* 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.

* NATO Stock Number, a 13-digit numeric coding system used to define and identify NATO military supply equipment.

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.

And of course the Soviet threat was responsible for NATO, the grand alliance of the Atlantic nations.

Indeed it might be a more appropriate vehicle than NATO for the development of a parliamentary organ of the Atlantic nations, because it could encompass all of the members of the Atlantic community including those, like Sweden and Switzerland, who are unwilling to be associated with an essentially military alliance like Aj.

If there were no West Berlin problem, imperialist quarters would have invented an excuse for stepping up the armaments race to try to solve the internal and external problems besetting the United States and its NATO partners.

NATO has a standard ballistic model for computer calculations and has expanded the scope of this into the NATO Armaments Ballistic Kernel ( NABK ) within the SG2 Shareable ( Fire Control ) Software Suite ( S4 ).

* AA-5 Ash, NATO reporting name for the Bisnovat ( later Molniya ) R-4, an early Soviet long-range air-to-air missile

The president visited several European air bases to thank the troops ( not shown ) for their support of NATO Operations Allied Force and Shining Hope, 1999.

The former Bulgarian Minister of Foreign Affairs Solomon Passy proposed, Cape Verde may enter the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe and the NATO.

The division of Cyprus has remained an intractable political problem plaguing relations between Greece and Turkey, and drawing in NATO, of which both Greece and Turkey are members, and latterly the European Union, which has admitted Greece and Cyprus and which Turkey has been seeking to join for over twenty years.

The Czech Republic participates in the United Nations ( UN ); World Trade Organization ( WTO ); International Monetary Fund ( IMF ); Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ); International Energy Agency ( IEA ); North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) and the International Whaling Commission.

As a result, the focus on more highly trained soldiers equipped with, for example, 7. 62 mm NATO firing rifles, such as the U. S. Marine Corps Designated Marksman Rifle variant of the M14, has increased somewhat.

The Soviets were building nine sites — six for R-12 medium-range missiles ( NATO designation SS-4 Sandal ) with an effective range of and three for R-14 intermediate-range ballistic missiles ( NATO designation SS-5 Skean ) with a maximum range of.

At home, Eisenhower was more effective in making the case for NATO in Congress than the Truman administration ; by the middle of 1951, American and European support for NATO was substantial enough to give it a genuine military force.

During this period Mountbatten also served as Chairman of the NATO Military Committee for a year.

* Freestyle, NATO reporting name for the Yakovlev Yak-141, a Soviet VTOL aircraft

* 2003 – France and Belgium break the NATO procedure of silent approval concerning the timing of protective measures for Turkey in case of a possible war with Iraq.

By keeping very cool relations to NATO, and to western military powers in general, Finland could fend off Soviet preludes for affiliation to the Warsaw Pact.

The theory of bandwagoning provided support for the idea that if the U. S. was not able to provide strong and credible support for the anti-communist positions of its allies, NATO and the U. S .- Japan alliance could collapse.

* M16 rifle 5. 56 × 45mm NATO

The M16 fires the 5. 56 × 45mm NATO cartridge.

* M16: 5. 56 × 45mm NATO rifle ( produced under license by Colt Defense via a U. S. Government contract since 1991, by FNH USA ).

Like the M4 and M16, the XM8 was chambered for the standard 5. 56 mm NATO round and was normally equipped with a 30-round plastic box magazine.

The SPR, used by Special Operations Forces of both the U. S. Army and U. S. Navy, is a heavily modified light designated marksman variation of the AR-15 / M16 line of infantry weapons, and is chambered for NATO standard 5. 56x45mm ammunition.

With an adapter can use M16 NATO standard magazine.

In contrast, assault rifles fire smaller intermediate-size cartridges such as the 5. 56x45mm NATO round used in the M16, Chinese 5. 8x42mm used in the QBZ-95 or the Russian moderate-velocity 7. 62x39mm and 5. 45x39mm cartridges of the AK-47 and AK-74 series of rifles.

Much like the U. S. Marine Corps SAM-R, the 3rd Infantry division SDM-R was an accurized M16 rifle ( 5. 56x45mm NATO caliber ) built in-house by the U. S. Army Advanced Marksmanship Unit, and was informally known as " the AMU rifle ".

The SR-47 is basically an M4 that will accept standard AK-47 magazines rather than NATO STANAG M16 / M4 mags, along with other minor modifications common to KAC's designs.

Tests indicate the free recoil energy delivered by the 5. 45 × 39 mm AK-74 assault rifle is, compared to delivered by the 5. 56 × 45mm NATO in the M16 assault rifle and delivered by the 7. 62 × 39mm in the AKM assault rifle.

The Eastern leaders retaliated against these steps by integrating the economies of their nations in Comecon, their version of the Marshall Plan ; exploding the first Soviet atomic device in 1949 ; signing an alliance with People's Republic of China in February 1950 ; and forming the Warsaw Pact, Eastern Europe's counterpart to NATO, in 1955.

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.

Nevertheless, a NATO unclassified version of the document is provided to foreign, even hostile, militaries, even though they are not allowed to make it available publicly.

Its range is estimated to be around 160 kilometers, and is most probably an improved version of the Soviet Termit missile ( NATO codename " Styx ").

Consequently, DWM produced an enlarged version of the round, the 9 mm Parabellum ( known in current military parlance as the 9x19 mm NATO ), a necked-up version of the 7. 65 mm round.

The submarine-launched version of this missile was also designated as an SS-N-22 Sunburn by NATO but was known to the Soviets as the P-100 Oniks.

The HY-1 received two separate NATO reporting name, the CSS-N-2 Safflower for the ship to ship version and the CSSC-2 Silkworm for the land based coastal defense variant.

This line-up was the most straightforwardly " punk " version of ATV, although they combined short fast songs with extended pieces such as " Alternatives To NATO ", in which Perry read an anarchist political text and envisaged the possibility of a Soviet invasion of Britain.

Developed by Alliant Techsystems, with Heckler & Koch as a major subcontractor, the most commonly seen version of the XM29 consisted of a semi-automatic 20x28 mm smart grenade launcher, an underslung assault carbine ( derived from the HK G36 then in its late developmental stage ) firing a standard 5. 56x45mm NATO round, and a top-mounted computer-assisted sighting system with integrated laser rangefinder, thermal vision night vision capabilities, and up to 6x optical telescopic sight.

For example, the 7. 62mm NATO version EX-34 was advertised to offer 570 rounds per minute, and developmental work was underway for a 1, 000-rounds-per-minute version.

Only ~ 2, 000 M82 were manufactured, mostly as semi-automatic version in 5. 56 mm NATO caliber for ODIN International ltd. in Alexandria, Virginia.

HLA ( in both the current IEEE 1516 version and its ancestor " 1. 3 " version ) is the subject of the NATO standardization agreement ( STANAG 4603 ) for modeling and simulation: Modeling And Simulation Architecture Standards For Technical Interoperability: High Level Architecture ( HLA ).

The naval version of this missile has the NATO reporting name of SA-N-8.

* Vehicle radio-shielding as per NATO standards for military version

SEATO was intended to be a Southeast Asian version of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ), in which the military forces of each member would be coordinated to provide for the collective defense of the members ' country.

The Slovenian industrial group Laibach edited the lyrics in their cover version to make it appropriate for 1994's NATO album.

The later version, the R-36M was produced under the GRAU designations 15A14 and 15A18 and was given the NATO reporting name SS-18 Satan.

This version was designated AA-2B by NATO.

Considering that Soviet practice was to manufacture most air-to-air missiles with interchangeable IR-homer and semi-active radar homing seekers, NATO speculated that there might have been a SARH version of the ' Aphid.

An upgraded version, the R-60M ( NATO ' Aphid-B '), using a nitrogen-cooled seeker with an expanded view angle of ± 20 °, was introduced around 1982.

* Kh-555 ( NATO ' Kent-C ', Kh-55SE, Kh-55Sh )-conventionally armed version with an improved guidance system and warhead developed in response to the lessons of the NATO air offensive against Yugoslavia in 1999.