by Larry Bond
Scud: Family of short-range ballistic missiles of Soviet origin.
Sea Sparrow: US Navy short-range point defense missile.
Second Artillery Corps: A separate service within the People’s Liberation Army responsible for ballistic missile forces, both nuclear and conventional.
SOF: Special Operations Forces
SM-2: Standard Missile 2, US Navy long-range air defense missile.
SS-N-6: Soviet R-27 submarine launched ballistic missile.
Surion: South Korean transport utility helicopter.
T-54/55: Soviet main battle tanks introduced at the end of World War II.
T-62: Soviet 1960s era main battle tank.
Taepodong: A North Korean intercontinental ballistic missile.
TAO: Tactical action officer
TEL: Transporter erector launcher
TOW: Tube-launched, optically tracked, wire-guided anti-tank missile.
Type 033: Chinese copy of the Soviet Project 633 (Romeo) diesel-electric submarine.
Type 054/054A: Chinese guided missile frigate
Type 69: Chinese main battle tank based on the Soviet T-54 and T-62.
Type 88: Chinese main battle tank.
UAV: Unmanned aerial vehicle
UAZ-469: Warsaw Pact bloc produced light utility truck.
UH-1N Huey: US utility helicopter
UN: United Nations
USFK: US Forces Korea
UTM: Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate system.
VIP: Very important person
VX: A persistent nerve agent.
WMD: Weapons of mass destruction
XO: Executive officer, second in command of a warship.
Y-8: Chinese medium range transport aircraft used from numerous missions.
ZiL: Zavod imeni Likhachova, or the Likhachov Plant, a major Russian automotive manufacturer based in the city Moscow.