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WEAPONS

AESA-Active Electronically Scanned Array, a radar system that uses pulsed radar beams instead of a mechanically moving antenna to search the sky

AIM-9 Sidewinder-American heat-seeking air-to-air missile

AIM-120 AMRAAM-American Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile, radar-guided air-to-air missile

AL-52 Dragon-a B-52 bomber modified to carry an antiballistic-missile laser

AN/FPS/79-space tracking radar

AN/SPY-1-advanced shipborne air and space control radar

APG-79-fire control radar aboard the American F/A-18 Hornet fighter

AS-17 Krypton-Russian hypersonic air-launched attack missile

AWACS-Airborne Warning and Control System, an aircraft-based radar system used to track air and sea targets

BAMS-Broad Area Maritime Surveillance, a U.S. Navy program to use long-range unmanned aircraft for surveillance near a naval battle group

C-802-Chinese ship-or shore-launched antiship or land-attack missile

COIL-Chlorine-Oxygen-Iodine Laser, a system that uses a chemical reaction to produce laser light

Dong Feng-21 (DF-21)-Chinese submarine-or land-based mobile surface-to-surface solid-fuel rocket

DSP-Defense Support Program, a system of geosynchronous infrared satellites that detect missile launches on Earth

E-2C Hawkeye-a carrier-based long-range surveillance radar aircraft

Evolved Sea Sparrow-a ship-based antimissile defense system

FEL-Free Electron Laser, a laser that produces laser light by moving electrons freely through a magnetic field

50N8 Graza-Russian long-range surface-to-air missile

Grebe-a submarine-launched unmanned reconnaissance aircraft

Jian Hong-37N-Chinese carrier-based interceptor and attack aircraft

Julang-1S-Chinese submarine-launched ballistic missile, based on the DF-21 ballistic missile

Ka-27-Russian ship-based patrol and antisubmarine warfare helicopter

KT-3-Chinese land-based antisatellite missile based on the DF-21 ballistic missile

LADAR-Laser Radar, a system that uses electronically steered laser energy to detect ground, air, and space targets

MiG-31 “Foxhound”-Russian supersonic long-range interceptor aircraft

Mk 45-American standard shipborne five-inch gun

MQ-35 Condor-American air-launched commando insertion aircraft

netrusion-inserting damaging or corrupt data into a computer network through digital sensors

OMV-Orbital Maneuvering Vehicle, a device that can carry defensive or offensive weapons in space or through Earth’s atmosphere

Orion-next-generation manned orbital and lunar spacecraft

RQ-4 Global Hawk-a large, long-range, high-altitude, long-endurance unmanned reconnaissance aircraft

SA-N-9-Russian advanced naval surface-to-air missile system

SBIRS-Space-Based Infrared System, American next-generation space-based missile launch detection and tracking system

SH-60 Seahawk-American ship-based patrol and antisubmarine warfare helicopter

SM-2 Standard-American ship-launched antiaircraft, antiballistic, and antisatellite missile

SPG-62 target illuminator-American ship-based radar that places a beam on an air target that surface-to-air missiles can home in on

Sukhoi-34 Fullback-Russian advanced interceptor and attack aircraft

thirty-mike-thirty millimeter

Tin Man-American infantryman who wears an advanced electronic protective armor system

TLAM-Tomahawk Land Attack Missile, American ship-or submarine-launched long-range attack cruise missile

Xia-class-Chinese ballistic-missile submarine

YAL-1 Airborne Laser-American antiballistic-missile laser aircraft, based on a Boeing 747 aircraft

Yantar-4K2-Obsolete Russian reconnaissance satellite