When an AMRAAM missile is being launched, NATO pilots use the brevity code-Fox Three.

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

With the " cold war " confrontation between the Soviet-backed Warsaw Pact nations and the Western powers in NATO, many new combat aircraft were produced and many new pilots trained.

These include the NATO Air Training Plan ( 1950 – 1957 ) that graduated 4, 600 pilots and navigators from 10 countries.

After completion of training, the Agressor pilots were assigned to the DACT squadrons at Clark AB, Philippines, RAF Alconbury, England and Nellis AFB where they were able to train USAF and NATO pilots.

More recently, NATO pilots in Iraq and Afghanistan have begun using strafing runs to support ground forces in areas where explosive ordnance could cause unacceptable civilian casualties.

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.

The main objectives are to train new pilots, and to maintain two fighters at immediate readiness for NATO.

The 80th Flying Training Wing ( 80 FTW ), also at Sheppard, conducts the Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training ( ENJJPT ) program, the world's only multi-nationally manned and managed flying training program chartered to produce combat pilots for both USAF and NATO.

The 80th FTW mission is to provide combat airpower by producing top quality fighter pilots for the NATO alliance.

In addition to the many operational active and reserve squadrons aboard, NAS Jacksonville is also home to Patrol Squadron THIRTY ( VP-30 ), the Navy's largest aviation squadron and the only P-3 Orion Fleet Replacement Squadron that prepares and trains U. S. and NATO / Allied pilots, air crew and maintenance personnel for further operational assignments in the P-3C Orion and EP-3E Aries in the U. S. Navy, and P-3B, P-3C and similar variants in various NATO and Allied navies and air forces.

The 3600th FTW became the dedicated training organization for both USAF and NATO pilots in the F-84.

During the cold war Soviet fire control radars were often named and NATO pilots would be able to identify the threats present by the radar signals they received.

Following some weather balloon operations, pilots began flying American Lockheed U-2 airplane reconnaissance missions as part of " Operation Overflight " by late 1957, including on nonstop flights back and forth between Incirlik and a NATO Air Base at the Norwegian town Bodø.

The purpose is to train pilots from the U. S., NATO and other allied countries for real combat situations.

These pilots were trained to fly according to the tactical doctrines of the Soviet Union and other enemies of the period, in order to better simulate what then-TAC, as well as USAFE, PACAF and other NATO pilots and WSOs would likely encounter in real combat against a Soviet, Warsaw Pact, or a Soviet-proxy adversary.

However German pilots and other staff practice handling and delivering the U. S. nuclear bombs Even if the NATO argument is considered legally correct, such peacetime operations could arguably contravene both the objective and the spirit of the NPT.

The mission of the 527th was to provide dissimiar air combat training for NATO pilots, using Soviet tactics.

The problem of NATO is not one of machinery, of which there is an abundance, but of the will to use it.

To stop the ethnic cleansing and genocide of Albanians by nationalist Serbs in the former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia's province of Kosovo, Clinton authorized the use of American troops in a NATO bombing campaign against Yugoslavia in 1999, named Operation Allied Force.

A machine gun is a fully automatic emplaceable weapon, most often separated from other classes of automatic weapon by the use of belt-fed ammunition ( though some designs employ drum, pan or hopper magazines ), generally in a rifle-inspired caliber ranging between 5. 56 × 45mm NATO (. 223 Remington ) for a light machine gun to as large as. 50 BMG or even more larger for crewed or aircraft weapons.

Notables in the U. S. arsenal during the 20th century included the M2 Browning. 50 caliber heavy machine gun and M1919 Browning. 30 caliber medium machine gun, and the M60 7. 62 × 51mm NATO general-purpose machine gun which came into use around the Vietnam War.

Opposition to pollution, use of nuclear power, NATO military action, and certain aspects of industrialised society were principal campaign issues.

In addition, these ships are also kept available for the use of the other European NATO countries.

ISO 3166 never assigns country codes beginning with " X ", these codes being assigned for privately customized use only ( reserved, never for official codes )— for instance, the ISO 3166-based NATO country codes ( STANAG 1059, 9th edition ) use " X " codes for imaginary exercise countries ranging from XXB for " Brownland " to XXR for " Redland ", as well as for major commands such as XXE for SHAPE or XXS for SACLANT.

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.

* NATO military services use 75 or 100 baud – 850 Hz.

Slovenia granted NATO use of its airspace and offered further logistical support.

The supersonic Hawker Siddeley P. 1154 which competed with the Mirage IIIV for NATO use was cancelled even as the aircraft were being built.

Therefore, the V-Force ( by having the capability of precision tactical air medium bombardment ) effectively deterred the armored overrun strategy, of the massed and massive Soviet & Warsaw Pact armies, which ( in theory ), could have overwhelmed the vastly outnumbered NATO ground forces of central Europe in a surprise ground attack ( which did not give away tactical surprise, by use of organic tactical air support ).

TOW-2B was the first to use tandem warheads in the mid-1980s, an aspect of the weapon which the US Army had to reveal under news media and Congressional pressure resulting from the concern that NATO antitank missiles were ineffective against Soviet tanks that were fitted with the new ERA boxes.

Organizations known to use ALE for Emergency management, disaster relief, ordinary communication or extraordinary situation response include: Red Cross, FEMA, Disaster Medical Assistance Teams, NATO, Federal Bureau of Investigation, United Nations, AT & T, Civil Air Patrol, SHARES, State of California Emergency Management Agency ( CalEMA ), other US States ' Offices of Emergency Services or Emergency Management Agencies, and Amateur Radio Emergency Service ( ARES ).

Examples of military systems that use communication satellites are the MILSTAR, the DSCS, and the FLTSATCOM of the United States, NATO satellites, United Kingdom satellites ( for instance Skynet ), and satellites of the former Soviet Union.

First-strike attack, the use of a nuclear first strike capability, was greatly feared during the Cold War between NATO and the Soviet Bloc.

Soviet conventional superiority, shown by the fact that the Soviet Union certainly was prepared for war in Europe, having massed armored, mechanized, artillery, and air forces poised along the Inner German and Czech borders, led by the dreaded Third Shock Army of the Soviet Union, caused NATO to consider the use of tactical nuclear weapons to stop the " steamroller " of the Red Army if they decided to take a drive through the Fulda Gap or an amble through the North German Plain.

In the event of a Soviet conventional attack on Western Europe, NATO planned to use tactical nuclear weapons.

NATO plans for war with the USSR called for the use of tactical nuclear weapons in order to counter Soviet numerical superiority.

For small arms it has been replaced by other propellants, such as the Improved Military Rifle ( IMR ) line of extruded powder or the WC844 ball propellant currently in use in the 5. 56 × 45mm NATO.

The Soviet Union sought early to use reunification as a way to push Germany out of NATO into neutrality, removing nuclear weapons from its territory.

NATO members do not use small arms ammunition that is prohibited by the Hague Convention.

The NATO brevity code for a semi-active radar homing missile launch is Fox One.

* Aboard NATO vessels, the use of the brevity code ' Vampire ' indicates incoming hostile anti-ship missiles.

NATO brevity code for an active radar homing missile launch is Fox Three.

The NATO brevity code for an air-to-air infrared-guided missile launch is " Fox Two ".

* Magnum, a NATO brevity code for an AGM-88 or anti-radiation missile launch