carries signals intelligence sensors [e]
• Safety of Life at Sea [r]: International convention defining safety requirements for ships [e]
• Satellite orbits [r]: The path of a celestial body or an artificial satellite as it revolves around another body. [e]
• Single Integrated Operational Plan [r]: The U.S. plan and doctrine for the use of nuclear weapons in a large campaign, prepared for all services by the United States Strategic Command, based on Joint Chiefs of Staff guidance [e]
• Special operations weather [r]: Part of the U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command, this is an additional qualification for weather technicians, such that they can operate deep behind enemy lines, plan the weather aspects of military operations, and train others in basic weather skills [e]
• Strategic Air Command [r]: A former major headquarters of the United States Air Force, whose planning and contingency operations are now part of United States Strategic Command, while its aircraft readiness is under Air Combat Command and its missile readiness under Air Force Space Command [e]
• Strategic bombing [r]: Strategic strike attacks against the homeland military forces, population and industry of a nation, conducted by manned bomber aircraft [e]
• Suppression of enemy air defense [r]: Military actions taken to reduce the effectiveness, or destroy, the radars, radio and other communications links, surface-to-air missiles, anti-aircraft artillery, fighter aircraft and their airbases and command posts of air defense systems [e]
• Tactical Mobility Requirements Board [r]: Under the authority of the Secretary of Defense, the evaluation and field tests of large-scale airmobile operations, which led to an increased role for Army aviation, and deployment of an air assault division into the Vietnam War [e]
• The Two Vietnams after Geneva [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Twelfth Air Force [r]: United States Air Force intermediate command responsible for Air Combat Command fighter and bomber aircraft in the western United States, and is also the Air Component for the Unified Combatant Command, United States Southern Command [e]
• U-2 Dragon Lady [r]: A high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft that remains a key U.S. intelligence collection platform. [e]
• U.S. Department of Defense [r]: The military forces of the United States and their supporting civil servants. [e]
• U.S. Navy [r]: The branch of the United States Armed Forces charged with sea operations [e]
• Ultraviolet [r]: The part of the electromagnetic spectrum between the visible light and X-ray regions [e]
• Unified Combatant Command [r]: Operational line-of-commands for United States military groups. [e]
• United Arab Emirates [r]: Federation of the seven arabian states Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai, Fujeirah, Ras al-Khaimah, Sharjah, and Umm al-Quwain. [e]
• United States Army Air Force [r]: Substantially autonomous air arm of the United States Army prior to creation of the independent United States Air Force [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]
• United States Southern Command [r]: U.S. Unified Combatant Command responsible for military operations in the Caribbean, Central America, and South America [e]
• United States Strategic Command [r]: The U.S. unified headquarters for the missions of worldwide nuclear and conventional precision strike; command, control, communications, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance in support of strategic operations; global network operations of the Global Information Grid, information operations, ballistic missile defense, and reduction of Weapons of Mass Destruction threats [e]
• United States intelligence community [r]: The United States' intelligence agencies coordinated by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. [e]
• Vietnam War military technology [r]: Military technology in support of ground operations, including helicopters and air assault, either associated with or introduced in Vietnam, between 1962 and 1975 [e]
• Wake Island [r]: An atoll in the Pacific Ocean, under U.S. jurisdiction, with no native population; it was the site of a base in the Second World War and has been used as a refueling and emergency airfield, as well as a support facility for missile testing [e]
• Wars of Vietnam [r]: The broad context of warfare in the modern area of Vietnam, of which the Vietnam War (1962-1975) is best known, but involves colonization, Japanese occupation, decolonization, and post-1975 but related warfare among Vietnam, Cambodia and China [e]
• World War II, air war [r]: Air operations in the Second World War [e]