WEAPONS AND AIRCRAFT

ADM-160—Medium-Range Air-Launched Decoy (MALD), a heavy aircraft defensive cruise missile

AGM-154A—Joint Standoff Weapon (JSOW), GPS-inertial navigation guided glide weapon

AGM-158—Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile, advanced long-range precision strike weapon

AGM-88 HARM—High-Speed Anti-Radiation Missile, air-launched antiradar missile

ALQ-293 SPEAR—Self-Protection Electronically Agile Reaction, an integrated aircraft defense suite

AN/APG-81—advanced air-to-air and air-to-ground aircraft radar

AWACS—Airborne Warning and Control System, an airborne radar that can detect aircraft from hundreds of miles and vector interceptor aircraft

Beriev-100—Russian AWACS aircraft

BLU-97B—Combined Effects Munition antipersonnel mine

BTR-80—Russian armored personnel carrier

CID—Cybernetic Infantry Device, an advanced manned combat robot

CLAM SHELL—Russian antiaircraft radar

DTF—Digital Terrain Following, using a global terrain and obstacle database for extreme low-level flying

F-22 Raptor—U.S. Air Force air superiority fighter aircraft

F-35 Lightning II—U.S. medium bomber and attack aircraft HEMI, 520

HUD—Heads-Up Display, an electronic device that presents important flight data in front of a pilot

IRSTS—Infrared Search and Track System, a sensor that detects heat and can feed targeting data to a computer

KAB-500L—Russian laser-guided bomb

M320—forty-millimeter grenade launcher

MH-47—American heavy-lift helicopter

MiG-29—third-generation Russian air superiority fighter, used by a number of former Soviet countries

MQ-55 Coyote—advanced unmanned air weapon launch platform

MSBS Radom—Polish assault rifle

OSCE—Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, an intergovernmental organization promoting peace, security, and human rights

RDX—Research Department Explosive, a widely used military explosive

ROCC—Remote Operations Control Center, a location with many unmanned aircraft control stations

RPG-22—shoulder-fired antitank weapon

RQ-20 Vedette—small, stealthy unmanned airborne threat-warning aircraft

SNR-125—Russian air defense radar system

SPY-1 Aegis—American air defense radar system

Su-34—Russian modernized second-generation fighter-bomber

Su-50—Russian fifth-generation multirole stealthy fighter

Sukhoi-30—Russian fourth-generation multirole fighter

Sukhoi-35—Russian advanced air superiority fighter

T-72—Soviet second-generation main battle tank, widely exported around the world

T-80—third-generation Soviet main battle tank, widely exported

XV-40—unmanned tilt-rotor aircraft used for covert, rapid supply and insertion

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