плацдарм – English translation

base; foothold; lodgment; jumping-off-place; stepping stone (something that allows you to make progress or begin to achieve something: a stepping stone to a more lucrative career. OALD Alexander Demidov); battleground (Olya34); bridgehead; beachhead

fig.

launching ground (В. Бузаков); buffer state (the ideal buffer state acting in tandem with strategic interests of... Windystone); staging ground (для нападения на сопредельные земли и их завоевания: Some scholars suggest Suleiman intended to use Hungary as a staging ground for further invasion of Europe Zamatewski)

Gruzovik, mil.

bridgehead (фр. place d'armes – "площадь для сбора войск"); lodgment area (фр. place d'armes – "площадь для сбора войск"); lodgement area (фр. place d'armes – "площадь для сбора войск")

mil.

place of arms; jumping-off ground; springboard; jumping board; jumping-off place; beachhead (высадки морского десанта); staging area; base area; firm base; lodgement; air-head (десантирования); bridge-head; jumping-off-ground; base of operations (в контексте; an area from which a military force begins its offensive operations, to which it falls back in case of reverse, and in which supply facilities are organized 4uzhoj); staging point (askandy)

mil., arm.veh.

build-up area; lodgement area

mil., grnd.forc.

toehold (Vadim Rouminsky)

"плацдарм" n

gen.

beachhead

предмостный плацдарм n

mil., tech.

bridge head

небольшой плацдарм n

mil.