Oscar Mike to the glossary. Copy that.
A patch of land where aircraft land and take off without pretending to be fancy—no terminals, no paved runways, just raw ambition and a prayer. Think of it as the budget airline of landing zones.
A rapid-response medical transport vehicle equipped to stabilize casualties in transit, originally adapted from mobile field hospital concepts during wartime. Modern variants blur the line between emergency response and tactical evacuation.
To execute a targeted elimination of a high-value target through covert means, typically for strategic, political, or ideological objectives. Remarkably efficient, ethically complicated, and wildly successful in spy fiction.
Military strategy of grinding down enemy forces through sustained casualties over time—basically 'we have more bodies than you do, so let's count.'
A jet engine system that injects fuel for rapid acceleration beyond normal operating parameters. When pilots need to go really, really fast right now.
Conflict where opponents have vastly unequal military capabilities, forcing creative tactics. When David fights Goliath and brings a slingshot instead of swords.