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NATO reporting names are code names for military equipment of the Eastern Bloc (Soviet Union and other nations of the Warsaw Pact and China). They provide unambiguous and easily understood English language words in a uniform manner in place of the original designations — which may have been unknown (to the West) at the time or easily confused codes.
NATO maintains lists of these names and the assignment of the names for the Russian and Chinese aircraft is handled by the five-nation Air Standardization Coordinating Committee (ASCC) which consisted of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America.
The United States Department of Defense expands on the NATO reporting names in some cases. NATO refers to surface-to-air missile systems mounted on ships or submarines with the same names as the corresponding land-based systems, but the US DoD assigns a different series of numbers with a different suffix (i.e., SA-N- vs. SA-) for these systems. The names are kept the same as a convenience. Where there is no corresponding system, a new name is devised. Some US DoD nomenclature is included in the following pages and is noted as such.
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization or NATO ( /ˈneɪtoʊ/ NAY-toh; French: Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique Nord (OTAN)), also called the (North) Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949. The organization constitutes a system of collective defence whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party. NATO's headquarters are in Brussels, Belgium, one of the 28 member states across North America and Europe, the newest of which, Albania and Croatia, joined in April 2009. An additional 22 countries participate in NATO's Partnership for Peace, with 15 other countries involved in institutionalized dialogue programs. The combined military spending of all NATO members constitutes over 70% of the world's defence spending.
For its first few years, NATO was not much more than a political association. However, the Korean War galvanized the member states, and an integrated military structure was built up under the direction of two U.S. supreme commanders. The course of the Cold War led to a rivalry with nations of the Warsaw Pact, which formed in 1955. The first NATO Secretary General, Lord Ismay, stated in 1949 that the organization's goal was "to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down." Doubts over the strength of the relationship between the European states and the United States ebbed and flowed, along with doubts over the credibility of the NATO defence against a prospective Soviet invasion—doubts that led to the development of the independent French nuclear deterrent and the withdrawal of the French from NATO's military structure in 1966.
Tupolev TU-22 "Shilo" (Blinder - NATO reporting name ) part 1.
Tupolev TU-22 "Shilo" (Blinder - NATO reporting name) Part 2.
Mi 28 "Night Hunter" NATO Reporting name "Havoc"
The 9K720 Iskander (Russian: «Искандер»; NATO reporting name SS-26 Stone
The 9K720 Iskander (Russian: «Искандер»; NATO reporting name SS-26 Stone)
Crashed Kamov Ka-26 (NATO reporting name Hoodlum) Helicopter On Fire
Russian Air Defence System: S-400, Pantsir-S1 NATO reporting name SA-22 Greyhound
The S-75 Dvina (Russian: С-75; NATO reporting name SA-2 Guideline)
A Su-25 (NATO reporting name: "Frogfoot") jet crashed in Russia’s eastern Primorsky Krai region,
Mi-24 (Cyrillic Миль Ми-24, NATO reporting name 'Hind')
FSX Shenyang J-11 (NATO reporting name: Flanker B+) - Air superiority fighter
R-36 ICBM NATO reporting name: SS-18 Satan
Akash Missile*Akin to 2K12 Kub * SA-6 "Gainful"-NATO reporting name
Sukhoi Su-34, NATO reporting name: Fullback