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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redout

Military; Missile defense

The degradation of infrared sensor resolution due to high-altitude nuclear bursts. Radiation from these bursts causes fluorescence-emission of light from air molecules. The emitted light lies within ...

lasant

Military; Missile defense

A material that can be stimulated to produce laser light. Many materials can be used as lasants; these can be in solid, liquid, or gaseous form (consisting of molecules including excimers or atoms) ...

X-rays

Military; Missile defense

Electromagnetic radiation of high energy which results from either the release of energy from electrons changing orbits about the nucleus (discrete) or the inelastic collision of charged particles ...