SOAR: A Black Ops Novel - читать бесплатно онлайн полную версию книги автора John Weisman (ч. notes)

Примечания

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Military acronym for temporary duty.

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Unmanned Aerial Vehicle. A pilotless drone surveillance aircraft.

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Non-Official Cover intelligence officers.

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Directorate of Operations, the CIA’s clandestine spy service.

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All China runs officially on Beijing time. But most of the provinces operate on their own local schedules, which reflect their geographic position vis-à-vis Universal (Greenwich Mean) Time. Xinjiang’s “unofficial” clocks run two hours behind Beijing’s.

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Standard Operating Procedure.

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RUMor INTelligence is military slang for “urinal gossip.”

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Commander CENTral Command.

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Security level above top secret known as SCI, or Sensitive Compartmented Information, which requires code-word clearance.

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Ram Air Parachute Systems.

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Assault boots specially designed by Adidas for Grenzchutzgruppe 9, Germany’s primary counterterrorist unit.

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Handheld multiband inter/intra team radios.

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Fast Onboard Recognition of Transient Atomic Experiments.

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Night-Vision.

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Net-Centric warfare makes real-time data and information available on demand across the entire battlefield spectrum, both horizontally and vertically.

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Aurora is the stealth-technology successor to the SR-71 “Blackbird” spy plane. It was first flown tactically over Afghanistan. Its existence has not yet been disclosed.