Modes and codes—settings for different aircraft identification transponder radios

MTI—Moving Target Indication, a radar that tracks moving vehicles on the ground from a long distance

Netrusion—transmitting false data or programming into an enemy computer network via digital communications, datalinks, or sensors

NOFORN—No Foreign; a security classification that restricts foreign nationals from acessing data

PAG—Congress for Freedom and Democracy, an alternate name of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party

PKK—Partiya Karkerên Kurdistan, Kurdistan Workers' Party, a Kurdish separatist organization seeking to form a separate nation from the ethnic Kurdish regions of Turkey, Iran, Syria, and Iraq; recognized as a terrorist organization by several nations and organizations

ROE—Rules of Engagement, the procedures and limitations for a combat operation

SAM—Surface-to-Air Missile

SEAD—Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses, using jammers and weapons to destroy an enemy air defense weapon, radar, or command and control facilities

triple-A—antiaircraft artillery

WEAPONS

AGM-177 Wolverine—air-or ground-launched autonomous attack cruise missile

CBU-87 Combined Effects Munition—an air-dropped weapon that releases antipersonnel and antivehicle mines over a wide area

CBU-97 Sensor-Fuzed Weapon—an air-dropped weapon that can detect and destroy numerous armored vehicles at one time over a wide area

CID—Cybernetic Infantry Device, a manned robot with enhanced strength, armor, sensors, and combat capabilities

Cobra gunship—U.S. Army second-generation weaponized light helicopter

CV-22 Osprey—a medium transport aircraft that can take off and land like a helicopter but can then swivel its rotors and fly like a fixed-wing aircraft

JDAM—Joint Direct Attack Munition, a bolt-on kit for gravity bombs that give them near-precision accuracy using Global Positioning System navigation information

KC-135R—latest model of the Boeing 707 family of aerial refueling tanker aircraft

Kiowa—light helicopter that carries advanced sensors used to spot targets for helicopter gunships

MIM-104 Patriot—American-made ground-based antiaircraft missile system

SA-14—second generation Russian-made shoulder-fired antiaircraft missile

SA-7—first generation Russian-made shoulder-fired antiaircraft missile

Slingshot—high-powered laser defensive system for aircraft

Stryker—an eight-wheeled multirole armored personnel carrier of the U.S. Army

Tin Man—a soldier outfitted with advanced body armor, sensors, and strength augmentation systems to increase his combat capabilities

XC-57 “Loser”—a flying-wing aircraft originally designed for the U.S. Air Force’s Next Generation Bomber, but converted to a multimission transport aircraft when the design lost the contract competition

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