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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big crow

Military; Missile defense

A suite of aircraft, helicopters, ground vans, and electronic equipment which are used to emulate an electronic warfare environment for testing weapon systems on test ranges.

aimpoint

Military; Missile defense

The specific point at which a weapon is aimed. The point may be on the earth's surface, in the atmosphere, or in space. In some cases, the specific lethal point on a target to which a weapon is ...

pointing

Military; Missile defense

The aiming of sensors or defense weapons at a target with sufficient accuracy either to track the target or to aim with sufficient accuracy to destroy it. Pointing and tracking are frequently ...

doctrine

Military; Missile defense

Fundamental principles by which the military forces or elements thereof guide their actions in support of national objectives. It is authoritative but requires judgment in the application. See also ...

top-down

Military; Missile defense

Pertaining to an approach that starts with the highest level component of a hierarchy and proceeds through progressively lower levels; for example, top-down design, top-down programming, top-down ...

traverse

Military; Missile defense

1. To turn a weapon to the right or left on its mount. 2. A method of surveying in which lengths and directions of lines between points on the earth are obtained by or from field measurements, and ...

blackout

Military; Missile defense

The disabling of electronic equipment by means of nuclear explosion. The intense electromagnetic energy by a nuclear explosion obscures signals and renders many types of radar and other types of ...