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Varsity Spirit | Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) directed and coordinated exercise. |
Vela Hotel | A satellite program for detection of nuclear detonations in space, now referred to as NDS (Nuclear Detection Satellite). NDS itself has been incorporated into the Program 647 Integrated Satellite. |
Vela Sierra | A Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) program for the detection of nuclear detonations within the atmosphere whose role was taken over by the Vela Hotel satellite, the latter now referred to as NDS (Nuclear Detection Satellite). |
Vela Uniform | The ground-based portion of the overall nuclear detection and investigation program sometimes referred to as Vela. |
Vigilant Look | AFSPC Training Program, intense one-week orientation program for senior leadership, established 03/2000 |
Vigilant Overview | Air Force exercises, involving the E-3A, to test the North American continent's air defense system. |
Vigilant Scholar | AFSPC/AFIT Training Program, 12-month program to build in-depth aerospace knowledge and expertise for hand-picked officers, established 03/2000 |
Vigilant Warrior | [...] |
Viper Fire | A Sperry development for the Army consisting of a target sight device mounted on a pilot's flight helmet which is electronically linked with the airframe to measure sight line angles to position the aircraft's armament. Within limits of the turret's tracking capability, the system, in effect, allows a pilot to acquire his target and train his guns on it by looking at it - without further positioning his aircraft. |
Vittles | Operation, Berlin Air Bridge, 1948/1949 |
Volant Cross | Meteorological reconnaissance in support of tactical air deployments, WC-130 |
Volant DEW | MAC OpOrd, LC-130H resupply missions to the Distant Early Warning (DEW) radar sites in Greenland |
Volant Eye | Tracking hurricanes along US coast, WC-130 |
Volant Forest | MAC OpOrd, C-130E fire fighting missions with MAFFS installed |
Volant Ghost | Meteorological reconnaissance in less developed areas of the World, WC-130 |
Volant Oak | MAC OpOrd, C-130 support missions for US Southern Command from Howard AB |
Volant Pine | Active Duty C-130 rotational deployments to Mildenhall, England; see also Volant Oak |
Volant Rodeo | Annual airlift readiness training exercise conducted by the Military Airlift Command. |
Volant Solo | was Coronet Solo II, MAC OpOrd, EC-130E(VS) psyops and C3CM missions, to Commando Solo; related/similar to Rivet Rider? |
Vortex | SIGINT satellite, new designation of the platform previously known as Chalet |
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