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

low earth orbit (LEO)

Military; Missile defense

These satellites are at altitudes between 100 and 400 nautical miles. They have short duration revolutions (about 90 minutes), short visibility envelopes (2.5 minutes up to 10 minutes over a tracking ...

pre-allocated defense

Military; Missile defense

A preplanned decision to designate a specific number of defensive assets to be used against a specific target or set of targets or to defend a specified asset or set of assets. The defense will ...

tactical warning (TW)

Military; Missile defense

1. A warning after initiation of a threatening or hostile act based on an evaluation of information from all available sources. 2. In satellite and missile surveillance, a notification to operational ...

induced radioactivity

Military; Missile defense

Radioactivity produced in certain materials as a result of nuclear reactions, particularly the capture of neutrons, which are accompanied by the formation of unstable radioactive) nuclei. In a ...

boost segment defense

Military; Missile defense

The first phase of a ballistic missile trajectory during which it is being powered by its engines. During this phase, which usually lasts 3 to 5 minutes for an ICBM, the missile reaches an altitude ...

software architecture

Military; Missile defense

The implementation of solutions to the problems in the domain. It becomes a model for constructing applications and mapping requirements from the domain model to reusable components. A generic ...

active defense (TBMD)

Military; Missile defense

Active defense protects against theater missiles by destroying them in flight. Engagement capability is required throughout all phases of the missile’s trajectory (boost, post-boost, mid-course, and ...