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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breakout

Military; Missile defense

Execution of acquisition strategy to convert some parts or systems components from contractor furnished to government furnished. Rather than having prime contractor provide from its sources, ...

ghosting

Military; Missile defense

This condition occurs when two or more targets reside close to the same plane also containing two sensors viewing the targets so they are within experimental determination of having the same hinge ...

K factor

Military; Missile defense

The relative measure of a sensor's ability to distinguish one object from another. Theoretically (but not in practice) it is the distance between the mean locations of two observed objects given ...

exercise

Military; Missile defense

A military maneuver or simulated wartime operation involving planning, preparation, and execution. It is carried out for the purpose of training and evaluation. It may be a combined, joint, or ...

guidance

Military; Missile defense

1. Direction, altitude control, and navigation (where appropriate) of sensors or interceptor vehicles. 2. The entire process by which target intelligence information received by a guided missile is ...

leverage

Military; Missile defense

1. The advantage gained by boost-phase intercept, when a single booster kill may eliminate many RVs and decoys before they are deployed. This could provide a favorable cost-exchange ratio for the ...

withhold

Military; Missile defense

1. A term used in a pre-planned response option (PRO) to identify the withholding of part of the space or ground weapon inventory against detected threat launches, in anticipation of follow-on ...