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The Air-Sol Moyenne Portée ("Medium-Range Air-to-Surface") or ASMP is a French nuclear-armed air-launched cruise missile manufactured by MBDA France.In French nuclear doctrine, it serves what is referred to as a "pre-strategic" deterrence role.
"Light Shield"), is a directed-energy weapon air defense system which was unveiled at the Singapore Airshow on 11 February 2014 by Israeli defense contractor Rafael Advanced Defense Systems. The system is designed to destroy short-range rockets, artillery, and mortar bombs ; it has a range of up to 7 km (4.3 mi), too close for the Iron Dome ...
This Article is a list of United States Air Force aircraft control and warning squadrons active, inactive, and historical. The purpose of an aircraft control and warning squadron is to provide an airborne radar picket to detect vessels, planes, and vehicles before they enter an area of operations, as well as providing command and control in an engagement by directing aircraft strikes.
Skyshield air-defence system is a modular, light weight, short range air defense (SHORAD) system developed by the Swiss corporation Oerlikon Contraves (now a subsidiary of Rheinmetall of Germany). The successor to the Skyguard defense system, Skyshield is intended to rapidly acquire and destroy threatening aircraft and missiles , as well as to ...
Aviano Air Base, Italy: 173rd Airborne Brigade: Active 9th Air Support Operations Squadron: Fort Hood, Texas: 1st Cavalry Division: Active 10th Air Support Operations Squadron: Fort Riley, Kansas: 1st Infantry Division: Active 11th Air Support Operations Squadron: Fort Hood, Texas: 3d Armored Cavalry Regiment [2] Inactive 13th Air Support ...
The Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex (WR-ALC), through about 7,000 employees at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, provides depot maintenance, engineering support and software development to major weapon systems [F-15, C-5, C-130, C-17 and Special Operations Forces (SOF) aircraft]. The Complex achieves command objectives providing a capability ...
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. S-300 family NATO reporting name: SA-10 Grumble, SA-12 Giant/Gladiator, SA-20 Gargoyle, SA-N-6 Grumble, SA-N-20 Gargoyle S-300 air defense system at the 2009 Moscow Victory Day Parade rehearsal, Red Square, 28 April 2009. Type Long-range surface-to-air and anti-ballistic missile system Place of ...
MANTIS Air Defence System [1] (Modular, Automatic and Network Capable Targeting and Interception System), formerly titled NBS-C-RAM (Nächstbereichschutzsystem Counter Rocket, Artillery, and Mortar), is a very short range air defence protection system of the German Air Force, intended for base-protection.