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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Missile defense

lock on

Military; Missile defense

Signifies that a tracking or target-seeking system is continuously and automatically tracking a target in one or more coordinates (e.g., range, bearing, elevation).

handoff

Military; Missile defense

This occurs when information on positions, velocities and tracks are given by one sensor or system to another and the first sensor or system continues to track the objects.

Delta-V

Military; Missile defense

A numerical index of the maneuverability of a satellite or rocket. It is the maximum change in velocity which a spacecraft could achieve in the absence of a gravitational field.

ilities

Military; Missile defense

The operational and support requirements a program must address (e.g., availability, vulnerability, producibility, reliability, maintainability, logistics supportability, etc.).

closure

Military; Missile defense

In transportation, the process of a unit arriving at a specified location. It begins with the arrival of the first element at a designated location and ends with the arrival of the last.

wargame

Military; Missile defense

A simulation, by whatever means, of a military operation involving two or more opposing forces, using rules, data, and procedures designed to depict an actual or assumed real life situation.

in-line

Military; Missile defense

An operational, not dormant, component, equipment or element of a weapons system which is participating in accompliching the system’s directed assignment by performing on-going functions. See also ...