- 行业: Government; Military
- Number of terms: 79318
- Number of blossaries: 0
- Company Profile:
Air Force component of the United States Transportation Command. Provides airlift, air refueling, special air missions, and aeromedical evacuation for U.S. forces. Supplies forces to theater commands to support wartime tasking.
Industry:Military
Ballistic missile with a range in excess of 600 kilometers installed in an aircraft or on its external mountings for the purpose of being launched from an aircraft.
Industry:Military
Doubts concerning some facet of information critical to the determination of compliance or non-compliance with a treaty or agreement revealed during an on-site inspection. Requires clarification by the inspected State Party.
Industry:Military
Bilateral treaty signed by the United States and the Soviet Union May 26, 1972; entered into force October 3, 1972. Both Parties agreed to limit qualitative improvement of their anti ballistic missile (ABM) technology and to have only two ABM deployment areas. Both nations later signed a Protocol to the Treaty, reducing the number of ABM deployment areas from two to one; the Protocol entered into force in 1976. The United States formally notified Russia December 13, 2001, of its decision to withdraw; this decision took effect June 13, 2002.
Industry:Military
Under an arms control agreement, the devices, instruments, administrative supplies, and recording material necessary for the performance of the inspection team’s duties, as approved by the States Parties. The United States will certify/inspect this equipment for use at U.S. facilities.
Industry:Military
Operational area defined by the joint force commander for land and naval forces. Typically does not encompass the entire operational area of the joint force commander, but should be large enough for component commanders to accomplish their missions and protect their forces.
Industry:Military
As defined in the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE), a self-propelled vehicle with armored protection and cross-country capability. Includes armored personnel carriers, armored infantry fighting vehicles, and heavy armament combat vehicles. Treaty-limited piece of equipment under the CFE Treaty.
Industry:Military
As defined in the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe, an armored combat vehicle designed and equipped primarily to transport a combat infantry squad, which normally provides the capability for the troops to deliver fire from inside the vehicle under armored protection and which is armed with an integral or organic cannon of at least 20 millimeters caliber and sometimes an antitank missile launcher.
Industry:Military
As defined in the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe, an armored vehicle based on the same chassis as, and externally similar to, an armored infantry fighting vehicle, which does not have a cannon or gun of 20 millimeters caliber or greater and which has been constructed or modified in such a way as not to permit the transportation of a combat infantry squad.
Industry:Military
As defined in the Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty, an armored combat vehicle designed and equipped to transport a combat infantry squad and which, as a rule, is armed with an integral or organic weapon of less than 20 millimeters caliber. Treaty-limited piece of equipment under the CFE Treaty.
Industry:Military
