The NATO Stock Number for the M16 version is 1005-01-363-6670.

* Special Material Identification Code, a logistics management code used in association with the NATO Stock Number

* The Gerber / Emerson Alliance-The first automatic knife made by either company is based on the profile of Emerson Knives, Inc .' s earlier Raven knife design and is an issued item to certain military units under the NSN ( NATO Stock Numbers ): 5110-01-516-3243 and 5110-01-516-3244.

The final cost per system is and the NATO Stock Number is 1095-01-521-6087.

In practice, each of 36 NATO squadrons ( initially six Canadian squadrons Number 1 Air Division RCAF ) would provide two aircraft and pilots to a Quick Reaction Alert facility.

* Number of F16 fighters on NATO standby reduced from 12 + 12 to 8 + 8.

NATO uses the regular English numeric words ( Zero, One, with some alternative pronunciations ), whereas the IMO provides for compound numeric words ( Nadazero, Unaone, Bissotwo ...).

Typically, the following NATO color coding is used:

After partially recovering from the 1990s crisis, the Bulgarian military became a part of the collective defensive system of NATO.

* Dongfeng missile series, a Chinese surface-to-surface missile system ( NATO designation code CSS )

Linked to existing national radar sites the coordinated system was called the NATO Air Defence Ground Environment ( NADGE ).

The new coalition has as its main priorities — gaining of NATO and EU invitations, attracting foreign investment, and reforming social services such as the health-care system.

The NATO Air Standardization Coordinating Committee reporting name system ( used because correct designation of new types not always known ) was based on having the initial letter indicate type of aircraft ( B

Clifford made no effort to depart from McNamara's policies and programs on such matters as nuclear strategy, NATO, and military assistance, but he favored the Sentinel anti-ballistic missile system, to which McNamara had given only lukewarm backing.

" He told me the UN was a ' pull ' system, not a ' push ' system like I had been used to with NATO, because the UN had absolutely no pool of resources to draw on.

In 1973 the AWACS demonstration took place with interfaces to the British Linesman system, the French Strida II system, the NATO Ground Environment System in Germany and an element of the U. S. 407L Tactical Command and Control System in Belgium and 407L systems at Sembach and Neu Ulm in Germany.

Scholars and historians have seen the Congress system as a forerunner of the modern, arguably more effective collective security, international unity, and cooperative agreements of NATO, the EU, the League of Nations, and the United Nations.

* SA-5 Gammon, the NATO designation for the Russian S-200 ' Volga ' surface-to-air missile system

This led to the S-25 Berkut system ( SA-1 in NATO terminology ), which was designed, developed and deployed in a rush program, thereby becoming the first SAM system to reach production and become limited-operational with a small number of units with a combat role in 1953-1954.

In August 1995, following the Srebrenica massacre and the 2nd Markale massacre, NATO launched intensive bombing campaign which destroyed Bosnian Serb command and control system.

According to a report conducted by the ICTY entitled Final Report to the Prosecutor by the Committee Established to Review the NATO Bombing Campaign Against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia opined that, " Insofar as the attack actually was aimed at disrupting the communications network, it was legally acceptable " and that, " NATO ’ s targeting of the RTS building for propaganda purposes was an incidental ( albeit complementary ) aim of its primary goal of disabling the Serbian military command and control system and to destroy the nerve system and apparatus that keeps Milosević in power.

Notable systems using JOVIAL include the Milstar Communications Satellite, Advanced Cruise Missile, B-52, B-1B, B-2 bombers, C-130, C-141, and C-17 transport aircraft, F-111, F-15, F-16 ( prior to Block 50 ), and F-117 fighter aircraft, LANTIRN, U-2 aircraft, E-3 Sentry AWACS aircraft, Navy Aegis cruisers, Army Multiple Launch Rocket System ( MLRS ), Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters, F100, F117, and F119 jet engines, the NORAD air defense & control system ( Hughes HME-5118ME system ), the NATO Air Defence Ground Environment ( NADGE ) system and RL-10 rocket engines.

* Western Cold War preparedness necessitated a standardised, NATO-wide geospatial reference system, in accordance with the NATO Standardisation Agreement

AEW & C is also known by the older terms " airborne early warning " ( AEW ) and " airborne warning and control system " ( AWACS, ) although AWACS is the name of a specific system currently used by NATO and the USAF and is often used in error to describe similar systems.

As the term was used in Germany and other NATO countries, it referred to the decision of a country to not challenge a more powerful neighbor in foreign politics while maintaining national sovereignty.

It came to be used in the debate of the NATO countries in response to Willy Brandt's attempts to normalize relations with East Germany, and the following widespread scepticism in Germany against NATO's Dual-Track Decision.

In the United States, the assault rifle design was later in coming ; the replacement for the M1 Garand of WWII was another John Garand design chambered for the new 7. 62 × 51mm NATO cartridge ; the select-fire M14, which was used by the U. S. military until the 1960s.

A smaller version of the M16A2, the M4 carbine, is widely used by U. S. and NATO tank and vehicle crews, airbornes, support staff, and in other scenarios where space is limited.

* Belgian FN MAG, the most widely used GPMG among NATO and other western armies.

This led directly, and was used as a point, to the French withdrawal from the integrated military command of NATO in 1966.

The airport used to hold a significant NATO military base and was a vital pre-jet refueling stop for trans-Atlantic commercial air traffic.

The former NATO military base Naval Air Station Keflavik is used as a setting for an important story line in Tom Clancy's novel Red Storm Rising.

Meanwhile, Athens rallied behind Skopje and allowed Greek Macedonia to be used as a transit corridor for NATO forces moving to the region ahead of a possible invasion of Serbia.

In addition, Primary Reserve members are increasingly used for voluntary service as augmentation to the regular force overseas — usually NATO or United Nations missions.

As an approximation, the designers of radar systems for ballistic missiles, cruise missile, and antiship missiles used by the navies of NATO use as their equivalent of a nautical mile.

Generally the Soviet pilots have not used the NATO names, preferring a different Russian nickname.

Former Bulgarian Foreign Minister and Atlantic Club of Bulgaria founding president Solomon Passy owned a famous Trabant, which he used to take NATO Secretaries General Manfred Wörner, George Robertson and Jaap de Hoop Scheffer for a ride.

* 7. 62x51mm NATO and its civilian variant. 308 Winchester, sometimes incorrectly described as. 308 NATO by persons mixing English measurements, used by some civilians, with metric measurements used by the NATO organization ;

The US and NATO militaries used DU penetrator rounds in the 1991 Gulf War, the Bosnia war, bombing of Serbia, and the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Eventually, the NATO missiles were set up and used as bargaining chips in arms talks with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who took office in 1985.

In the past, Monte Limbara used to be the location of an important NATO long rage radar base and a Carabinieri ’ s barrack.

The significance of the agreement lies in the fact that Yugoslavia refused to accept it, which NATO used as justification to start the Kosovo War.

NATO Military experts said that by evidence gathered from “ The fact that the battery was lying within an area spattered by rubble and wreckage seemed to suggest that it was detonated using a relatively sophisticated timer device “ also the extensive amount of explosive used and the type of explosive all pointed to the Macedonian military.

After the U. S. bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, which killed three journalists and led to a diplomatic row between the U. S. and People ’ s Republic of China, NATO and various Western media claimed the building might have been targeted because the office of the Chinese military attaché was being used by Arkan to communicate and transmit messages to his paramilitary group, the Tigers, in Kosovo.