** Atlas Cheetah, a fighter aircraft of the South African Air Force

** Abingdon Air & Country Show

** International Air Transport Association for Baker Army Air Field ( abandoned ), Baker Island, United States Minor Outlying Islands

** Air fans ( hovercraft, air boat )

** Product: Nike Air 180

** 1 Air Defense Battery.

** Air compressor oils

** Veterans Day, called Armistice Day until 1954, when the holiday was rededicated to be in honor all American military, naval, and Air Force, veterans.

** U. S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations

** Air masses and weather fronts

** Air conditioner refrigerant changed to R-134a.

** No. 7 Air Superiority Squadron – Dassault Mirage 2000

** The Mission of the Strategic Air Command

** Strategic Air Command Bomber Response Time

** Strategic Air Command's War Plans

** Strategic Air Command's Role in Ending the Cold War

** 1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash

** Elizabeth II opens the new Air Terminal Building at the Edinburgh Airport.

** Pacific Air Lines Flight 773 crashes near San Ramon, California, killing all 44 aboard ; the FBI later reports that a cockpit recorder tape indicates that the pilot and co-pilot had been shot by a suicidal passenger.

** Korean Air Flight 801 crash lands west of Guam International Airport, resulting in the deaths of 228 people.

** Planes piloted by Major Harold Geiger and Horace Meek Hickam, students at the Air Corps Tactical School, collide in mid-air at Langley Field, Virginia.

** Kim Sung-Il, Chief of Staff of the Republic of Korea Air Force

** The Royal Air Force drops 2, 300 tons of bombs on Berlin.

** The " Great Escape " – 76 Royal Air Force prisoners escape by tunnel " Harry " from Stalag Luft III this night.

** Ministers of Defence of Estonia

** Ministry of Defence ()

** Ten-Day War ( 1991 ) – a brief military conflict between Slovenian TO ( Slovenian Territorial Defence ) and the Yugoslav People's Army ( JNA ) following Slovenia's declaration of independence.

** In Ciskei, members of the Ciskei Defence Force loyal to dictator Oupa Gqozo open into a crowd of anti-Gqozo protestors organized by the African National Congress, killing at least 28 people and wounding nearly 200.

** Milltown Cemetery Attack: During the funeral of three Provisional IRA members in Milltown Cemetery in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Ulster Defence Association ( UDA ) member Michael Stone attacked the crowd with grenades and pistols, killing three and wounding over sixty.

** Recruitment begins in Britain for a home defence force: the Local Defence Volunteers, later known as the Home Guard.

** The Naval Defence Act dictates that the fleet strength of the British Royal Navy must be equal to that of at least any two other countries.

** In Northern Ireland, Protestant Ulster Defence Association Belfast leader John Gregg is killed by a loyalist faction.

** The body of David Kelly, a scientist at the Ministry of Defence, is found a few miles from his home, leading to the Hutton inquiry.

** Defence Signals Directorate ( DSD )

** Defence Intelligence Organisation ( DIO )

** Defence Imagery and Geospatial Organisation ( DIGO )

** Sabre Defence

** Sergey Leonidovich Sokolov, Minister of Defence of Soviet Union ( b. 1911 )

** Pavel Grachev, Defence Minister of the Russian Federation ( b. 1948 )

** Stonewall Variation in the Dutch Defence

** Canal Defence Light

** Die Sturmgesellen: Ein Wort zur Abwehr (" Stormfellows: a Defence ", essay, 1903 )

** The Second World War: Defence of Arras, Ypres-Comines Canal, Dunkirk 1940, Somme 1940, St. Valery-en-Caux, Saar, Breville, Odon, Fontenay le Pesnil, Defence of Rauray, Caen, Falaise, Falaise Road, La Vie Crossing, Le Havre, Lower Maas, Venlo Pocket, Ourthe, Rhineland, Reichswald, Goch, Rhine, North-West Europe 1940 ' 44-45, Barkasan, British Somaliland 1940, Tobruk 1941, Tobruk Sortie, El Alamein, Advance on Tripoli, Medenine, Zemlet el Lebene, Mareth, Akarit, Wadi Akarit East, Djebel Roumana, Medjez Plain, Si Mediene, Tunis, North Africa 1941-43, Landing in Sicily, Vizzini, Sferro, Gerbini, Adrano, Sferro Hills, Sicily 1943, Cassino II, Liri Valley, Advance to Florence, Monte Scalari, Casa Fortis, Rimini Line, Casa Fabbri Ridge, Savio Bridgehead, Italy 1944-45, Athens, Greece 1944-45, Crete, Heraklion, Middle East 1941, Chindits 1944, Burma 1944

** William Bullein-Bullein's Bulwarke of Defence againste all Sicknes, Sornes, and Woundes

** 13 January 1957-14 October 1959 Minister of Defence

** Ministry of Civil Defence & Emergency Management ( Te Rākau Whakamarumaru )

** Weather and Environmental Prediction and Services ( Defence Weather Services, Marine and Ice Services Ice Service ), National Weather Predictions, Weatheradio Canada, a national system of emergency weather broadcast transmitters )

** Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff