Eagle Station

Glossary: Weapons and Acronyms

1MC — U.S. Navy shipboard internal communications system

ALQ-293—SPEAR electronic combat system

Angara-A5—Russian medium-lift rocket

AN/SPY-1—phased-array radar system aboard guided missile vessels

BDU-33—practice bombs

Chenaya Osa—Black Wasp, a Russian anti-satellite weapon

CIC–Combat Information Center

CID — Cybernetic Infantry Device, a manned combat robot

Chang’e-10, -11, -12, and -13—manned lunar lander spacecraft built by the People’s Republic of China, similar in basis design to the Apollo Lunar Module

CLAD — Cybernetic Lunar Activity Device, a variation of a CID used for construction work on the moon

COMS — Cybernetic Orbital Maneuvering Systems, a variation of a CID made for orbital construction work

DF-26—Dong Feng-26, a Chinese long-range anti-ship missile

DTF — Digital Terrain Following, a system for flying at very low altitudes and high airspeed without using radar

Eagle Station — a captured Russian military space station in Earth orbit

EEAS — Electronic Elastomeric Activity Suit, a space suit that uses compressible fabric instead of oxygen for pressurization

Energia-5VR — a Russian heavy rocket

EVA — Extra Vehicular Activity, a space walk

FONOP — Freedom of Navigation Operation

Harbin Z-20—PRC medium-lift helicopter

HJ-12—Hóng Jiàn-12, modern, man-portable Chinese anti-tank guided missile

HUD — Head-Up Display

ICBM — Intercontinental Ballistic Missile

IFF — Identification Friend or Foe, coded aircraft identification sysem

IRBM — Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile

JY-9—a Chinese missile guidance radar

Ka-52 Alligator — Russian helicopter gunship

KC-767—an American aerial refueling aircraft

KLVM—Kiberneticheskaya Lunnaya Voyennaya Mashina, Cybernetic Lunar War Machine, a manned Russian combat robot

LEAF — Life Enhancing Assistive Facility, a wearable life-support system

lidar — an imaging system using lasers

LM — Lunar Module

Long March-8, -9—Chinese heavy rockets

LPDRS — Laser Pulse Detonation Rocket System, a hybrid turbojet-scramjet-rocket propulsion engine

Mă Luó—a large automated cargo lander spacecraft built by the People’s Republic of China, a derivative of Blue Origin’s Blue Moon cargo lander

Mars One — a Russian combat space station

MFD — multifunction display

Mi-8MTV-5—Russian medium transport helicopter

MiG-31—Russian supersonic jet fighter

MQ-55 Coyote — combat unmanned aircraft

MQ-77 Ghost Wolf — advanced combat unmanned aircraft

Okno — Russian space surveillance system

Oort Cloud — a shell of trillions of ice comets surrounding the solar system

PRC — People’s Republic of China

Queqiao—Magpie Bridge, Chinese communications sattelite

regolith — loose soil or debris covering bedrock

Roscosmos — Russian space agency

RTG — radioisotope thermoelectric generator, a small nuclear power generator

S-29 Shadow — American single-stage-to-orbit spaceplane

SAM — surface-to-air missile

SBIRS — Space Based Infrared Surveillance, American missile launch detection satellite system

SH-60 Sea Hawk — American carrier-based helicopter

Shenyang J-15—advanced Chinese jet fighter

SM-2—American naval antiaircraft missile system

SPEAR — Self-Protection Electronic Agile Reaction, American advanced electronic warfare system

taikonaut — Chinese astronaut

toroids — a circular object with a hole in the center

Type 052C–Chinese guided missile destroyer

Type 366—Chinese surveillance radar

UAV — unmanned aerial vehicle, a drone

XCV-62 Ranger, XCV-70 Rustler — American stealthy short takeoff/vertical landing tactical transport aircraft

Xeus lander — a prototype lunar lander designed conceived by Masten Space Systems and the United Launch Alliance. Subsequently purchased and modified by Sky Masters Aerospace Inc.

YJ-62—Chinese anti-ship cruise missile