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1. 406 relations: Aérospatiale Gazelle, ABC News (United States), Abqaiq–Khurais attack, Action of June 5, 1984, Active electronically scanned array, ADM-160 MALD, Aerial refueling, Afterburner, AIM-120 AMRAAM, AIM-54 Phoenix, AIM-7 Sparrow, AIM-9 Sidewinder, Air brake (aeronautics), Air Combat Command, Air Force Armament Museum, Air Force Flight Test Museum, Air Force Materiel Command, Air Heritage Aviation Museum, Air interdiction, Air National Guard, Air superiority fighter, Aircraft canopy, Aircraft flight control system, Aircraft principal axes, Airframe, Airspeed, Al-Husayn (missile), Alaska, Alaska Aviation Museum, Alexandria, Virginia, Aluminium, AN/ALQ-135, AN/APG-63 radar family, Anchorage, Alaska, Animated series, Annapolis, Maryland, Anti-satellite weapon, Arizona, Armstrong Flight Research Center, Arnold Air Force Base, ASM-135 ASAT, Attack aircraft, Atwater, California, Aviation Week & Space Technology, Avionics, Axial compressor, Azimuth, BAE Systems, Barnes & Noble, Battleship Memorial Park, ... Expand index (356 more) » « Shrink index

2. 1970s United States fighter aircraft
3. Aircraft first flown in 1972
4. Fourth-generation jet fighter
5. McDonnell Douglas aircraft

Aérospatiale Gazelle

The Aérospatiale Gazelle (company designations SA 340, SA 341 and SA 342) is a five-seat helicopter developed and initially produced by the French aircraft company Sud Aviation, and later by Aérospatiale.

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ABC News (United States)

ABC News is the news division of the American television network ABC.

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Abqaiq–Khurais attack

On 14 September 2019, drones were used to attack oil processing facilities at Abqaiq (translit) and Khurais (خريص) in eastern Saudi Arabia.

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Action of June 5, 1984

On June 5, 1984, an air battle took place near Arabi Island in the Persian Gulf.

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Active electronically scanned array

An active electronically scanned array (AESA) is a type of phased array antenna, which is a computer-controlled antenna array in which the beam of radio waves can be electronically steered to point in different directions without moving the antenna.

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ADM-160 MALD

The ADM-160 MALD (Miniature Air-Launched Decoy) is an air-launched, expendable decoy missile developed by the United States.

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Aerial refueling

Aerial refueling, also referred to as air refueling, in-flight refueling (IFR), air-to-air refueling (AAR), and tanking, is the process of transferring aviation fuel from one aircraft (the tanker) to another (the receiver) while both aircraft are in flight.

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Afterburner

An afterburner (or reheat in British English) is an additional combustion component used on some jet engines, mostly those on military supersonic aircraft.

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AIM-120 AMRAAM

The AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile (AMRAAM) is an American beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile capable of all-weather day-and-night operations.

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AIM-54 Phoenix

The AIM-54 Phoenix is an American active radar-guided, beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile (AAM), carried in clusters of up to six missiles on the Grumman F-14 Tomcat, its only operational launch platform.

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AIM-7 Sparrow

The AIM-7 Sparrow (Air Intercept Missile) is an American medium-range semi-active radar homing air-to-air missile operated by the United States Air Force, United States Navy, United States Marine Corps, and various other air forces and navies.

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AIM-9 Sidewinder

The AIM-9 Sidewinder ("AIM" for "Air Intercept Missile") is a short-range air-to-air missile.

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Air brake (aeronautics)

In aeronautics, air brakes or speed brakes are a type of flight control surface used on an aircraft to increase the drag on the aircraft.

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Air Combat Command

The Air Combat Command (ACC) is one of nine Major Commands (MAJCOMs) in the United States Air Force, reporting to Headquarters, United States Air Force (HAF) at the Pentagon.

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Air Force Armament Museum

The Air Force Armament Museum is a military aviation museum adjacent to Eglin Air Force Base in Valparaiso, Florida, dedicated to the display of Air Force armament.

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Air Force Flight Test Museum

The Air Force Flight Test Museum is an aviation museum located at Edwards Air Force Base near Rosamond, California focused on the history of the Air Force Flight Test Center.

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Air Force Materiel Command

The Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) is a Major Command (MAJCOM) of the United States Air Force (USAF).

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Air Heritage Aviation Museum

Air Heritage Aviation Museum is an aviation museum and aircraft restoration facility in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania.

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Air interdiction

Air interdiction (AI), also known as deep air support (DAS), is the use of preventive tactical bombing and strafing by combat aircraft against enemy targets that are not an immediate threat, to delay, disrupt or hinder later enemy engagement of friendly forces.

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Air National Guard

The Air National Guard (ANG), also known as the Air Guard, is a federal military reserve force of the United States Air Force, as well as the air militia of each U.S. state, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the territories of Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

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Air superiority fighter

An air superiority fighter (also styled air-superiority fighter) is a fighter aircraft designed to seize control of enemy airspace by establishing tactical dominance (air superiority) over the opposing air force.

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Aircraft canopy

An aircraft canopy is the transparent enclosure over the cockpit of some types of aircraft.

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Aircraft flight control system

A conventional fixed-wing aircraft flight control system (AFCS) consists of flight control surfaces, the respective cockpit controls, connecting linkages, and the necessary operating mechanisms to control an aircraft's direction in flight.

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Aircraft principal axes

An aircraft in flight is free to rotate in three dimensions: yaw, nose left or right about an axis running up and down; pitch, nose up or down about an axis running from wing to wing; and roll, rotation about an axis running from nose to tail.

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Airframe

The mechanical structure of an aircraft is known as the airframe.

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Airspeed

In aviation, airspeed is the speed of an aircraft relative to the air it is flying through (which itself is usually moving relative to the ground due to wind).

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Al-Husayn (missile)

al-Husayn was a short-range ballistic missile developed in Ba'athist Iraq.

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Alaska

Alaska is a non-contiguous U.S. state on the northwest extremity of North America.

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Alaska Aviation Museum

The Alaska Aviation Museum, previously the Alaska Aviation Heritage Museum, is located on Lake Hood Seaplane Base in Anchorage, Alaska.

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Alexandria, Virginia

Alexandria is an independent city in the northern region of the Commonwealth of Virginia, United States.

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Aluminium

Aluminium (Aluminum in North American English) is a chemical element; it has symbol Al and atomic number 13.

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AN/ALQ-135

The AN/ALQ-135 is an electronic countermeasure (ECM) jamming system produced by Northrop Grumman for the Tactical Electronic Warfare Suite (TEWS) on F-15 Eagle and F-15E Strike Eagle aircraft.

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AN/APG-63 radar family

The AN/APG-63 and AN/APG-70 are a family of all-weather multimode radar systems designed by Hughes Aircraft (later Raytheon) for the F-15 Eagle air superiority fighter.

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Anchorage, Alaska

Anchorage, officially the Municipality of Anchorage, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Alaska.

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Animated series

An animated series is a set of animated television works with a common title, usually related to one another.

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Annapolis, Maryland

Annapolis is the capital of the U.S. state of Maryland.

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Anti-satellite weapon

Anti-satellite weapons (ASAT) are space weapons designed to incapacitate or destroy satellites for strategic or tactical purposes.

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Arizona

Arizona (Hoozdo Hahoodzo; Alĭ ṣonak) is a landlocked state in the Southwestern region of the United States.

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Armstrong Flight Research Center

The NASA Neil A. Armstrong Flight Research Center (AFRC) is an aeronautical research center operated by NASA.

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Arnold Air Force Base

Arnold Air Force Base (Arnold AFB) is a United States Air Force base located in Coffee and Franklin counties, Tennessee, adjacent to the city of Tullahoma.

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ASM-135 ASAT

The ASM-135 ASAT is an air-launched anti-satellite multistage missile that was developed by Ling-Temco-Vought's LTV Aerospace division.

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Attack aircraft

An attack aircraft, strike aircraft, or attack bomber is a tactical military aircraft that has a primary role of carrying out airstrikes with greater precision than bombers, and is prepared to encounter strong low-level air defenses while pressing the attack.

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Atwater, California

Atwater is a city on State Route 99 in Merced County, California, United States.

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Aviation Week & Space Technology

Aviation Week & Space Technology, often abbreviated Aviation Week or AW&ST, is the flagship magazine of the Aviation Week Network, a division of Informa.

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Avionics

Avionics (a blend of aviation and electronics) are the electronic systems used on aircraft.

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Axial compressor

An axial compressor is a gas compressor that can continuously pressurize gases.

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Azimuth

An azimuth (from the directions) is the horizontal angle from a cardinal direction, most commonly north, in a local or observer-centric spherical coordinate system.

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BAE Systems

BAE Systems plc is a British multinational aerospace, defence and information security company, based in London, England.

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Barnes & Noble

Barnes & Noble Booksellers is an American bookseller with the largest number of retail outlets in the United States.

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Battleship Memorial Park

Battleship Memorial Park is a military history park and museum on the western shore of Mobile Bay in Mobile, Alabama.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.

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Beaver County Airport

Beaver County Airport or is a county-owned public airport three miles northwest of Beaver Falls, in Beaver County, Pennsylvania.

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Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania

Beaver Falls is a city in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Ben Macdui

Ben Macdui (Beinn MacDuibh, meaning "MacDuff's mountain") is the second-highest mountain in Scotland and all of the British Isles, after Ben Nevis, and the highest of the Cairngorm Mountains.

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Berkley Books

Berkley Books is now an imprint of the Penguin Group.

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Beyond-visual-range missile

A beyond-visual-range missile is an air-to-air missile that is capable of engaging at ranges of or beyond.

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Bitburg Airport

Bitburg Airport (Flugplatz Bitburg) is a commercial airport serving Bitburg, a city in the Rhineland-Palatinate state of Germany.

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Boeing

The Boeing Company (or simply Boeing) is an American multinational corporation that designs, manufactures, and sells airplanes, rotorcraft, rockets, satellites, and missiles worldwide.

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Boeing Defense, Space & Security

Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS) is a division of The Boeing Company based in Arlington, Virginia, near Washington, D.C. The division builds military airplanes, rotorcraft, and missiles, as well as space systems for both commercial and military customers, including satellites, spacecraft, and rockets.

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Boeing F-15EX Eagle II

The Boeing F-15EX Eagle II is an American all-weather multirole strike fighter derived from the McDonnell Douglas F-15E Strike Eagle. McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle and Boeing F-15EX Eagle II are Boeing military aircraft, fourth-generation jet fighter, twin-tail aircraft and twinjets.

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Boron

Boron is a chemical element; it has symbol B and atomic number 5.

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Bruce K. Holloway

General Bruce Keener Holloway (September 1, 1912 – September 30, 1999) was a United States Air Force general.

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Cairngorms

The Cairngorms (Am Monadh Ruadh) are a mountain range in the eastern Highlands of Scotland closely associated with the mountain Cairn Gorm.

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California

California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.

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Callaway, Florida

Callaway is a city in Bay County, Florida, United States, and is a suburb of Panama City.

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Camp Douglas, Wisconsin

Camp Douglas is a village in Juneau County, Wisconsin, United States.

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Canadian Armed Forces

The Canadian Armed Forces (CAF; Forces armées canadiennes, FAC) are the unified military forces of Canada, including land, sea, and air commands referred to as the Canadian Army, Royal Canadian Navy, and the Royal Canadian Air Force.

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Canard (aeronautics)

In aeronautics, a canard is a wing configuration in which a small forewing or foreplane is placed forward of the main wing of a fixed-wing aircraft or a weapon.

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Cantilever

A cantilever is a rigid structural element that extends horizontally and is unsupported at one end.

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Cape Cod

Cape Cod is a peninsula extending into the Atlantic Ocean from the southeastern corner of Massachusetts, in the northeastern United States.

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Caseless ammunition

Caseless ammunition (CL), or caseless cartridge, is a configuration of weapon-cartridge that eliminates the cartridge case that typically holds the primer, propellant and projectile together as a unit.

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Castle Air Museum

Castle Air Museum is a military aviation museum located in Atwater, California, United States adjacent to Castle Airport, a former United States Air Force Strategic Air Command base which was closed in 1995, after the end of the Cold War.

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Cathode-ray tube

A cathode-ray tube (CRT) is a vacuum tube containing one or more electron guns, which emit electron beams that are manipulated to display images on a phosphorescent screen.

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Chaff (countermeasure)

Chaff, originally called Window or Düppel, is a radar countermeasure involving the dispersal of thin strips of aluminium, metallized glass fiber, or plastic.

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Charles M. Schulz–Sonoma County Airport

Charles M. Schulz–Sonoma County Airport is a domestic airport located northwest of downtown Santa Rosa, California, in Sonoma County, California, United States.

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Chico Air Museum

The Chico Air Museum is a nonprofit aviation museum located at the Chico Municipal Airport in Chico, California.

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Chico, California

Chico (Spanish for "little") is the most populous city in Butte County, California, United States.

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Chino, California

Chino (Spanish for "Curly") is a city in the western end of San Bernardino County, California, United States, with Los Angeles County to its west and Orange County to its south in the Southern California region.

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Close air support

In military tactics, close air support (CAS) is defined as aerial warfare actions—often air-to-ground actions such as strafes or airstrikes—by military aircraft against hostile targets in close proximity to friendly forces.

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Clutter (radar)

Clutter is the unwanted return (echoes) in electronic systems, particularly in reference to radars.

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Cockpit

A cockpit or flight deck is the area, on the front part of an aircraft or spacecraft, from which a pilot controls the aircraft.

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Colorado

Colorado (other variants) is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.

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Composite material

A composite material (also called a composition material or shortened to composite, which is the common name) is a material which is produced from two or more constituent materials.

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Computer

A computer is a machine that can be programmed to automatically carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical operations (computation).

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Conformal fuel tank

Conformal fuel tanks (CFTs) are additional fuel tanks fitted closely to the profile of an aircraft that extend the endurance of the aircraft.

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Counterinsurgency

Counterinsurgency (COIN, or NATO spelling counter-insurgency) is "the totality of actions aimed at defeating irregular forces".

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Crater Lake–Klamath Regional Airport

Crater Lake–Klamath Regional Airport (Klamath Falls Airport) is a public use airport in Klamath County, Oregon, United States, five miles southeast of Klamath Falls, which owns it.

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Dassault Mirage F1

The Dassault Mirage F1 is a French fighter and attack aircraft designed and manufactured by Dassault Aviation.

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Day fighter

A day fighter is a fighter aircraft equipped only to fight during the day.

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Dayton, Ohio

Dayton is a city in Montgomery and Greene counties and the county seat of Montgomery County, Ohio, United States.

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De Laval nozzle

A de Laval nozzle (or convergent-divergent nozzle, CD nozzle or con-di nozzle) is a tube which is pinched in the middle, making a carefully balanced, asymmetric hourglass shape.

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DeBary, Florida

DeBary is a city in Volusia County, Florida, United States, on the eastern shore of the St. Johns River near Lake Monroe.

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Delta wing

A delta wing is a wing shaped in the form of a triangle.

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Dogfight

A dogfight, or dog fight, is an aerial battle between fighter aircraft conducted at close range.

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Douglas A-4 Skyhawk

The Douglas A-4 Skyhawk is a single-seat subsonic carrier-capable light attack aircraft designed and produced by the American aerospace manufacturer Douglas Aircraft Company, and later, McDonnell Douglas.

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Drag (physics)

In fluid dynamics, drag, sometimes referred to as fluid resistance, is a force acting opposite to the relative motion of any object, moving with respect to a surrounding fluid.

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Drop tank

In aviation, a drop tank (external tank, wing tank or belly tank) is used to describe auxiliary fuel tanks externally carried by aircraft.

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Duxford

Duxford is a village in Cambridgeshire, England, about south of Cambridge.

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Dyess Air Force Base

Dyess Air Force Base (AFB) is a United States Air Force (USAF) base located about southwest of downtown Abilene, Texas, and west of Fort Worth, Texas.

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Edwards Air Force Base

Edwards Air Force Base (AFB) is a United States Air Force installation in California.

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EG&G

EG&G, formally known as Edgerton, Germeshausen, and Grier, Inc., was a United States national defense contractor and provider of management and technical services.

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Eglin Air Force Base

Eglin Air Force Base is a United States Air Force (USAF) base in the western Florida Panhandle, located about southwest of Valparaiso in Okaloosa County.

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Electronic countermeasure

An electronic countermeasure (ECM) is an electrical or electronic device designed to trick or deceive radar, sonar, or other detection systems, like infrared (IR) or lasers.

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Electronic warfare

Electromagnetic warfare or electronic warfare (EW) is warfare involving the use of the electromagnetic spectrum (EM spectrum) or directed energy to control the spectrum, attack an enemy, or impede enemy operations.

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Elmendorf Air Force Base

Elmendorf Air Force Base is a United States Air Force (USAF) facility in Anchorage, Alaska.

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Elmira Corning Regional Airport

Elmira Corning Regional Airport is in Chemung County, New York, seven miles northwest of Elmira and eight miles east of Corning.

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Empennage

The empennage, also known as the tail or tail assembly, is a structure at the rear of an aircraft that provides stability during flight, in a way similar to the feathers on an arrow.

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Energy–maneuverability theory

Energy–maneuverability theory is a model of aircraft performance.

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Enhanced Tactical Fighter

The Enhanced Tactical Fighter (ETF) was a strike fighter/interdictor program conducted by the United States Air Force (USAF) between 1980 and 1984, to seek replacements for the General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark.

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Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum

The Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum is an independent, 501(c)(3) non-profit, aviation museum in McMinnville, Oregon.

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Exercise Red Flag

Exercise Red Flag (also Red Flag – Nellis) is a two-week advanced aerial combat training exercise held several times a year by the United States Air Force (USAF).

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Fairchild Aircraft

Fairchild was an American aircraft and aerospace manufacturing company based at various times in Farmingdale, New York; Hagerstown, Maryland; and San Antonio, Texas.

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Fighter aircraft

Fighter aircraft (early on also pursuit aircraft) are military aircraft designed primarily for air-to-air combat.

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Fighter Mafia

The Fighter Mafia was a controversial group of United States Air Force officers and civilian defense analysts who, in the 1960s and 1970s, advocated for fighter design criteria in opposition to those of the design boards of the time, and the use of John Boyd and Thomas P. Christie's energy-maneuverability (E-M) theory in designing fighter aircraft.

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Fighter Pilot: Operation Red Flag

Fighter Pilot: Operation Red Flag is an IMAX film centered on the experiences of a USAF F-15 Eagle fighter pilot, then-Captain John Stratton, who wants to be professionally successful as a fighter pilot.

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Fighter Wing: A Guided Tour of an Air Force Combat Wing

Fighter Wing: A Guided Tour of an Air Force Combat Wing (1995) is a nonfiction book written by Tom Clancy and John D. Gresham which explores the inner workings of the United States Air Force's 366th Fighter Wing based out of Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho.

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Flare (countermeasure)

A flare or decoy flare is an aerial infrared countermeasure used by an aircraft to counter an infrared homing ("heat-seeking") surface-to-air missile or air-to-air missile.

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Flight envelope

In aerodynamics, the flight envelope, service envelope, or performance envelope of an aircraft or spacecraft refers to the capabilities of a design in terms of airspeed and load factor or atmospheric density, often simplified to altitude.

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Flight instruments

Flight instruments are the instruments in the cockpit of an aircraft that provide the pilot with data about the flight situation of that aircraft, such as altitude, airspeed, vertical speed, heading and much more other crucial information in flight.

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Florida

Florida is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.

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Fly-by-wire

Fly-by-wire (FBW) is a system that replaces the conventional manual flight controls of an aircraft with an electronic interface.

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Ford Island

Ford Island (PokaAilana) is an islet in the center of Pearl Harbor, Oahu, in the U.S. state of Hawaii.

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Forward-looking infrared

Forward-looking infrared (FLIR) cameras, typically used on military and civilian aircraft, use a thermographic camera that senses infrared radiation.

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Fourth-generation fighter

The fourth-generation fighter is a class of jet fighters in service from around 1980 to the present, and represents design concepts of the 1970s. McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle and fourth-generation fighter are fourth-generation jet fighter.

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Fox News

The Fox News Channel (FNC), commonly known as Fox News, is an American multinational conservative news and political commentary television channel and website based in New York City.

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Fuselage

The fuselage (from the French fuselé "spindle-shaped") is an aircraft's main body section.

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Gabriel P. Disosway

General Gabriel Poillon Disosway (DIS-os-way; June 11, 1910 – February 23, 2001) was a noted four-star general in the United States Air Force (USAF) and served as commander of Tactical Air Command.

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Gallon

The gallon is a unit of volume in British imperial units and United States customary units.

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Gatling gun

The Gatling gun is a rapid-firing multiple-barrel firearm invented in 1861 by Richard Jordan Gatling.

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GAU-7 cannon

The Ford-Philco GAU-7/A was an abortive program initiated by United States Air Force in the late 1960s to develop a new cannon for the proposed F-14 ADC interceptor and replace the M61 Vulcan on the then-upcoming F-15 Eagle.

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GBU-10 Paveway II

The GBU-10 Paveway II is an American Paveway-series laser-guided bomb, based on the Mk 84 general-purpose bomb, but with laser seeking capabilities and wings for guidance.

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GBU-15

The Rockwell International Guided Bomb Unit 15 is an unpowered glide weapon used to destroy high-value enemy targets.

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General Dynamics

General Dynamics Corporation (GD) is an American publicly traded aerospace and defense corporation headquartered in Reston, Virginia.

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General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark

The General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark is a retired supersonic, medium-range, multirole combat aircraft. McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle and General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark are twinjets.

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General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon

The General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon is an American single-engine supersonic multirole fighter aircraft originally developed by General Dynamics for the United States Air Force (USAF). McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle and General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon are 1970s United States fighter aircraft and fourth-generation jet fighter.

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General Dynamics F-16XL

The General Dynamics F-16XL is a derivative of the F-16 Fighting Falcon with a cranked-arrow delta wing.

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Goldsboro, North Carolina

Goldsboro, originally Goldsborough, is a city in and the county seat of Wayne County, North Carolina, United States.

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Grand Forks Air Force Base

Grand Forks Air Force Base (AFB) is a United States Air Force installation in northeastern North Dakota, located north of Emerado and west of Grand Forks.

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Grumman

The Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation, later Grumman Aerospace Corporation, was a 20th century American producer of military and civilian aircraft.

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Grumman F-14 Tomcat

The Grumman F-14 Tomcat is an American carrier-capable supersonic, twin-engine, two-seat, twin-tail, all-weather-capable variable-sweep wing fighter aircraft. McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle and Grumman F-14 Tomcat are 1970s United States fighter aircraft, fourth-generation jet fighter, twin-tail aircraft and twinjets.

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Gulf War

The Gulf War was an armed conflict between Iraq and a 42-country coalition led by the United States.

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Hampton, Virginia

Hampton is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States.

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Harold Brown (Secretary of Defense)

Harold Brown (September 19, 1927 – January 4, 2019) was an American nuclear physicist who served as United States Secretary of Defense from 1977 to 1981, under President Jimmy Carter.

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Hawaii

Hawaii (Hawaii) is an island state of the United States, in the Pacific Ocean about southwest of the U.S. mainland.

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Hazeltine Corporation

Hazeltine Corporation was a defense electronics company which is now part of BAE Systems Inc.

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Head-up display

A head-up display, or heads-up display, also known as a HUD or head-up guidance system (HGS), is any transparent display that presents data without requiring users to look away from their usual viewpoints.

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Helmet-mounted display

A helmet-mounted display (HMD) is a headworn device that uses displays and optics to project imagery and/or symbology to the eyes.

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HESA Ababil

The HESA Ababil (ابابیل) is an Iranian family of single-engine multirole tactical unmanned aerial vehicles manufactured by Iran Aircraft Manufacturing Industrial Company (HESA).

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Hickam Air Force Base

Hickam Air Force Base is a United States Air Force (USAF) installation, named in honor of aviation pioneer Lieutenant Colonel Horace Meek Hickam.

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Hill Aerospace Museum

Hill Aerospace Museum is a military aviation museum located at Hill Air Force Base in Roy, Utah.

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Hill Air Force Base

Hill Air Force Base is a major U.S. Air Force (USAF) base located in Davis County, Utah, just south of the city of Ogden, and bordering the Cities of Layton, Clearfield, Riverdale, Roy, and Sunset with its largest border immediately adjacent to Clearfield and Layton.

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Hinckley

Hinckley is a market town in south-west Leicestershire, England.

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Holloman Air Force Base

Holloman Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base established in 1942 located six miles (10 km) southwest of the central business district of Alamogordo, which is the county seat of Otero County, New Mexico, United States.

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Honeycomb structure

Honeycomb structures are natural or man-made structures that have the geometry of a honeycomb to allow the minimization of the amount of used material to reach minimal weight and minimal material cost.

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Houthi movement

The Houthi movement (الحوثيون), officially known as Ansar Allah, is a Shia Islamist political and military organization that emerged from Yemen in the 1990s.

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Hughes Aircraft Company

The Hughes Aircraft Company was a major American aerospace and defense contractor founded on February 14, 1934 by Howard Hughes in Glendale, California, as a division of Hughes Tool Company.

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Hurricane Michael

Hurricane Michael was a powerful and destructive tropical cyclone that became the first Category 5 hurricane to make landfall in the contiguous United States since Andrew in 1992.

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Ian Allan Publishing

Ian Allan Publishing was an English publisher, established in 1942, which specialised in transport books.

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Idaho

Idaho is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.

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Identification friend or foe

Identification, friend or foe (IFF) is a combat identification system designed for command and control.

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Ilyushin Il-76

The Ilyushin Il-76 (Илью́шин Ил-76; NATO reporting name: Candid) is a multi-purpose, fixed-wing, four-engine turbofan strategic airlifter designed by the Soviet Union's Ilyushin design bureau as a commercial freighter in 1967, to replace the Antonov An-12.

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IMAX

IMAX is a proprietary system of high-resolution cameras, film formats, film projectors, and theaters known for having very large screens with a tall aspect ratio (approximately either 1.43:1 or 1.90:1) and steep stadium seating, with the 1.43:1 ratio format being available only in few selected locations.

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Imperial War Museum Duxford

Imperial War Museum Duxford is a branch of the Imperial War Museum near Duxford in Cambridgeshire, England.

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Incirlik Air Base

Incirlik Air Base (İncirlik Hava Üssü) is a Turkish air base of slightly more than 3320 ac (1335 ha), located in the İncirlik quarter of the city of Adana, Turkey.

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Inertial navigation system

An inertial navigation system (INS; also inertial guidance system, inertial instrument) is a navigation device that uses motion sensors (accelerometers), rotation sensors (gyroscopes) and a computer to continuously calculate by dead reckoning the position, the orientation, and the velocity (direction and speed of movement) of a moving object without the need for external references.

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Infrared search and track

An infrared search and track (IRST) system (sometimes known as infrared sighting and tracking) is a method for detecting and tracking objects which give off infrared radiation, such as the infrared signatures of jet aircraft and helicopters.

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Instrument landing system

In aviation, the instrument landing system (ILS) is a precision radio navigation system that provides short-range guidance to aircraft to allow them to approach a runway at night or in bad weather.

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Intake ramp

An intake ramp is a rectangular, plate-like device within the air intake of a jet engine, designed to generate a number of shock waves to aid the inlet compression process at supersonic speeds.

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Intelligent flight control system

The Intelligent Flight Control System (IFCS) is a next-generation flight control system designed to provide increased safety for the crew and passengers of aircraft as well as to optimize the aircraft performance under normal conditions.

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Interceptor aircraft

An interceptor aircraft, or simply interceptor, is a type of fighter aircraft designed specifically for the defensive interception role against an attacking enemy aircraft, particularly bombers and reconnaissance aircraft.

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Interdictor

An interdictor is a type of attack aircraft or tactical bomber that operates far behind enemy lines, with the express intent of air interdiction of the enemy's military targets, most notably those involved in logistics.

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Iraqi no-fly zones conflict

The Iraqi no-fly zones conflict was a low-level conflict in the two no-fly zones (NFZs) in Iraq that were proclaimed by the United States, United Kingdom, and France after the Gulf War of 1991.

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Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force

The Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force (IRIAF; Nirū-ye Havāyi-ye Arteš-e Jomhūri-ye Eslāmi-ye Irān) is the aviation branch of the Islamic Republic of Iran Army.

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Israeli Air Force

The Israeli Air Force (IAF; tl, "Air and Space Arm", commonly known as, Kheil HaAvir, "Air Corps") operates as the aerial and space warfare branch of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).

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Jackson Barracks

Jackson Barracks is the headquarters of the Louisiana National Guard.

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Jacksonville International Airport

Jacksonville International Airport is a civil-military public airport 13 miles (21 km) north of Downtown Jacksonville, in Duval County, Florida.

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Japan Air Self-Defense Force

The,, also referred to as the Japanese Air Force, is the air and space branch of the Japan Self-Defense Forces, responsible for the defense of Japanese airspace, other air and space operations, cyberwarfare and electronic warfare.

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John Boyd (military strategist)

John Richard Boyd (January 23, 1927 – March 9, 1997) was a United States Air Force fighter pilot and Pentagon consultant during the second half of the 20th century.

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John D. W. Corley

John Donald Wesley Corley (born August 11, 1951) is a retired four-star general in the United States Air Force.

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Joint Base Langley–Eustis

Joint Base Langley–Eustis is a United States military facility located adjacent to Hampton and Newport News, Virginia. The base is an amalgamation of the United States Air Force's Langley Air Force Base and the United States Army's Fort Eustis which were merged on 1 October 2010. The base was established in accordance with congressional legislation implementing the recommendations of the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure Commission.

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Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam

Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam (JBPHH) is a United States military base on the island of Oahu, Hawaii.

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Joint Direct Attack Munition

The Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) is a guidance kit that converts unguided bombs, or "dumb bombs", into all-weather precision-guided munitions (PGMs).

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Kadena Air Base

(IATA: DNA, ICAO: RODN) is a United States Air Force base in the towns of Kadena and Chatan and the city of Okinawa, in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan.

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Kelly Field

Kelly Field (formerly Kelly Air Force Base) is a Joint-Use facility located in San Antonio, Texas.

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Key Publishing

Key Publishing is a magazine publishing company specialising in aviation titles, based in Stamford, Lincolnshire, England.

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Kinetic energy

In physics, the kinetic energy of an object is the form of energy that it possesses due to its motion.

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King Abdulaziz Air Base

King Abdulaziz Air Base, also known as Dhahran Air Base and formerly Dhahran International Airport, Dhahran Airport and Dhahran Airfield, is a Royal Saudi Air Force base located in Dhahran in the Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia.

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Klamath Falls, Oregon

Klamath Falls is a city in, and the county seat of, Klamath County, Oregon, United States.

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Lackland Air Force Base

Lackland Air Force Base is a United States Air Force (USAF) base located in Bexar County, Texas, United States.

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Landing gear

Landing gear is the undercarriage of an aircraft or spacecraft that is used for taxiing, takeoff or landing.

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Langley Air Force Base

Langley Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base located in Hampton, Virginia, adjacent to Newport News.

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LANTIRN

LANTIRN (Low Altitude Navigation and Targeting Infrared for Night) is a combined navigation and targeting pod system for use on the United States Air Force fighter aircraft—the F-15E Strike Eagle and F-16 Fighting Falcon (Block 40/42 C & D models) manufactured by Martin Marietta (now Lockheed Martin).

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Las Vegas

Las Vegas, often known as Sin City or simply Vegas, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada and the seat of Clark County.

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Light bomber

A light bomber is a relatively small and fast type of military bomber aircraft that was primarily employed before the 1950s.

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Lightweight Fighter program

The Lightweight Fighter (LWF) program was a United States Air Force technology evaluation program initiated in the late 1960s by a group of officers and defense analysts known as the "Fighter Mafia".

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List of active United States military aircraft

The United States Armed Forces uses a wide variety of military aircraft across the respective aviation arms of its various service branches.

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List of fighter aircraft

Fighter aircraft are military aircraft primarily designed for air-to-air combat.

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List of Gulf War pilots by victories

The following is a list of air force pilots of the Gulf War by number of aerial victories.

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List of military electronics of the United States

This article lists American military electronic instruments along with brief descriptions.

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Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor

The Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22 Raptor is an American twin-engine all-weather stealth fighter aircraft developed and produced for the United States Air Force (USAF). McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle and Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor are twinjets.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Longeron

In engineering, a longeron or stringer is a load-bearing component of a framework.

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Look-down/shoot-down

A radar system has look-down/shoot-down capability if it can detect, track and guide a weapon to an air target that (as seen by the radar) is silhouetted against the ground.

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Loral Corporation

Loral Corporation was a defense contractor founded in 1948 in New York by William Lorenz and Leon Alpert as Loral Electronics Corporation.

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LTV A-7 Corsair II

The LTV A-7 Corsair II is an American carrier-capable subsonic light attack aircraft designed and manufactured by Ling-Temco-Vought (LTV).

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Luke Air Force Base

Luke Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States.

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M61 Vulcan

The M61 Vulcan is a hydraulically, electrically, or pneumatically driven, six-barrel, air-cooled, electrically fired Gatling-style rotary cannon which fires 3 rounds at an extremely high rate (typically 6,000 rounds per minute).

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Mach number

The Mach number (M or Ma), often only Mach, is a dimensionless quantity in fluid dynamics representing the ratio of flow velocity past a boundary to the local speed of sound.

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Magnavox

Magnavox (Latin for "great voice", stylized as MAGNAVOX or sometimes Magnavox in Australia) was an American electronics company.

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Manchester, Tennessee

Manchester is a city in Coffee County, Tennessee, United States.

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March Air Reserve Base

March Air Reserve Base (March ARB), previously known as March Air Force Base (March AFB) is located in Riverside County, California between the cities of Riverside, Moreno Valley, and Perris.

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March Field Air Museum

The March Field Air Museum is an aviation museum near Moreno Valley and Riverside, California, located in March Air Reserve Base.

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Marconi Electronic Systems

Marconi Electronic Systems (MES), or GEC-Marconi as it was until 1998, was the defence arm of General Electric Company (GEC).

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Massachusetts Air National Guard

The Massachusetts Air National Guard (MAANG) is the aerial militia of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, United States of America.

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McChord Air Museum

The McChord Air Museum is an aviation museum located at McChord Field near Lakewood, Washington.

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McChord Field

McChord Field (still referred to as McChord AFB by some as of 2023) is a United States Air Force base in the northwest United States, in Pierce County, Washington.

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McDonnell Douglas

McDonnell Douglas Corporation was a major American aerospace manufacturing corporation and defense contractor, formed by the merger of McDonnell Aircraft and the Douglas Aircraft Company in 1967.

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McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle

The McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle is an American twin-engine, all-weather fighter aircraft designed by McDonnell Douglas (now part of Boeing). McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle and McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle are 1970s United States fighter aircraft, aircraft first flown in 1972, Boeing military aircraft, fourth-generation jet fighter, McDonnell Douglas aircraft, twin-tail aircraft and twinjets.

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McDonnell Douglas F-15 STOL/MTD

The McDonnell Douglas F-15 STOL/MTD (Short Takeoff and Landing/Maneuver Technology Demonstrator) is a modified F-15 Eagle. McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle and McDonnell Douglas F-15 STOL/MTD are McDonnell Douglas aircraft, twin-tail aircraft and twinjets.

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McDonnell Douglas F-15E Strike Eagle

The McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing) F-15E Strike Eagle is an American all-weather multirole strike fighter derived from the McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle. McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle and McDonnell Douglas F-15E Strike Eagle are Boeing military aircraft, fourth-generation jet fighter, McDonnell Douglas aircraft, twin-tail aircraft and twinjets.

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McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II

The McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II is an American tandem two-seat, twin-engine, all-weather, long-range supersonic jet interceptor and fighter-bomber originally developed by McDonnell Aircraft for the United States Navy. McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle and McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II are McDonnell Douglas aircraft and twinjets.

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McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet

The McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet is an all-weather supersonic, twin-engine, carrier-capable, multirole combat aircraft, designed as both a fighter and attack aircraft (hence the F/A designation). McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle and McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet are 1970s United States fighter aircraft, Boeing military aircraft, fourth-generation jet fighter, McDonnell Douglas aircraft and twinjets.

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McMinnville, Oregon

McMinnville is the county seat of and most populous city in Yamhill County, Oregon, United States at the base of the Oregon Coast Range.

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Mikoyan MiG-29

The Mikoyan MiG-29 (Микоян МиГ-29; NATO reporting name: Fulcrum) is a twin-engine fighter aircraft designed in the Soviet Union. McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle and Mikoyan MiG-29 are fourth-generation jet fighter, twin-tail aircraft and twinjets.

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Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17

The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17 (Микоян и Гуревич МиГ-17; NATO reporting name: Fresco) is a high-subsonic fighter aircraft produced in the Soviet Union from 1952 and was operated by air forces internationally.

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Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21

The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 (Микоян и Гуревич МиГ-21; NATO reporting name: Fishbed) is a supersonic jet fighter and interceptor aircraft, designed by the Mikoyan-Gurevich Design Bureau in the Soviet Union.

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Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23

The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 (Микоян и Гуревич МиГ-23; NATO reporting name: Flogger) is a variable-geometry fighter aircraft, designed by the Mikoyan-Gurevich design bureau in the Soviet Union.

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Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25

The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 (Микоян и Гуревич МиГ-25; NATO reporting name: Foxbat) is a supersonic interceptor and reconnaissance aircraft that is among the fastest military aircraft to enter service. McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle and Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 are twinjets.

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Mil Mi-24

The Mil Mi-24 (Миль Ми-24; NATO reporting name: Hind) is a large helicopter gunship, attack helicopter and low-capacity troop transport with room for eight passengers.

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Mil Mi-8

The Mil Mi-8 (Ми-8, NATO reporting name: Hip) is a medium twin-turbine helicopter, originally designed by the Soviet Union in the 1960s and introduced into the Soviet Air Force in 1968.

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MIM-104 Patriot

The MIM-104 Patriot is a surface-to-air missile (SAM) system, the primary such system used by the United States Army and several allied states.

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Missouri Air National Guard

The Missouri Air National Guard (MO ANG) is the aerial militia of the State of Missouri, United States of America.

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Mitsubishi F-15J

The Mitsubishi F-15J/DJ Eagle is a twin-engine, all-weather air superiority fighter based on the McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle in use by the Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF). McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle and Mitsubishi F-15J are twin-tail aircraft and twinjets.

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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries

is a Japanese multinational engineering, electrical equipment and electronics corporation headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

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Mobile, Alabama

Mobile is a city and the county seat of Mobile County, Alabama, United States.

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Monocoque

Monocoque, also called structural skin, is a structural system in which loads are supported by an object's external skin, in a manner similar to an egg shell.

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Moscow

Moscow is the capital and largest city of Russia.

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Moscow Domodedovo Airport

Moscow Domodedovo International Airport (p) (IATA: DME, ICAO: UUDD), formally Domodedovo Mikhail Lomonosov International Airport, is an international airport serving Moscow, the capital of Russia.

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Mountain Home Air Force Base

Mountain Home Air Force Base is a United States Air Force (USAF) installation in the western United States.

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Multistage rocket

A multistage rocket or step rocket is a launch vehicle that uses two or more rocket stages, each of which contains its own engines and propellant.

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Museum of Aviation (Warner Robins)

The Museum of Aviation is the second-largest aerospace museum of the United States Air Force.

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NACA airfoil

The NACA airfoil series is a set of standardized airfoil shapes developed by this agency, which became widely used in the design of aircraft wings.

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NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research.

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Nationaal Militair Museum

The Nationaal Militair Museum (NMM) is a military museum in Soesterberg, Netherlands.

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National Museum of the United States Air Force

The National Museum of the United States Air Force (formerly the United States Air Force Museum) is the official museum of the United States Air Force located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, northeast of Dayton, Ohio.

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NATO

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO; Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique nord, OTAN), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance of 32 member states—30 European and 2 North American.

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NATO bombing of Yugoslavia

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) carried out an aerial bombing campaign against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia during the Kosovo War.

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Naval Air Station Keflavik

Naval Air Station Keflavik (NASKEF) is a United States Navy air station at Keflavík International Airport, Iceland, located on the Reykjanes peninsula on the south-west portion of the island.

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Naval History and Heritage Command

The Naval History and Heritage Command, formerly the Naval Historical Center, is an Echelon II command responsible for the preservation, analysis, and dissemination of U.S. naval history and heritage located at the historic Washington Navy Yard.

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Nellis Air Force Base

Nellis Air Force Base ("Nellis" colloq.) is a United States Air Force installation in southern Nevada.

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Nevada

Nevada is a landlocked state in the Western region of the United States.

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New England Air Museum

The New England Air Museum (NEAM) is an American aerospace museum located adjacent to Bradley International Airport in Windsor Locks, Connecticut.

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New Mexico

New Mexico (Nuevo MéxicoIn Peninsular Spanish, a spelling variant, Méjico, is also used alongside México. According to the Diccionario panhispánico de dudas by Royal Spanish Academy and Association of Academies of the Spanish Language, the spelling version with J is correct; however, the spelling with X is recommended, as it is the one that is used in Mexican Spanish.; Yootó Hahoodzo) is a state in the Southwestern region of the United States.

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New Orleans

New Orleans (commonly known as NOLA or the Big Easy among other nicknames) is a consolidated city-parish located along the Mississippi River in the southeastern region of the U.S. state of Louisiana.

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New York (state)

New York, also called New York State, is a state in the Northeastern United States.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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North American Aviation

North American Aviation (NAA) was a major American aerospace manufacturer that designed and built several notable aircraft and spacecraft.

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North American F-100 Super Sabre

The North American F-100 Super Sabre is an American supersonic jet fighter aircraft designed and produced by the aircraft manufacturer North American Aviation.

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North American F-86 Sabre

The North American F-86 Sabre, sometimes called the Sabrejet, is a transonic jet fighter aircraft.

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Northrop F-5

The Northrop F-5 is a family of supersonic light fighter aircraft initially designed as a privately funded project in the late 1950s by Northrop Corporation. McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle and Northrop F-5 are twinjets.

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Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems

Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems (NGES) was a business segment of Northrop Grumman from 1996 to 2015 until a reorganization on January 1, 2016 merged other Northrop Grumman businesses into NGES to form a new segment called Mission Systems.

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Nuclear reactor

A nuclear reactor is a device used to initiate and control a fission nuclear chain reaction or nuclear fusion reactions.

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Oahu

Oahu (Hawaiian: Oʻahu) is the most populated and third-largest of the Hawaiian Islands.

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Octave Chanute Aerospace Museum

The Octave Chanute Aerospace Museum, the largest aviation museum in Illinois, occupied part of the grounds of the decommissioned Chanute Air Force Base in Rantoul, Illinois.

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Operation Mole Cricket 19

Operation Mole Cricket 19 (מבצע ערצב-19, Mivtza ʻArtzav Tsha-Esreh) was a suppression of enemy air defenses (SEAD) campaign launched by the Israeli Air Force (IAF) against Syrian targets on June 9, 1982, at the outset of the 1982 Lebanon War.

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Operation Opera

Operation Opera (מִבְצָע אוֹפֵּרָה.), also known as Operation Babylon, was a surprise airstrike conducted by the Israeli Air Force on 7 June 1981, which destroyed an unfinished Iraqi nuclear reactor located southeast of Baghdad, Iraq.

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Operation Provide Comfort

Operation Provide Comfort and Provide Comfort II were military operations initiated by the United States and other Coalition nations of the Persian Gulf War, starting in April 1991, to defend Kurdish refugees fleeing their homes in northern Iraq in the aftermath of the Gulf War, and to deliver humanitarian aid to them.

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Operation Southern Watch

Operation Southern Watch was an air-centric military operation conducted by the United States Department of Defense from August 1992 to March 2003.

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Operation Wooden Leg

Operation "Wooden Leg" (מבצע רגל עץ, Mivtza Regel Etz) was an Israeli airstrike on the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) headquarters in Hammam Chott, near Tunis, Tunisia, on 1 October 1985.

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Oregon

Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.

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Oregon Air National Guard

The Oregon Air National Guard (OR ANG) is the aerial militia of the State of Oregon, United States of America.

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Osprey Publishing

Osprey Publishing is a British publishing company specializing in military history based in Oxford.

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Otis Air National Guard Base

Otis Air National Guard Base is an Air National Guard installation located within Joint Base Cape Cod, a military training facility located on the western portion of Cape Cod in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States.

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Oxford

Oxford is a city and non-metropolitan district in Oxfordshire, England, of which it is the county town.

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Pacific Air Forces

The Pacific Air Forces (PACAF) is a Major Command (MAJCOM) of the United States Air Force and is also the air component command of the United States Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM).

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Pacific Coast Air Museum

The Pacific Coast Air Museum, in Santa Rosa, California, is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting and preserving aviation history through the acquisition, restoration, and display of historic aircraft.

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Panama City, Florida

Panama City is a city in and the county seat of Bay County, Florida, United States.

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Panavia Tornado

The Panavia Tornado is a family of twin-engine, variable-sweep wing multi-role combat aircraft, jointly developed and manufactured by Italy, the United Kingdom and Germany. McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle and Panavia Tornado are twinjets.

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Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum

Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum (formerly the Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor) is a non-profit founded in 1999 to develop an aviation museum in Hawaii.

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Persian Gulf

The Persian Gulf (Fars), sometimes called the (Al-Khalīj al-ˁArabī), is a mediterranean sea in West Asia.

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Peterson Air and Space Museum

Peterson Air and Space Museum is an aviation museum located at Peterson Space Force Base, Colorado Springs, Colorado focused on the history of the Air Defense Command, Aerospace Defense Command and Air Force Space Command.

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Peterson Space Force Base

Peterson Space Force Base, previously Peterson Air Force Base, Peterson Field, and Army Air Base, Colorado Springs, is a United States Space Force base that shares an airfield with the adjacent Colorado Springs Municipal Airport and is home to the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), the Space Force's 21st Space Wing, elements of the Space Force's Space Systems Command, and United States Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) headquarters.

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Pilatus PC-9

The Pilatus PC-9 is a single-engine, low-wing tandem-seat turboprop training aircraft manufactured by Pilatus Aircraft of Switzerland.

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Pima Air & Space Museum

The Pima Air & Space Museum is an aerospace museum in Tucson, Arizona, US.

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Popeye (missile)

The Popeye (Hebrew: פופאי) is a family of air-to-surface missiles developed and in use by Israel, of which several types have been developed for Israeli and export users.

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Portland Air National Guard Base

Portland Air National Guard Base is a United States Air Force base, located at Portland International Airport, in Portland, Oregon.

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Pratt & Whitney F100

The Pratt & Whitney F100 (company designation JTF22) is an afterburning turbofan engine designed and manufactured by Pratt & Whitney to power the U.S. Air Force's "FX" initiative in 1965, which became the F-15 Eagle.

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Prince Sultan Air Base

Prince Sultan Air Base (قاعدة الأمير سلطان الجوية) (PSAB) is a military air base located in the closed-city of Al Kharj, Saudi Arabia.

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Proximity fuze

A proximity fuze (also VT fuze) is a fuze that detonates an explosive device automatically when it approaches within a certain distance of its target.

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Pueblo Weisbrod Aircraft Museum

The Pueblo Weisbrod Aircraft Museum is a non-profit aviation museum located in Southern Colorado.

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Pueblo, Colorado

Pueblo is a home rule municipality that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of Pueblo County, Colorado, United States.

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Pulse-Doppler radar

A pulse-Doppler radar is a radar system that determines the range to a target using pulse-timing techniques, and uses the Doppler effect of the returned signal to determine the target object's velocity.

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R-27 (air-to-air missile)

The Vympel R-27 (NATO reporting name AA-10 Alamo) is a family of air-to-air missiles developed by the Soviet Union during the late Cold War-era. It remains in service with the Russian Aerospace Forces, air forces of the Commonwealth of Independent States and air forces of many other countries as the standard medium-range air-to-air missile despite the development of the more advanced R-77.

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Radar

Radar is a system that uses radio waves to determine the distance (ranging), direction (azimuth and elevation angles), and radial velocity of objects relative to the site.

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Radar cross section

Radar cross-section (RCS), denoted σ, also called radar signature, is a measure of how detectable an object is by radar.

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Radar warning receiver

Radar warning receiver (RWR) systems detect the radio emissions of radar systems.

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RAF Lakenheath

Royal Air Force Lakenheath or RAF Lakenheath is a Royal Air Force station near the village of Lakenheath in Suffolk, England, UK, north-east of Mildenhall and west of Thetford.

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Ramon Airbase

Ramon Airbase (בסיס חיל-האוויר רמון, Basis Hayil-HaAvir Ramon, lit. Ramon Air Force Base) is an Israeli Air Force (IAF) base in the Negev desert, 50 km south of Beersheba and 20 km northwest of the town Mitzpe Ramon.

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RAND Corporation

The RAND Corporation is an American nonprofit global policy think tank, research institute, and public sector consulting firm.

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Rantoul, Illinois

Rantoul is a village in northern Champaign County, Illinois, United States.

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Raytheon

The Raytheon Company was a major U.S. defense contractor and industrial corporation with manufacturing concentrations in weapons and military and commercial electronics.

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Republic F-105 Thunderchief

The Republic F-105 Thunderchief is an American fighter-bomber that served with the United States Air Force from 1958 to 1984.

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Request for proposal

A request for proposal (RFP) is a form of reverse auction that solicits a business proposal by an organisation interested in the procurement of a service or product from potential suppliers.

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Retrofitting

Retrofitting is the addition of new technology or features to older systems.

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Richmond, Virginia

Richmond is the capital city of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States.

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Ring laser gyroscope

A ring laser gyroscope (RLG) consists of a ring laser having two independent counter-propagating resonant modes over the same path; the difference in phase is used to detect rotation.

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Riverside, California

Riverside is a city in and the county seat of Riverside County, California, United States, in the Inland Empire metropolitan area.

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Robert McNamara

Robert Strange McNamara (June 9, 1916 – July 6, 2009) was an American businessman and government official who served as the eighth United States secretary of defense from 1961 to 1968 under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson at the height of the Cold War.

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Robins Air Force Base

Robins Air Force Base is a major United States Air Force installation located in Houston County, Georgia, United States.

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Royal Saudi Air Force

The Royal Saudi Air Force (Al-Quwwat Al-Jawiyah Al-Malakiyah as-Su’udiyah) (RSAF) is the aviation branch of the Saudi Arabian Armed Forces.

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Royal Saudi Air Force Museum

The Royal Saudi Air Force Museum (or Saqr Al Jazeera Aviation Museum; متحف صقر الجزيرة للطيران) is located on the East Ring Road of Riyadh between exits 10 and 11.

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Russell, Illinois

Russell is an unincorporated community in Lake County, Illinois, United States.

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Saada Governorate

Saada (Ṣaʿdah) or Sa'dah is one of the governorates of Yemen.

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Saint Louis Science Center

The Saint Louis Science Center, founded as a planetarium in 1963, is a collection of buildings including a science museum and planetarium in St. Louis, Missouri, on the southeastern corner of Forest Park.

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Saint Paul, Minnesota

Saint Paul (often abbreviated St. Paul) is the capital of the U.S. state of Minnesota and the county seat of Ramsey County.

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Samad (UAV)

The Samad (صماد) (also spelled Sammad) is a family of long-range UAVs of unidentified origin used in the Middle East.

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Samurra Air Battle

Operation Samurra was an operation by the Iraqi Air Force (IQAF) during the Gulf War to decisively engage McDonnell Douglas F-15C Eagle fighters from the United States Air Force (USAF) using Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 interceptors, and break the "wall" of F-15s that the Coalition had established along Iraq's border with Iran.

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San Antonio

San Antonio (Spanish for "Saint Anthony"), officially the City of San Antonio, is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in Greater San Antonio, the third-largest metropolitan area in Texas and the 24th-largest metropolitan area in the United States at 2.6 million people in the 2020 US census.

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Santa Rosa, California

Santa Rosa (Spanish for "Saint Rose") is a city in and the county seat of Sonoma County, in the North Bay region of the Bay Area in California.

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Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in West Asia and the Middle East.

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Scottish Highlands

The Highlands (the Hielands; a' Ghàidhealtachd) is a historical region of Scotland.

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Seymour Johnson Air Force Base

Seymour Johnson Air Force Base is a United States Air Force (USAF) base located in Goldsboro, North Carolina.

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Shahed 129

The Shahed 129 (شاهد ۱۲۹, English: "witness"; sometimes S129) is an Iranian single-engine medium-altitude long-endurance unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) designed by Shahed Aviation Industries for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

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Sheppard Air Force Base

Sheppard Air Force Base is a United States Air Force (USAF) base located north of the central business district of Wichita Falls, in Wichita County, Texas, United States.

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Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk

The Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk is a four-blade, twin-engine, medium-lift utility military helicopter manufactured by Sikorsky Aircraft.

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Situation awareness

Situational awareness or situation awareness (SA) is the understanding of an environment, its elements, and how it changes with respect to time or other factors.

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Skin (aeronautics)

The skin of an aircraft is the outer surface which covers much of its wings and fuselage.

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Sniper Advanced Targeting Pod

The Lockheed Martin Sniper is a targeting pod for military aircraft that provides positive target identification, autonomous tracking, GPS coordinate generation, and precise weapons guidance from extended standoff ranges.

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Solwind

P78-1 or Solwind was a United States satellite launched aboard an Atlas F rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on February 24, 1979.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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Spangdahlem Air Base

Spangdahlem Air Base (IATA: SPM, ICAO: ETAD, former code EDAD) is a NATO air base with the United States Air Force as a tenant constructed between 1951 and 1953 and located near the small German town of Spangdahlem, approximately north-northeast of the city of Trier, Rhineland-Palatinate.

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St. Charles, Missouri

Saint Charles (commonly abbreviated St. Charles) is a city in, and the county seat of, St. Charles County, Missouri, United States.

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St. Louis

St.

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Stabilator

A stabilator is a fully movable aircraft horizontal stabilizer.

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Stainless steel

Stainless steel, also known as inox, corrosion-resistant steel (CRES), and rustless steel, is an alloy of iron that is resistant to rusting and corrosion.

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Strike fighter

In current military parlance, a strike fighter is a multirole combat aircraft designed to operate both as an attack aircraft and as an air superiority fighter.

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Sudan

Sudan, officially the Republic of the Sudan, is a country in Northeast Africa.

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Sukhoi Su-17

The Sukhoi Su-17 (izdeliye S-32; NATO reporting name: Fitter) is a variable-sweep wing fighter-bomber developed for the Soviet military.

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Sukhoi Su-25

The Sukhoi Su-25 Grach (Грач (rook); NATO reporting name: Frogfoot) is a subsonic, single-seat, twin-engine jet aircraft developed in the Soviet Union by Sukhoi. McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle and Sukhoi Su-25 are twinjets.

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Sukhoi Su-27

The Sukhoi Su-27 (Сухой Су-27; NATO reporting name: Flanker) is a Soviet-origin twin-engine supersonic supermaneuverable fighter aircraft designed by Sukhoi. McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle and Sukhoi Su-27 are fourth-generation jet fighter, twin-tail aircraft and twinjets.

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Sukhoi Su-7

The Sukhoi Su-7 (NATO designation name: Fitter-A) is a swept wing, supersonic fighter aircraft developed by the Soviet Union in 1955.

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Superplastic forming

Superplastic forming is an industrial process used for creating precise and complex components out of superplastic materials.

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Tactical Air Command

Tactical Air Command (TAC) is an inactive United States Air Force organization.

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Tactical air navigation system

A tactical air navigation system, commonly referred to by the acronym TACAN, is a navigation system used by military aircraft.

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Tailplane

A tailplane, also known as a horizontal stabilizer, is a small lifting surface located on the tail (empennage) behind the main lifting surfaces of a fixed-wing aircraft as well as other non-fixed-wing aircraft such as helicopters and gyroplanes.

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Terrain-following radar

Terrain-following radar (TFR) is a military aerospace technology that allows a very-low-flying aircraft to automatically maintain a relatively constant altitude above ground level and therefore make detection by enemy radar more difficult.

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Texas

Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the most populous state in the South Central region of the United States.

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Thanh Hóa Bridge

The Thanh Hóa Bridge (Vietnamese: Cầu Hàm Rồng, Hàm Rồng Bridge), spanning the Song Ma river, is situated northeast of Thanh Hóa, the capital of Thanh Hóa Province in Vietnam.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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Thermography

Infrared thermography (IRT), thermal video and/or thermal imaging, is a process where a thermal camera captures and creates an image of an object by using infrared radiation emitted from the object in a process, which are examples of infrared imaging science.

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Thrust

Thrust is a reaction force described quantitatively by Newton's third law.

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Thrust-to-weight ratio

Thrust-to-weight ratio is a dimensionless ratio of thrust to weight of a rocket, jet engine, propeller engine, or a vehicle propelled by such an engine that is an indicator of the performance of the engine or vehicle.

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Time (magazine)

Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City.

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Tom Clancy

Thomas Leo Clancy Jr. (April 12, 1947 – October 1, 2013) was an American novelist.

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Tricycle landing gear

Tricycle gear is a type of aircraft undercarriage, or landing gear, arranged in a tricycle fashion.

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Tucson, Arizona

Tucson (Cuk Ṣon; Tucsón) is a city in and the county seat of Pima County, Arizona, United States, and is home to the University of Arizona.

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Turbofan

A turbofan or fanjet is a type of airbreathing jet engine that is widely used in aircraft propulsion.

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Twin tail

A twin tail is a type of vertical stabilizer arrangement found on the empennage of some aircraft.

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Twinjet

A twinjet or twin-engine jet is a jet aircraft powered by two engines. McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle and twinjet are twinjets.

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Tyndall Air Force Base

Tyndall Air Force Base is a United States Air Force Base located east of Panama City, Florida.

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Ultra high frequency

Ultra high frequency (UHF) is the ITU designation for radio frequencies in the range between 300 megahertz (MHz) and 3 gigahertz (GHz), also known as the decimetre band as the wavelengths range from one meter to one tenth of a meter (one decimeter).

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Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering

The Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, abbreviated USD (R&E), is a senior official of the United States Department of Defense.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.

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United States Air Force

The United States Air Force (USAF) is the air service branch of the United States Armed Forces, and is one of the eight uniformed services of the United States.

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United States Air Force Academy

The United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) is a United States service academy in El Paso County, Colorado, immediately north of Colorado Springs.

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United States Air Forces in Europe – Air Forces Africa

The United States Air Forces in Europe – Air Forces Africa (USAFE-AFAFRICA) is a United States Air Force (USAF) major command (MAJCOM) and a component command of both United States European Command (USEUCOM) and United States Africa Command (USAFRICOM).

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United States Marine Corps

The United States Marine Corps (USMC), also referred to as the United States Marines, is the maritime land force service branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for conducting expeditionary and amphibious operations through combined arms, implementing its own infantry, artillery, aerial, and special operations forces.

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United States Naval Institute

The United States Naval Institute (USNI) is a private non-profit military association that offers independent, nonpartisan forums for debate of national security issues.

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United States Secretary of Defense

The United States Secretary of Defense (SecDef) is the head of the United States Department of Defense, the executive department of the U.S. Armed Forces, and is a high-ranking member of the federal cabinet.

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University of Nebraska Press

The University of Nebraska Press (UNP) was founded in 1941 and is an academic publisher of scholarly and general-interest books.

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University of Pennsylvania Law Review

The University of Pennsylvania Law Review, formerly known as the American Law Register, is a law review published by an organization of second and third year J.D. students at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

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Utah

Utah is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.

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Variable-sweep wing

A variable-sweep wing, colloquially known as a "swing wing", is an airplane wing, or set of wings, that may be modified during flight, swept back and then returned to its previous straight position.

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Vertical stabilizer

A vertical stabilizer or tail fin is the static part of the vertical tail of an aircraft.

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Vietnam War

The Vietnam War was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.

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Virginia

Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains.

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Volk Field Air National Guard Base

Volk Field Air National Guard Base is a military airport located near the village of Camp Douglas, in Juneau County, Wisconsin, United States.

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Warner Robins, Georgia

Warner Robins (WRB; typically) is a city in Houston and Peach counties in the U.S. state of Georgia.

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Washington (state)

Washington, officially the State of Washington, is the westernmost state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.

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Weapon systems officer

A Weapon Systems Officer (WSO), nicknamed "Wizzo", is an air flight officer directly involved in all air operations and weapon systems of a military aircraft.

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Wichita Falls, Texas

Wichita Falls is a city in and the county seat of Wichita County, Texas, United States.

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Wilbert Pearson

Wilbert "Doug" Pearson Jr. is a retired major general and test pilot in the United States Air Force.

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Wing

A wing is a type of fin that produces lift while moving through air or some other fluid.

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Wing loading

In aerodynamics, wing loading is the total weight of an aircraft or flying animal divided by the area of its wing.

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Wing root

The wing root is the part of the wing on a fixed-wing aircraft or winged-spaceship that is closest to the fuselage,Peppler, I.L.: From The Ground Up, page 9.

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Wisconsin

Wisconsin is a state in the Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest of the United States.

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Wright-Patterson Air Force Base

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (WPAFB) is a United States Air Force base and census-designated place just east of Dayton, Ohio, in Greene and Montgomery counties.

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Yanks Air Museum

The Yanks Air Museum is an aviation museum dedicated to exhibiting, preserving and restoring American aircraft and artifacts in order to show the evolution of American aviation, located at Chino Airport in Chino, California.

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Yemeni civil war (2014–present)

The Yemeni civil war (al-ḥarb al-ʾahlīyah al-yamanīyah) is an ongoing multilateral civil war that began in late 2014 mainly between the Rashad al-Alimi-led Presidential Leadership Council and the Mahdi al-Mashat-led Supreme Political Council, along with their supporters and allies.

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Yugoslav Air Force

The Air Force and Air Defence (Ratno vazduhoplovstvo i protivvazdušna odbrana; abbr. RV i PVO), was one of three branches of the Yugoslav People's Army, the Yugoslav military.

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102nd Intelligence Wing

The United States Air Force's 102nd Intelligence Wing (102 IW), of the Massachusetts Air National Guard, is a military intelligence unit located at Otis Air National Guard Base, Massachusetts.

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131st Bomb Wing

The 131st Bomb Wing is a unit of the Missouri Air National Guard, stationed at Whiteman Air Force Base, Knob Noster, Missouri.

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1982 Lebanon War

The 1982 Lebanon War began on 6 June 1982, when Israel invaded southern Lebanon.

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1983 Negev mid-air collision

In May 1983, two Israeli Air Force aircraft, an F-15 Eagle and an A-4 Skyhawk, collided in mid-air during a training exercise over the Negev region, in Israel.

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1994 Black Hawk shootdown incident

The 1994 Black Hawk shootdown incident, sometimes referred to as the Black Hawk Incident, was a friendly fire incident over northern Iraq that occurred on 14 April 1994 during Operation Provide Comfort (OPC).

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20 mm caliber

20 mm caliber is a specific size of popular autocannon ammunition.

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2017 Las Vegas shooting

On October 1, 2017, a mass shooting occurred when 64-year-old Stephen Paddock opened fire on the crowd attending the Route 91 Harvest music festival on the Las Vegas Strip in from his 32nd-floor suites in the Mandalay Bay hotel.

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22nd Fighter Squadron

The 22nd Fighter Squadron, sometimes written as 22d Fighter Squadron, (22 FS) is an inactive United States Air Force unit.

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33rd Fighter Wing

The 33rd Fighter Wing, sometimes written 33d Fighter Wing, (33 FW) is a United States Air Force unit assigned to Air Education and Training Command's Nineteenth Air Force.

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412th Test Wing

The 412th Test Wing (412 TW) is a wing of the United States Air Force, assigned to the Air Force Test Center at Edwards Air Force Base, California.

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44th Fighter Squadron

The 44th Fighter Squadron is a unit of the United States Air Force, part of the 18th Wing at Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan.

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48th Fighter Wing

The 48th Fighter Wing (48 FW) is part of the United States Air Force's Third Air Force, assigned to Headquarters Air Command Europe and United States Air Forces in Europe (USAFE).

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493rd Fighter Squadron

The 493rd Fighter Squadron (493rd FS), nicknamed the Grim Reapers, is part of the United States Air Force's 48th Fighter Wing located at RAF Lakenheath, Suffolk, United Kingdom.

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53rd Fighter Squadron

The 53rd Fighter Squadron (53 FS) is an active unit of the United States Air Force, stationed at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland.

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555th Fighter Squadron

The 555th Fighter Squadron is part of the 31st Operations Group at Aviano Air Base, Italy.

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57th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron

The 57th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron (57 FIS), also known as "The Black Knights of Keflavik", was a previously inactive United States Air Force unit that was reactivated on 2 July 2024.

See McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle and 57th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron

See also

1970s United States fighter aircraft

• Convair Model 200
• F-14 Tomcat operational history
• General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon
• Grumman F-14 Tomcat
• List of McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle operators
• McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle
• McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet
• Northrop YF-17
• Rockwell XFV-12

Aircraft first flown in 1972

• Aérospatiale SA 360 Dauphin
• A-90 Orlyonok
• Acro Sport I
• Aero Boero 260AG
• Airbus A300
• Airmaster H2-B1
• Akaflieg Braunschweig SB-10 Schirokko
• Akaflieg Darmstadt D-38
• Akaflieg Stuttgart fs28
• Altinger Lenticular 15S
• Bartini Beriev VVA-14
• Beechcraft Super King Air
• Boeing E-3 Sentry
• Brokaw Bullet
• CSIR Sara II
• Dornier Aerodyne
• E & P Special
• Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II
• HAL Basant
• HPA Toucan
• Halton Jupiter
• Jameson RJJ-1 Gipsy Hawk
• Lockheed S-3 Viking
• Luenger Beta 1
• MacDonald S-20
• Malliga 2
• Manuel Hawk
• Martin Marietta Model 845
• McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle
• Miller WM-2
• Northrop YA-9
• PAC CT/4 Airtrainer
• PIK-19
• Partenavia Alpha
• Pazmany PL-4
• RTAF-4
• Rand Robinson KR-1
• Richard 150 Commuter
• Robin DR400
• Rolladen-Schneider LSD Ornith
• Rutan VariViggen
• Ryson STP-1 Swallow
• SZD-38 Jantar 1
• SZD-40x Halny
• Sindlinger Hawker Hurricane
• Sukhoi T-4
• Wendt WH-1 Traveler
• Wier RDW-2 Draggin' Fly
• Wright MPA Mk 1

Fourth-generation jet fighter

• AIDC F-CK-1 Ching-kuo
• Boeing F-15EX Eagle II
• Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet
• British Aerospace Harrier II
• British Aerospace Hawk 200
• CAC/PAC JF-17 Thunder
• Chengdu J-10
• Dassault Mirage 2000
• Dassault Mirage 4000
• Eurofighter Typhoon
• Fourth-generation fighter
• General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon
• Grumman F-14 Tomcat
• Guizhou JL-9
• HAL TEDBF
• Hongdu JL-10
• IAI Lavi
• KAI T-50 Golden Eagle
• McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II
• McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle
• McDonnell Douglas F-15E Strike Eagle
• McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet
• Mikoyan MiG-29
• Mikoyan MiG-31
• Mikoyan MiG-35
• Mikoyan Project 1.44
• Mitsubishi F-2
• Northrop F-20 Tigershark
• Northrop YF-17
• Panavia Tornado ADV
• Saab JAS 39 Gripen
• Shenyang J-11
• Shenyang J-15
• Shenyang J-16
• Sukhoi Su-27
• Sukhoi Su-30
• Sukhoi Su-33
• Sukhoi Su-34
• Sukhoi Su-35
• Xi'an JH-7
• Yakovlev Yak-130
• Yakovlev Yak-141

McDonnell Douglas aircraft

• Boeing 717
• Boeing C-17 Globemaster III
• DC-10 Air Tanker
• Douglas DC-8
• Douglas aircraft
• Harrier jump jet
• High Alpha Research Vehicle
• List of preserved McDonnell Douglas aircraft
• McDonnell Douglas A-12 Avenger II
• McDonnell Douglas C-9
• McDonnell Douglas CF-18 Hornet
• McDonnell Douglas DC-10
• McDonnell Douglas DC-9
• McDonnell Douglas DC-X
• McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle
• McDonnell Douglas F-15 STOL/MTD
• McDonnell Douglas F-15E Strike Eagle
• McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II
• McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet
• McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet in Australian service
• McDonnell Douglas High Speed Civil Transport
• McDonnell Douglas MD-11
• McDonnell Douglas MD-12
• McDonnell Douglas MD-80
• McDonnell Douglas MD-90
• McDonnell Douglas MD-94X
• McDonnell Douglas T-45 Goshawk
• McDonnell Douglas X-36
• McDonnell Douglas YC-15
• Northrop YF-23
• Project Isinglass

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_F-15_Eagle

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