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- AAR-57 [r]: Mounted on aircraft, the system detects the ultraviolet energy emissions of missile threats [e]
- AC-47 [r]: A cargo aircraft, with a battery of high-volume automatic weapons, for ground bombardment. [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]
- AN- [r]: U.S. military nomenclature for electronic equipment, following the Joint Electronics Type Designation System [e]
- APG-63 [r]: A radar system for F-15 Eagle and, in its fourth version, F-15E Strike Eagle fighters [e]
- APG-70 [r]: An evolutionary branch, which added ground mapping as well as air-to-air tracking & fire control, of the AN/APG-63 radar of the F-15 Eagle air superiority fighter. It was introduced for the F-15E Strike Eagle fighter-bomber variant, and its function will reconverge into the AN/APG-63 series as V(4). [e]
- APQ-180 [r]: A derivative of the AN/APG-70 ground mapping radar introduced for the F-15E Strike Eagle, built into the slower AC-130 attack aircraft [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]
- Afghanistan War (2001-) [r]: Beginning on October 7, 2001, in response to the 9-11 attacks, military operations against the Taliban and al-Qaeda by United States and NATO forces [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 warfare planning [r]: The set of doctrines and procedures for carrying out all types of air warfare, as an integrated whole [e]
- Autocannon [r]: A magazine-fed cannon that will load and fire continuously until its magazine is empty. [e]
- C-130 Hercules [r]: An extremely successful (in production for over 50 years) medium-range military transport aircraft with an extremely wide range of variants, including tanker, special operations and C3I-ISR, and ski-equipped LC-130. [e]
- Direct action (military) [r]: Military attacks, usually by special operations forces on land, against specific, well-defined targets, often behind enemy lines. [e]
- Infrared countermeasures [r]: Equipment and flying techniques that can break the lock of a heat-seeking missile on a target aircraft. [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]
- Machine gun [r]: A firearm capable not only of full-automatic fire, but with additional features, such as large ammunition supply mechanisms, barrel cooling or quick-change features, etc., that lets it fire for prolonged periods [e]
- Radiofrequency MASINT [r]: Collection and processing of intelligence information derived from unintentional electromagnetic radiation from targets of interest [e]
- South Vietnam's ground war, 1972-1975 [r]: That period during which South Vietnam fought North Vietnam without the assistance of U.S. ground troops [e]
- Special reconnaissance [r]: Also known as SR, missions deep in denied areas, conducted by special operations personnel. They may be in or out of uniform. While SR units may direct air, missile, or artillery strikes, they strive to stay undetected. [e]
- Taliban [r]: Salafist Islamic militia, governing Afghanistan 1996–2001; still fighting in Pakistan and Afghanistan. [e]
- United States Air Force [r]: One of the uniformed services of the United States, with principal responsibility for land-based long-range and high-performance aircraft, as well as land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles [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]
