Air force

Air force

An branch of the military establishment that is responsible for aerial warfare as distinct from an army, navy or other branch. Typically, air forces are responsible for gaining control of the air, carrying out strategic and tactical bombing missions and providing support to surface forces.

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Remediation

Military; Air force

Actions taken in response to cleaning up a contaminated site to mitigate effects of environmental contamination on human health and safety, the environment, or the mission. Remediation actions can ...

Security assistance team

Military; Air force

For purposes of Air Force Foreign Internal defence doctrine, any team temporarily deployed by the United States Air Force to a recipient country to perform security assistance duties in behalf of the ...

Reachback

Military; Air force

The process of obtaining products, services, and applications or forces, equipment, or materiel from Air Force organisations that are not forward deployed.

Security measures

Military; Air force

The means to protect and defend information and information systems. Security measures include operations security and information assurance.

Retrograde

Military; Air force

Returning assets—particularly repairable parts—from the area of operations to their source of repair.

Unintended effect

Military; Air force

An outcome of an action (whether positive or negative) that is not part of the commander's original intent.

Weaponeering

Military; Air force

The process of determining the quantity of a specific type of lethal or nonlethal weapons required to achieve a specific level of damage to a given target, considering target vulnerability, weapons ...