Key Military Terms & Craft Flashcards
(26 cards)
How many are in a battallion?
600-800 soldiers
What is a SAM?
Surface to Air Missile
What is the purpose of a SAM (Surface to Air Missile)?
is a missile designed to be launched from the ground or sea to intercept and destroy aircraft or other missiles
What is a cruise missile?
a low flying missile which is guided to its target by an on-board computer.
What is a glide bomber?
A glide bomb is a type of bomb designed to extend its range and precision by gliding through the air, typically with wings or fins attached. They are launched from a distance, allowing the launch aircraft to remain outside the range of enemy air defenses, and can be guided to a target using satellite navigation or other systems.
What is the pro of a glide bomber? (3)
They are low cost and high volume
1) Glide bombs are relatively inexpensive to produce and can be launched in large numbers, making them a significant threat.
2) they allow for long-range strikes
3)with the addition of guidance systems, they can achieve high accuracy
What is a pro of a cruise missile?
A key advantage of cruise missiles is their ability to be launched from various platforms (ground, air, sea), allowing for flexible and long-range strikes
Please list 5 examples of manned aircraft
fighters, bombers, tankers, transport, ISR
Please give 3 examples of unmanned systems
drones for survelliance, strike, electronic warfare
What is the SACEUR
Supreme Allied Commander of Europe
Twin fighter engine
What is a shahab 3 ballistic missile?
longest-range missile
148 Challenger 3 tanks
in air and space, future surveillance capabilities might be better provided by stealthy drones and space-based sensors rather than large, slow, vulnerable crewed aircraft such as the ______________
Boeing E-7 Wedgetail
DragonFire laser weapon
the recent announcement of the new _____________ drone coming into service represents the first major implementation of the RAF’s Autonomous Collaborative Platforms Strategy and is a significant improvement on the RAF’s over-hyped ‘_____________’ which spent several years without conducting a drone trial.
StormShroud
drone squadron’
What is HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH
Commissioned in 20187, she is the lead ship of the Queen Elizabeth class of aircraft carriers and the fleet flagship of the Royal Navy.
Operated on a crew of ____ the ______ -tonne warship has a range of 10,000 nautical miles and can carry up to ___ aircraft.
679
65,000-tonne
72
What is the Carrier Strike Group?
The airfield in Diego Garcia allows for strike operations and rapid deployments to the which three places?
Middle East, East Africa and South Asia…
The Diego Garcia port hosts surveillance stations which disrupt terrorist attacks,______________ and provide global intelligence capabilities
protect satellites
Diego Garcia projects _______ military power into the Indo-Pacific to reinforce regional stability and security.
UK-US
