Missile defense

Missile defense

Measures designed to detect, identify, track, and defeat attacking (ballistic) missiles in both strategic and theater tactical roles, during any portion of their flight trajectory (boost, post-boost, midcourse, or terminal) or to nullify or reduce the effectiveness of such attack.

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laser

Military; Missile defense

An active electron device that converts input power into a very narrow, intense beam of coherent visible or infrared light; the input power excites the atoms of an optical resonator to a higher ...

commit

Military; Missile defense

The process of committing one or more interceptor vehicles against a target track.

galosh

Military; Missile defense

The Soviet Anti-Ballistic Missile system built to defend Moscow from missile attack.

stealth

Military; Missile defense

1. A technique used to frustrate discrimination that uses the decoy shape and material content to reduce the reflected IR, radar, optical or acoustic cross-section to the defensive sensor. 2. US ...

outlays

Military; Missile defense

Actual expenditures. Checks issued, interest accrued on the public debt, or other payments, net of refunds and reimbursements. Total budget outlays consist of the sum of the outlays from ...

TEMPEST

Military; Missile defense

TEMPEST is an unclassified short name referring to investigation and studies of compromising emanations. It is often used synonymously for the term "compromising emanations," e.g. TEMPEST tests, ...

ABM-X-3

Military; Missile defense

A terminal Soviet anti-ballistic missile (ABM) defense system using transportable phased-array radars and both long and short-range, high acceleration interceptors similar to the U.S. Sprint. This ...