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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materials science

Military; Missile defense

The science of developing/altering and applying materials to obtain a resultant molecular structure with desirable physical properties and performance characteristics. (See Structures.) Also includes ...

inertial guidance

Military; Missile defense

A guidance system designed to project a missile over a predetermined path, wherein the path of the missile is adjusted after launching by devices wholly within the missile and independent of outside ...

multistatic radar

Military; Missile defense

A radar system with a transmitter and several receivers, all separated. A special case is bistatic radar. An advantage of multistatic radar over monostatic radar is that even if transmitters, which ...

acquisition (ACQ)

Military; Missile defense

1. (Sensor) The results of processing sensor measurements to produce object reports of interest to the system. 2. (Material) The conceptualization, initiation, design, development, testing, ...

support equipment

Military; Missile defense

All system equipment required to support the ground and flight phases of the mission. Support equipment includes aerospace ground equipment (AGE), maintenance ground equipment (MGE), transportation ...

nuclear radiation

Military; Missile defense

Particulate and electromagnetic radiation emitted from atomic nuclei in various nuclear processes. The important nuclear radiations, from the weapons standpoint, are alpha and beta particles, gamma ...