Military Terminology : Some Issues of American Patent Translation

Abstract

The war in Ukraine showed that arms and weapons are the integral parts of a national economics. To produce weapon Ukrainian engineers, have to create modern, powerful system of production. The fastest and the easiest way is to use existing samples of well-developed countries (the USA, Great Britain, Germany, etc.). Ukrainian engineers need to search information in English. Therefore, the military vocabulary is a vital necessity in Ukraine for the scientists to be the part of the world society of weapon production. Ukrainian scientists (in engineering, technology, chemical, material sciences, etc.) are invited into different projects, they are highly-motivated and able to invent new products to defense our country and help our army. On this way the one obstacle is appeared - the way to translate the terms to provide the analysis of the existing researches of the military field. Moreover, in today’s situation the linguistic problems are deeply connected with the development of defense industry of Ukraine: very often the language does not have time to react naming, translating, and assimilating the military terms to fast inventions in the industry; Ukrainian linguists have never faced before with the “flow” of new words and their new meanings: “Structuring, unification and standardization of military terms and determining the interrelations between them can be the result of KO [Knowledge Organization] of the military terminology. In this way it would become much easier to find the proper place of each military term that refers to military activities, processes, products or actors by following the model and “filling in” the appropriate facets” [11, p. 44]. The situation with defense industry in Ukraine now is absolutely dramatic. As the Chief Executive Officer of the Ukrainian manufacturer UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle, commonly known as a drone) Vladyslav Belbas said: “Without waiting for lend lease, Ukraine is obliged to place orders with domestic producers. Will there be negative consequences for the Ukrainian defense industry from lend lease? Yes, there will, but the key word here is ‘Ukrainian.’ Because if there is no lend lease, then there will be no Ukrainian defense industry. There needs to be a healthy balance between import supplies capabilities and domestic manufacturing capabilities” [9].