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The codes are intended for use by air, ground, sea, and space operations personnel at the tactical level. Code words that are followed by an asterisk (*) may differ in meaning from NATO usage. There is a key provided below to describe what personnel use which codes, as codes may have multiple meanings depending on the service.
Eurofighter Typhoon variants. The Eurofighter Typhoon is a European multinational twin-engine, supersonic, canard delta wing, multirole fighter. [ 3 ][ 4 ] The Typhoon was designed originally as an air-superiority fighter [ 5 ] and is manufactured by a consortium of Airbus, BAE Systems and Leonardo that conducts the majority of the project ...
Code words – a single classified word (e.g. BYEMAN) which identifies a specific special access program or portion. A list of several such code words can be seen at Byeman Control System. Exercise terms – a combination of two words, normally unclassified, used exclusively to designate an exercise or test [1]
Blockbuster bomb (World War II British, also known as "cookies") Bouncing bomb (World War II British) SC250 bomb (World War II Germany) Tallboy bomb (World War II British, "earthquake bomb") Grand Slam bomb (World War II British, "earthquake" bomb) T-12 Cloud Maker (44,000 lb U.S. development of the Grand Slam bomb) Butterfly bomb.
The Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet, a twin-engine, carrier-capable, multirole jet fighter. A RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile system The ubiquitous M4 , a 5.56×45mm (NATO cartridge) , air-cooled, direct impingement gas-operated , magazine-fed, carbine-length assault rifle , based on the M16 family of service weapons.
Tactical airlifter. Manned. c. 1974[ 14] 126 [ 2] The C-130J is replacing the C-130H on a one-for-one basis. The Air Force has Congressionally mandated floor of 271 C-130 aircraft. 6 to be divested in FY2025. [ 15] C-130J Super Hercules /J-30 Super Hercules. Lockheed Martin.
The F-35 was the product of the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program, which was the merger of various combat aircraft programs from the 1980s and 1990s. One progenitor program was the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Advanced Short Take-Off/Vertical Landing (ASTOVL) which ran from 1983 to 1994; ASTOVL aimed to develop a Harrier jump jet replacement for the U.S. Marine Corps ...
Arado Ar 66, trainer + night ground attack. Arado Ar 234 Blitz ('Lightning'), bomber + night-fighter (jet-engined) Blohm & Voss Ha 140, torpedo bomber floatplane (prototype) Blohm & Voss BV 237, dive bomber, ground attack (project) Dornier Do 11, (Do F) medium bomber, 1931. Dornier Do 13, medium bomber, 1933.