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Terms for subject Military (73214 entries)

non-deadly force	Force not intended or likely to cause death, or serious injury resulting in death. Related term: deadly force.
Non-Destructive Test Equipment	NDTE
Non-Developmental Airlift Aircraft	NDAA
Non-Direction Beacon	NDB
non-expendable supplies and materiel	Items which are not consumed in use and which retain their original identity during the period of use, such as weapons, and which normally require further accounting.
Non-Governmental Organization	NGO
Non-Hardened Small Unit Radio	NSUR
non-imaging portable radar sensor	A radar unit which weighs less than ten pounds, is small enough to fit into a briefcase and will detect motion through non-metallic walls and floors
Non-Imaging Sensors	NIS
non-interference	One of the basic principles of international law, which lays down that direct or indirect interference in the internal affairs of other states is inadmissible
Non-Lethal Submunitions	NLS
non-lethal weapons	Special types of weapon capable of depriving an enemy of his combat capability for a short time or for a prolonged period without causing irreparable harm. These weapons are used where conventional weapons, or even more so weapons of mass destruction, are unacceptable for political, ethical or other reasons. They can be subdivided into weapons effective against human targets (crowd-control gases, cartridges with rubber bullets, psychotropic agents, infrasonic weapons) and those effective against equipment (electromagnetic weapons, radar and computer jamming systems and biological and chemical agents, substances causing petrochemicals to decompose)
Non-Line-of-Sight Weapon System	NLOS
Non-Metallic Seal	NMS
NON-NSN	not assigned a national stock number
non-nuclear electromagnetic pulse weapons	Weapons which produce a momentary burst of radio-frequency energy through conversion of the energy released by a non-nuclear explosion
non-persisting agent	Chemical agent whose action time is limited to the time the vapour or aerosol cloud passes by.
Non-Proliferation (of Nuclear Weapons) Treaty	NPT
Non-Recurring	NR
Non-Recurring Finished Intelligence	NRFI