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Parent topics
- Ballistic missile defense [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Integrated air defense system [r]: An air defense that combines radar, anti-aircraft artillery, surface-to-air missiles, and fighter aircraft, presenting multiple layers of defense under systematic command and control [e]
- United States Northern Command [r]: Within the Department of Defense, the military headquarters responsible for defense of the continental United States, and support to civil authorities for disasters beyond their capabilities [e]
Subtopics
- Canadian Forces Base Manitoba [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Peterson Air Force Base [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Tyndall Air Force Base [r]: Add brief definition or description
- 9-11 Attack [r]: A massive terrorist attack on the United States, occurring on September 11, 2001. [e]
- AIM-9 Sidewinder [r]: Add brief definition or description
- AIM-120 AMRAAM [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Cold War [r]: Geostrategic, economic and ideological struggle from about 1947 to 1991 between the Soviet Union and the United States and their allies. [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]
- Elmendorf Air Force Base [r]: Add brief definition or description
- 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]
- F-15 Eagle [r]: Add brief definition or description
- F-16 Fighting Falcon [r]: Add brief definition or description
- F-18 Hornet [r]: Add brief definition or description
- 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]
- SCATANA [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Transponder [r]: A device, used in navigation, air traffic control, Safety of Life at Sea, and military operations (e.g., Identification-friend-or-foe which, when interrogated by an appropriate radio or radar signal, replies with its identification and other relevant navigation data [e]
- Transport Canada [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Tu-95 [r]: With the NATO code name BEAR, a swept-wing turboprop strategic bomber, with many cruise missile carrier, reconnaisance, and tanker variants still in service, including the Tu-142 maritime patrol aircraft [e]