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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simulator

Military; Missile defense

A generic term used to describe a family of equipment used to represent threat weapon systems in development testing, operational testing, and training. A threat simulator has one or more ...

intensity

Military; Missile defense

The amount of energy of any radiation incident upon (or flowing through) unit area, perpendicular to the radiation beam, in unit time. The intensity of thermal radiation is generally expressed in ...

SBIRS low

Military; Missile defense

SBIRS low altitude component consisting of SBIRS LEO satellites. The SBIRS Low component will be designed to provide precision midcourse tracking and discrimination data to support early interceptor ...

interface

Military; Missile defense

1. A shared boundary defined by common physical interconnection characteristics, signal characteristics, and meanings of interchanged signals. 2. A device or equipment making possible interoperation ...

VIGILANTE

Military; Missile defense

Viewing Image/Gimbaled Instrumentation Lab-Analog Neural Three-d Experiment. VIGILANTE involves building a small computer (ANTE) offering 1/12 Operation Per Second (OPS), using a mixture of ...

shielding

Military; Missile defense

Any material or obstruction which absorbs (or attenuates) radiation and thus tends to protect personnel or materials from the effects of a nuclear explosion. A moderately thick layer of any opaque ...

logistics

Military; Missile defense

The science of planning and carrying out the movement and maintenance of forces. In its most comprehensive sense, it includes those aspects of military operations which deal with: (1) design and ...