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| Anti-ballistic missile anti-ballistic missile (ABM) is a missile designed to counter ballistic missiles (a missile for missile defense). A ballistic missile is used to deliver nuclear, chemical, biological or conventional warheads in a ballistic flight trajectory. The term "anti-ballistic missile" describes any antimissile system designed to counter ballistic missiles. However the term is more commonly used for ABM systems designed to counter long range, nuclear-armed Intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). Anti-ballistic_missile | |
| AIM-120 AMRAAM The AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile, or AMRAAM (pronounced am-ram), is a modern Beyond Visual Range (BVR) air-to-air missile (AAM) capable of all weather day and night performance. It is also commonly known as the Slammer in USAF service. When an AMRAAM missile is being launched, NATO pilots use the brevity code Fox Three. AIM-120_AMRAAM | |
| C-17 Globemaster III C-17_Globemaster_III | |
| Earned value management Earned Value Management (EVM) is a project management technique for measuring project progress in an objective manner. EVM has the ability to combine measurements of scope, schedule, and cost in a single integrated system. When properly applied, EVM provides an early warning of performance problems. Additionally, EVM promises to improve the definition of project scope, prevent scope creep, communicate objective progress to stakeholders, and keep the project team focused on achieving progress. Earned_value_management | |
| Transport in Iraq Transport_in_Iraq | |
| Kuwaiti oil fires Kuwaiti oil fires were a result of the scorched earth policy of Iraqi military forces retreating from Kuwait in 1991 after conquering the country but being driven out by Coalition military forces (see Gulf War).The resulting fires burned out of control because of the dangers of sending in firefighting crews. Kuwaiti_oil_fires | |
| Nuclear proliferation Nuclear proliferation is a term now used to describe the spread of nuclear weapons, fissile material, and weapons-applicable nuclear technology and information, to nations which are not recognized as "Nuclear Weapon States" by the Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons, also known as the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty or NPT. Nuclear_proliferation | |
| Radon Radon () is a chemical element with symbol Rn and atomic number 86. Radon is a colorless, odorless, tasteless, naturally occurring, radioactive noble gas that is formed from the decay of radium. It is one of the heaviest substances that remains a gas under normal conditions and is considered to be a health hazard. Radon | |
| Skateboarding Skateboarding is the act of riding and performing tricks using a skateboard. A person who skateboards is most often referred to as a skateboarder, or just skater. Skateboarding | |
| Snake Snakes are elongate legless carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes that can be distinguished from legless lizards by their lack of eyelids and external ears. Like all squamates, snakes are ectothermic amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales. Snake | |
| Military of the Republic of China The Military of the Republic of China (commonly known as Taiwan) encompasses an army, a navy, an air force and a military police. It is a military establishment, which accounted for 16.8% of the central budget in the fiscal year of 2003. It is historically continuous with the Nationalist Army that retreated from mainland China to Taiwan with the Kuomintang (KMT) in 1949 due to the loss of the Chinese Civil War and mainland to the Communist Party of China. Military_of_the_Republic_of_China | |
| United States armed forces The United States armed forces are the overall unified military forces of the United States. The United States military was first formed by the second Continental Congress to defend the new nation against the British Empire in the American Revolutionary War. United_States_armed_forces | |
| Depleted uranium Depleted uranium (DU) is uranium primarily composed of the isotope uranium-238 (U-238). Natural uranium is about 99.27 percent U-238, 0.72 percent U-235, and 0.0055 percent U-234. U-235 is used for fission in nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons. Uranium is enriched in U-235 by separating the isotopes by mass. Depleted_uranium | |
| M1 Abrams The M1 Abrams is a main battle tank produced in the United States. The M1 is named after General Creighton Abrams, former Army Chief of Staff and Commander of US military forces in Vietnam from 1968 to 1972. It is a well armed, heavily armored, and highly mobile tank designed for modern armored ground warfare. M1_Abrams | |
| United States Secretary of Defense United States Secretary of Defense (SecDef) is the head of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), concerned with the armed services and military matters. This position roughly corresponds to Minister of defense in other countries. The role of the Secretary of Defense is to be the principal defense policy advisor to the President and is responsible for the formulation of general defense policy related to all matters of direct and primary concern to the DoD, and for the execution of approved policy. United_States_Secretary_of_Defense | |
| Biodefense Biodefense refers to short term, local, usually military measures to restore biosecurity to a given group of persons in a given area civilian terminology, it is a very robust biohazard response. It is technically possible to apply biodefense measures to protect animals or plants, but this is generally uneconomic. However, protection of water supplies and food supplies are often a critical part of biodefense. Various definitions of biosafety emerged in different professions to guarantee non-human health. Biodefense | |
| Non-governmental organization Non-governmental organization (NGO) is a term that has become widely accepted for referring to a legally constituted, non-governmental organization created by natural or legal persons with no participation or representation of any government. In the cases in which NGOs are funded totally or partially by governments, the NGO maintains its non-governmental status therefore it excludes government representatives from membership in the organization. Non-governmental_organization | |
| Gulf War Talk:Gulf_War | |
| Gulf War syndrome Persian Gulf War syndrome (GWS) or Persian Gulf War illness (GWI) is an illness reported by combat veterans of the 1991 Persian Gulf War typified by symptoms including immune system disorders and birth defects. It has not always been clear whether these symptoms were related to Gulf War service or the occurrence of illnesses in Gulf War veterans is higher than comparable populations. Gulf_War_syndrome | |
| Underwater archaeology Underwater archaeology is the study of past human life, behaviours and cultures using the physical remains found in salt or fresh water or buried beneath water-logged sediment. It is most often considered as a branch of maritime archaeology. Due to the difficulties of accessing underwater sites, the application of archaeology to underwater sites emerged from the skills and tools developed by salvagers, and underwater archaeology initially struggled to establish itself as proper archaeological research. Underwater_archaeology | |
| Stars and Stripes (newspaper) Stars and Stripes is an independent news source that operates from inside the United States Department of Defense but is editorially separate from it. The First Amendment protection which Stars and Stripes enjoys is safeguarded by Congress to whom an independent ombudsman, who serves the readers' interests regularly reports. Stars_and_Stripes_(newspaper) | |
| MIM-104 Patriot The MIM-104 Patriot is a surface-to-air missile (SAM) system, the primary of its kind used by the United States Army and several allied nations. It is manufactured by the Raytheon Company of the United States. The Patriot System replaced the Nike Hercules system as the U.S. MIM-104_Patriot | |
| Weapon of mass destruction A weapon of mass destruction (WMD) is a weapon that can kill large numbers of humans and/or cause great damage to man-made structures (e.g. buildings), natural structures (e.g. mountains), or the biosphere in general.The term is often used to cover several weapon types, including nuclear, biological, chemical (NBC) and radiological weapons. Additional terms used in a military context include atomic, biological, and chemical warfare (ABC) and chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) warfare. Weapon_of_mass_destruction | |
| Unmanned aerial vehicle An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), commonly referred to as a drone is a remotely piloted aircraft. UAVs come in two varietiescivilians. Unmanned_aerial_vehicle | |
| Public domain image resources Wikipedia:Public_domain_image_resources | |
| Decay product In nuclear physics, a decay product (also known as a daughter product, daughter isotope or daughter nuclide, but see following clarification Decay_product | |
| Johnson County War Johnson County War, also known as the War on Powder River, was a range war which took place in April 1892 in Johnson County, Natrona County and Converse County in the U.S. state of Wyoming. It was a battle between small settling ranchers and larger established ranches in the Powder River Country that culminated in a lengthy shootout between local ranchers, a band of hired killers, and a sheriff's posse, eventually requiring the intervention of the U.S. Johnson_County_War | |
| USS Missouri (BB-63) USS_Missouri_(BB-63) | |
| Phalanx CIWS The Phalanx Close-In Weapon System (CIWS) is an anti-Anti-ship missile system that was designed and manufactured by the General Dynamics Corporation, Pomona Division. It is now manufactured by the Raytheon Company. It is used by the United States Navy on every class of surface combat ship and by the United States Coast Guard aboard its Hamilton and Legend class cutters. Phalanx_CIWS | |
| York County, Virginia York_County,_Virginia | |
| James City County, Virginia James_City_County,_Virginia | |
| Arlington County, Virginia Arlington County is a county of about 206,800 residents in the Commonwealth of Virginia. It is located directly across the Potomac River to the west of Washington, D.C. Formerly part of the District of Columbia, the land now composing the county was retroceded to Virginia on July 9, 1846, in an act of Congress that took effect in 1847. It was called Alexandria County from that date until March 16, 1920, when an act of the General Assembly changed its name to Arlington County. Arlington_County,_Virginia | |
| Catron County, New Mexico Catron_County,_New_Mexico | |
| Sniper Talk:Sniper | |
| 3-Quinuclidinyl benzilate "QNB" redirects here. For the spoof amateur radio Q code, see QNB (amateur radio).3-quinuclidinyl benzilate (QNB, BZ, EA-2277), full chemical name 1-azabicycloincapacitating agent. Its NATO code is BZ. The Iraqi incapacitating agent Agent 15 is believed either to be the same as or similar to BZ. 3-Quinuclidinyl_benzilate | |
| Tactical High Energy Laser Tactical_High_Energy_Laser | |
| Ambulance ambulance is a vehicle for transporting sick or injured people, to, from or between places of treatment for an illness or injury. The term ambulance is used to describe a vehicle used to bring medical care to patients outside of the hospital or to transport the patient to hospital for follow-up care and further testing. Ambulance | |
| Harold Washington Talk:Harold_Washington | |
| Medal of Honor Medal_of_Honor | |
| P-3 Orion P-3_Orion | |
| Ehud Barak Ehud Barak (, born Ehud Brog on 12 February 1942) is an Israeli politician, former Prime Minister, and current Minister of Defense, deputy prime minister and leader of Israel's Labor Party.Barak served as the 10th Prime Minister of Israel from 1999 to 2001. After losing the 2001 election, Barak embarked on a business career. On 12 June 2007 he completed a political comeback by winning the Labor Party leadership election. He was appointed as Minister of Defense, replacing outgoing party leader Amir Peretz. Ehud_Barak | |
| Radio-frequency identification Radio-frequency identification (RFID) is the use of an object (typically referred to as an RFID tag) applied to or incorporated into a product, animal, or person for the purpose of identification and tracking using radio waves. Some tags can be read from several meters away and beyond the line of sight of the reader.Most RFID tags contain at least two parts. Radio-frequency_identification | |
| Mefloquine Mefloquine is an orally-administered antimalarial drug used as a prophylaxis against and treatment for malaria. It also goes by the trade name Lariam (manufactured by F. Hoffmann–La Roche) and chemical name mefloquine hydrochloride (formulated with HCl). Mefloquine was developed in the 1970s at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in the U.S. as a synthetic analogue of quinine. Mefloquine | |
| USS Enterprise (CVN-65) USS_Enterprise_(CVN-65) | |
| Arleigh Burke class destroyer Arleigh_Burke_class_destroyer | |
| USS Reuben James (FFG-57) USS_Reuben_James_(FFG-57) | |
| Lion of Babylon tank The Lion of Babylon tank or Asad Babil (Arabic:Iraqi-built version of the Soviet T-72 MBT (main battle tank), assembled in a factory established in the 1980s near Taji, north of Baghdad.This project represented the most ambitious attempt by Saddam Hussein's Regime to develop an indigenous tank production, triggered in part when some Western governments imposed an embargo in order to force a negotiated end to the Iran-Iraq war. Lion_of_Babylon_tank | |
| Convair 880 Convair_880 | |
| GBU-27 Paveway III GBU-27_Paveway_III | |
| United States casualties of war casualties suffered by the United States of America in war or deployments United_States_casualties_of_war |
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