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  • Vertical takeoff and landing/Definition
    Aircraft, most commonly helicopters, that can take off and land vertically, with no horizontal takeoff or landing roll.
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  • Unit (military)
    ==Units in land forces== | [[squad (land forces)]]
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  • Military rank/Related Articles
    * [[Captain (land forces)]] * [[Lieutenant (land forces)]]
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  • Mitsubishi G4M Betty/Definition
    Land-based, twin-engine Japanese Navy bomber with good performance and armament,
    148 bytes (18 words) - 22:11, 15 July 2008
  • BGM-109 Tomahawk/Definition
    ...launched from [[vertical launch system]]s on ships and submarines, against land targets
    159 bytes (22 words) - 02:05, 13 January 2009
  • Countermobility
    ...acilities such as roads, bridges and railroads; both [[mine (land warfare)|land]] and [[mine (naval warfare)|naval mining]]; construction of [[military obs ...ld be countermobility if the primary intent is to drain waterways or flood land, but not if the goal were to disrupt hydroelectric power generation.
    978 bytes (137 words) - 12:10, 24 April 2010
  • Sarven Riskilö
    ...of a peninsula that connects the islands of the archipelago with the main land.
    614 bytes (87 words) - 03:18, 14 September 2013
  • Black Swamp
    ...the 1850s which made the land arable and prompted a settlement boom. The land thereafter was one of the most fertile in the state.
    533 bytes (88 words) - 18:23, 14 September 2013
  • Signals intelligence collection, ground-based/Definition
    Fixed, [[transportable]] or [[mobile (engineering)| mobile]] facilities, on land, which contain [[signals intelligence]] sensors
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  • United States Marine Corps/Definition
    Branch of the U.S. armed forces serving as elite fighters on land and aboard sea-going amphibious warfare ships.
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  • Crusades/Definition
    ...l wars of religion fought by Christians, the most famous being in the Holy Land.
    123 bytes (18 words) - 13:27, 16 May 2008
  • Arctic Ocean/Definition
    Collective name for the region of Earth, both land and sea, which surrounds the [[North Pole]].
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  • M242 Bushmaster/Definition
    A 25mm [[autocannon]] used on a wide variety of land, sea, and air platforms
    112 bytes (17 words) - 17:51, 25 January 2009
  • Naval gunfire support
    ...craft flying from aircraft carriers, and from deep land attack from ships. Land attack is to naval gunfire support as battlefield air interdiction is to cl
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  • Operation Downfall/Definition
    A series of World War II contingency plans for the land invasion of Japan
    109 bytes (17 words) - 05:12, 31 March 2024
  • Indigenous peoples/Definition
    Ethnic groups native to a land or region, especially before the arrival of a foreign culture.
    129 bytes (19 words) - 22:56, 17 November 2011
  • Operation Torch/Definition
    ...f French North Africa during World War II; first American-German combat on land.
    146 bytes (19 words) - 00:29, 6 November 2008
  • Omar Ahmad/Definition
    ...on American Islamic Relations]]; unindicted co-conspirator, [[U.S. v. Holy Land Foundation]]
    150 bytes (17 words) - 20:52, 22 November 2009
  • Remu
    ...of a peninsula that connects the islands of the archipelago with the main land.
    652 bytes (92 words) - 03:28, 14 September 2013
  • LGM-30 Minuteman/Definition
    In the Minuteman III version, the only operational US land-based [[intercontinental ballistic missile]], fired from ultrahardened unde
    147 bytes (18 words) - 17:47, 12 July 2009
  • Landing zone/Definition
    ...rying helicopters, assault transports, or military gliders are expected to land
    151 bytes (19 words) - 20:42, 16 July 2008
  • Lao Cai Province
    ...hina War]]. The border area remains hazardous due to [[mine (land warfare)|land mines]].
    590 bytes (93 words) - 10:08, 28 February 2024
  • Artillery/Definition
    Large-calibre guns used in land-based warfare; also the term for an armed forces branch trained in its use.
    143 bytes (21 words) - 08:53, 19 March 2024
  • Israel Defense Forces/Definition
    The combined land, sea, and air forces of the [[State of Israel]]
    101 bytes (15 words) - 01:41, 5 September 2009
  • Coast/Definition
    A piece of land adjacent to a non-inland body of water.
    91 bytes (14 words) - 05:55, 24 October 2011
  • Australian Antarctic Territory/Definition
    Part of Antarctica claimed by Australia, covering 42% of it's land mass.
    108 bytes (14 words) - 21:21, 11 February 2009
  • Oasis/Definition
    Fertile tract of land that occurs in a desert wherever a permanent supply of fresh water is avail
    139 bytes (21 words) - 06:52, 16 September 2009
  • Mine warfare
    ...als with the use of, defense against, and removal of [[mine (land warfare)|land mines]], improvised explosive devices, and [[mine (naval warfare)|sea mines
    776 bytes (115 words) - 08:51, 5 May 2024
  • Antikythera/Definition
    Greek island with a land area of 20.43 square kilometers, lying 38 kilometers south-east of Kythira.
    137 bytes (17 words) - 04:44, 12 September 2009
  • Makuleke/Definition
    ...n of the Kruger National Park, comprising approximately 24,000 hectares of land.
    138 bytes (17 words) - 19:32, 8 March 2009
  • Colorado (U.S. state)/Definition
    High-elevation, land-locked state in the western central part of the [[United States of America|
    102 bytes (16 words) - 12:47, 11 July 2023
  • Thunder Bay, Ontario
    ...soil, and a shallow bedrock. There is, however, a small pocket of arable land in the Thunder Bay region.
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  • Mine (civil engineering)/Definition
    ...on and supporting infrastructure, usually underground but sometimes on the land surface (i.e., [[strip mining]]) used to remove valuable raw materials from
    212 bytes (29 words) - 09:39, 16 September 2008
  • Ground Controlled Approach
    ...ly with damaged aircraft. The classic example is when an aircraft needs to land in bad visibility. ...he pilot to the point where the runway is visible, and say "take over and land manually".
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  • Exocet/Definition
    An aging French anti-shipping missile, which can be fired from land, aircraft, helicopter, submarine and ship platforms, and which has a consid
    199 bytes (27 words) - 17:56, 3 July 2009
  • Berlin Blockade/Definition
    ...period, from June 24, 1948 to May 11, 1949, when the Soviet Union cut all land routes to Berlin
    135 bytes (19 words) - 20:26, 12 September 2009
  • Ecological footprint/Definition
    ...ies of a biological unit, if converted to units of biologically productive land.
    172 bytes (23 words) - 00:31, 8 February 2009
  • Landlocked country/Definition
    ...t access to the sea, where goods being transported to or from must rely on land transport from a neighbouring countries ports.
    185 bytes (28 words) - 06:57, 18 August 2022
  • Louisiana Purchase/Definition
    A land purchase of the entire Louisiana Territory in 1803 from France by the Unite
    166 bytes (22 words) - 00:25, 10 July 2008
  • Knights Hospitaller
    ...ed with the care and defense of the region. Following the loss of the Holy Land by Christian forces, the Order operated from Rhodes, over which it was sove
    762 bytes (120 words) - 06:07, 30 March 2013
  • Gannet (bird)/Definition
    A northern member of the ''[[Sulidae]]'' family of [[seabird]]s, clumsy on land; the southern species are called [[booby|boobies]]
    166 bytes (25 words) - 10:19, 21 April 2010
  • New Hampshire (U.S. state)/Definition
    mid-size, mostly land-locked state in NE [[United States of America|U.S.]]; one of the country's
    118 bytes (18 words) - 10:34, 15 July 2023
  • Martha C. Pickett/Definition
    ...ector and General Counsel of Rocky Mountain Institute; President, Windstar Land Conservancy; member of Advisory Board to Catawba College’s Center for the
    216 bytes (28 words) - 10:26, 2 April 2024
  • Israeli Defense Forces/Related Articles
    ===Land warfare===
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  • Landing craft, vehicle, personnel/Definition
    A widely used light [[landing craft]] of WWII, which could land 30-40 troops, or small vehicles, on a beach, withdraw, and return to a ship
    175 bytes (28 words) - 01:26, 12 September 2009
  • D-Day
    *Beach reconnaissance parties will land at H-3 hours and egress at H-2:45 hours *The first wave will land at H hour
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  • Country/Definition
    Nation, state, region, or territory, or large tract of land distinguishable by features of topography, biology, or culture.
    160 bytes (21 words) - 04:01, 9 September 2009
  • Genghis Khan/Definition
    ...and most successful ruler of the Mongolian Empire, the largest contiguous land empire in history.
    160 bytes (22 words) - 01:58, 18 March 2009
  • Surface-to-surface missile
    | Land surface | Land
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  • KC-130/Definition
    ...States Marine Corps]] [[air refueling|airborne tanker]], which flies from land bases, and is frequently used to refuel Navy as well as Marine aircraft
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