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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coverage

Military; Missile defense

1. The ground area represented on imagery, photomaps, mosaics, maps, and other geographical presentation systems. 2. Cover or protection, as the coverage of troops by supporting fire. 3. The extent ...

detector

Military; Missile defense

A passive IR, visible, UV detector turns photons into an electrical signal. The IFOV of the detector is its solid angular subtense. There is sometimes confusion between the detector subtense (size) ...

break-up

Military; Missile defense

1. In detection by radar, the separation of one solid return into a number of individual returns which correspond to the various objects or structure groupings. This separation is contingent upon a ...

datalink

Military; Missile defense

1. The means of connecting one location to another for the purpose of transmitting and receiving data. 2. A particular path between two nodes over which data is transmitted. It includes not only the ...