Broken Arrow

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Broken Arrow or broken arrow can refer to several things.

  • Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, a city near Tulsa, Oklahoma.
  • Broken Arrow (1996 film), a 1996 action movie starring John Travolta (the title relates to the first military definition below).
  • Broken Arrow (1950 film), a 1950 Western movie which won a Golden Globe award.
  • Broken Arrow (TV series), a television series that ran on ABC from 1956 to 1960.
  • Broken Arrow (album), released in 1996 by Neil Young and Crazy Horse.
  • Broken Arrow (song), released in 1967 by Buffalo Springfield on the album Buffalo Springfield Again.
  • Broken Arrow (band), a Heavy Metal band from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
  • Broken Arrow, a song released in 1987 by Robbie Robertson on his eponymous solo album and later remade by Rod Stewart on his 1991 album Vagabond Heart and released as a single in 1992.
  • Broken Arrow (Finnish Heavy Metal), a Finnish heavy metal band
  • In United States military nuclear incident terminology:
    • A broken arrow is an accidental event that involves nuclear weapons or nuclear components but does not create the risk of nuclear war.
    • Broken arrow is also a code word used to request close air support from all available aircraft when a ground position is in extreme danger of being overrun by enemy troops. This was last used in the Vietnam War, and is a plot element in movies such as We Were Soldiers.
  • The error code displayed on line 25 of an IBM's 3270 terminal for various kinds of protocol violations and “unexpected” error conditions (including connection to a down computer) is also called a broken arrow. On a PC, this is simulated with ‘->/_’, with the two center characters overstruck.
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