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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]
- 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]
- Close air support [r]: Weapons delivered, by aircraft, in close proximity to friendly forces that are in contact with enemy forces; direct support of ground combat requiring extreme care to avoid fratricide [e]
- FIM-92 Stinger [r]: A second-generation United States Army surface-to-air missile that can be fired from a soldier's shoulder, from vehicle-mounted launchers, and, in an air-to-air missile configuration, from attack helicopters. Uses combined infrared-ultraviolet guidance to resist countermeasures. [e]
- FROGFOOT [r]: NATO designation for Russian Su-25 close air support fixed-wing aircraft [e]
- Flare (electronic warfare) [r]: An expendable electronic warfare decoy form of infrared countermeasures [e]
- Il-2 Shturmovik [r]: The first successful heavily armored, heavily gunned close air support aircraft, optimized for anti-tank warfare, and the archetype for a long series of attack aircraft with similar missions [e]
- Laser designator [r]: A device that puts a distinctive, usually invisible, pattern of laser energy on an object, for purposes such as designating the target of a laser-guided bomb. [e]
- Sirena [r]: An early series of Soviet and Russian radar warning receivers [e]
- Vympel R-27 (missile) [r]: Russian air-to-air missile in continued development, principally a medium- to long-range beyond-visual-range weapon [e]
- Vympel R-60 (missile) [r]: A short-range air-to-air missile (NATO: AA-8 APHID) with infrared guidance [e]
- Vympel R-73 (missile) [r]: A fourth-generation Russian air-to-air missile, with infrared guidance intended for dogfighting. [e]
