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- 155mm howitzer [r]: Implemented in self-propelled or lightweight towed versions, this howitzer size, with slight variations in caliber, is the world's most common medium artillery type [e]
- 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-47 [r]: A threat detector for aircraft; all versions detect the heat of oncoming missiles; modified versions also detect laser designator beams [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]
- AH-1 Cobra [r]: The first purpose-built U.S. attack helicopter, introduced by the U.S. Army in the Vietnam War; the U.S. Marine Corps still operates a much-modified version [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]
- ALQ-213 [r]: A Danish Air Force-designed electronics countermeasures suite controller used on aircraft of many countries [e]
- AN- [r]: U.S. military nomenclature for electronic equipment, following the Joint Electronics Type Designation System [e]
- APR-39 [r]: A radar warning receiver and electronics countermeasures suite controller that provides coverage for C/D and E through J band CW radar, used on helicopters and slow fixed-wing aircraft [e]
- ASQ-228 [r]: The first electro-optical pod, for air-to-air and air-to-ground targeting as well as navigation, which operates in the medium-wave infrared spectrum [e]
- AVR-2 [r]: A first-and-second generation, obsolescent laser warning receiver [e]
- Air assault [r]: Military operations in which infantry are carried by aircraft onto, or very near, the target, or by parachuting. The aircraft may be helicopters, tilt-rotor aircraft, short-landing transports, or, historically, gliders. [e]
- Antitank cluster submunition [r]: Individual weapons, released by a cluster munition, which only threaten armored fighting vehicles and will not be detonated by individuals. They may make immediate attacks, or create a temporary antitank minefield [e]
- Artillery [r]: Crew-served military devices for propelling payloads over distance [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]
- Brilliant Anti-Tank [r]: An unpowered but aerodynamically guided, gliding weapon, originally developed as a cluster submunition for the MGM-140 ATACMS missile, but has been repurposed as a weapon to be dropped from armed unmanned aerial vehicles [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]
- Controlling close support to ground forces [r]: A unified approach to deconflicting and controlling all forms of kinetic (i.e., physically destructive, such as artillery and close air support) and nonkinetic (e.g., electronic warfare) support to troops in contact with the enemy, when the proximity is close enough that there is a significant danger of fratricide or degrading troop capabilities (e.g., by interfering with their sensors) [e]
- Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons [r]: A treaty limiting the use not of weapons of mass destruction, but of types considered especially inhumane to individuals [e]
- Directed energy weapon [r]: Weapons that do not use explosive force or direct thermal effects to damage, but achieve their effects by means of non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation, acoustic energy or possibly charged particle beams [e]
- Electronic warfare [r]: A subset of information operations that deals with the use of electromagnetic or kinetic means to degrade an enemy's military electronics systems, to be able to operate one's own electronics in the face of enemy attacks, and to evade those attacks through protection or deception [e]
- Euromissile HOT [r]: European wire-guided anti-tank missile for vehicles and helicopters, similar to the U.S. BGM-71 TOW [e]
- Fire and forget [r]: A precision-guided munition that needs no guidance information from its launching platform once released [e]
- Flare (electronic warfare) [r]: An expendable electronic warfare decoy form of infrared countermeasures [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 observer [r]: An individual or team, specializing in artillery, who accompanies ground troops and directs indirect fire artillery in support of those ground troops [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]
- Future Combat Systems [r]: An architecture including a variety of military systems, including armored fighting vehicles, unmanned ground vehicles, artillery, precision guided munitions and unmanned aerial vehicles; an evolutionary step in the restructuring of the United States Army and tailored to the brigade combat team organizational structure [e]
- Go-onto-target [r]: A guidance paradigm in which the sensor follows a potentially moving target, rather than going to a set of predefined geographic coordinates [e]
- Guided bomb [r]: An unpowered, aircraft delivered weapon, which adjusts its course using aerodynamic control surfaces, and is controlled by a human operator or on-board autonomous guidance [e]
- Infantry [r]: Soldiers that directly confront the enemy, overcoming them with fire and maneuver while on foot or in specialized vehicles [e]
- Information operations [r]: The integrated employment of the core capabilities of electronic warfare, computer network operations, psychological operations, military deception, and operations security. [e]
- Joint Direct Action Munition [r]: An add-on guidance kit that converts a standard "dumb bomb" into a precision-guided munition [e]
- LITENING [r]: Electro-optical target acquisition and tracking pods, which mount aircraft wing pylons. [e]
- Laser rangefinder [r]: A device, analogous to radar but using light rather than radio waves, which measures the distance to an object of interest. [e]
- Laser warning receiver [r]: An electronics warfare component that detects the energy from a laser designator or laser rangefinder, warning the target to take defensive actions [e]
- MQ-8 Fire Scout [r]: A multipurpose unmanned aerial vehicle, in the form of a helicopter with relatively long endurance, whose functions include surveillance and communications relay [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]
- 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]
- Mast-mounted sensor [r]: A means of mounting various sensors, such as surveillance, weapons control and warning, on top of the driveshaft of a helicopter, placing the sensors above the rotor so only they need to be exposed by a helicopter hiding in ground terrain [e]
- Naval gunfire support [r]: naval gun, unguided rocket, and guided missile fire from ships, in direct support of ground forces; does not include close air support even if the aircraft fly from ships [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]
- 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]
- 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]
- Precision-guided munition [r]: A powered or unpowered weapon that adjusts its flight path to hit a specific target [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]
- Su-25 [r]: Heavily armed and armored Russian close air support aircraft, NATO designation FROGFOOT, similar to the U.S. A-10, and the descendant of the Second World War Il-2 Stormovik [e]
- Tactical land movement [r]: A set of techniques used by ground combat forces, which trade off efficiency and speed of movement, against security in the event of enemy contact [e]
- U.S. Navy [r]: The branch of the United States Armed Forces charged with sea operations [e]
