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Anti-air warfare [r]: Add brief definition or description
Electronic warfare [r]: A subset of information operations that deals with the use of electromagnetic or kinetic means to degrade an enemy's military electronics systems, to be able to operate one's own electronics in the face of enemy attacks, and to evade those attacks through protection or deception ^[e]
Radar [r]: Acronym for "radio detection and ranging"; a system used to locate a distant object by transmission of radio waves and reception of their reflection. ^[e]
- Diffraction [r]: A physical phenomenon that causes waves to bend around corners ^[e]
- Reflection [r]: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See Reflection (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.
- Absorption [r]: An identity linking a pair of binary operations. ^[e]
- Low probability of intercept [r]: A set of techniques to minimize the probability of hostile interception of a radio or radar signal ^[e]
Electro-optical guidance [r]: Add brief definition or description
Infrared guidance [r]: Missile or other guidance that locks onto an infrared energy source, and adjusts its flight controls to keep the source in the center of its course ^[e]

B-1 Lancer [r]: Add brief definition or description
B-2 Spirit (bomber) [r]: Add brief definition or description
Burke-class [r]: Add brief definition or description
F-117 Nighthawk [r]: Although it has a fighter designation, actually the first operational stealth light bomber of the U.S. Air Force ^[e]
F-117 [r]: The first operational stealth (i.e., low observability) attack aircraft, flown by the United States Air Force and beginning to go into retirement in favor of the F-22 Raptor and B-2 Spirit ^[e]
F-22 Raptor [r]: Add brief definition or description
F-35B Lightning II [r]: Add brief definition or description
F-35C Lightning II [r]: Add brief definition or description
MQ-3 Dark Star [r]: A unmanned aerial vehicle of intercontinental range, long endurance and full stealth, which could carry a variety of intelligence sensors; cancelled in favor of the cheaper MQ-4 Global Hawk ^[e]
SR-71 Blackbird [r]: An advanced, long-range, Mach 3 strategic reconnaissance aircraft developed from the Lockheed YF-12A and A-12 aircraft by the Lockheed Skunk Works. ^[e]
Zumwalt-class [r]: Add brief definition or description

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 ==Other related topics==
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