- Industry: NGO
- Number of terms: 31364
- Number of blossaries: 0
- Company Profile:
The United Nations Organization (UNO), or simply United Nations (UN), is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and the achieving of world peace.
Allocates resources and coordinates air, rail, road and sea movements; one is attached to the civilian component of the mission and another to the military component, both form the joint movement control centre.
Industry:Military
Also called buffer zone; area between the forward line of the parties, into which they have agreed not to deploy military forces and which may be placed under the control of a PKO
Industry:Military
Also known as area of separation; neutral space created by withdrawal of both hostile parties; a demilitarized zone where the parties have agreed not to deploy military forces; the cease-fire lines, marked and often fenced or wired on either side of the buffer zone, indicate the agreed forward limits of the contending forces; the cease-fire lines are observed, patrolled and perhaps occupied by the peace-keeping force; the buffer zone itself may be placed under the control of a PKO
Industry:Military
Ammunition containing chemicals that produce a smoke or brilliant light in burning, used for signaling or for lighting up an area at night. Includes explosives and launching gas, as well as signal and smoke ammunition, alarm flares etc.
Industry:Military
Ammunition containing chemicals that produce a smoke or brilliant light in burning, used for signaling or for lighting up an area at night. Includes explosives and launching gas, as well as signal and smoke ammunition, alarm flares etc.
Industry:Military
An air or ground route taken by an attacking force and leading to its objective or to key terrain in its path.
Industry:Military
An aircraft store (a thin-walled canister) containing and dispersing submunitions, which can be (anti-personnel or anti-tank) mines, penetration (runway cratering) bomblets, fragmentation bomblets etc.; a burster charge splits open the canister after release to disperse the bomblets over a wide area; some submunitions are fitted with delay or pressure fuzes, to act as mines (called "minelets"); the CBU itself however should not be confused with a fragmentation bomb.
Industry:Military
An airspace in which air operations are only allowed to UN forces. Violations will be stopped by air defense measures or the use of fighter planes. one was established in October 1992 by S/RES/781 in Bosnia airspace, monitored by UNPROFOR
Industry:Military
An all purpose (i.e. tactical and line of communication) prefabricated steel panel bridge designed for portability and speed of erection.
Industry:Military
