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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performance

Military; Missile defense

Those operational and support characteristics of the system that allow it to effectively and efficiently perform its assigned mission over time. The support characteristics of the system include both ...

programming

Military; Missile defense

The projection of activities to be accomplished and the resources that will be required for a specified period in the future. The process of preparing a program, especially in terms of quantitative, ...

scaling law

Military; Missile defense

A mathematical relationship which permits the effects of a nuclear (or atomic) explosion of given energy yield to be determined as a function of distance from the explosion (or from ground zero), ...

inclination

Military; Missile defense

The inclination of an orbit is the (dihedral) angle between the plane containing the orbit and the plane containing the earth's equator. An equatorial orbit has an inclination of 0° for a satellite ...

correlation

Military; Missile defense

1. The process of relating observations or tracks from one set of data to observations or tracks from another set of data, i.e., collecting data from different frames or sensors that presumably ...

application

Military; Missile defense

1. (Software) It refers to a process, usually implemented as a software routine, at the highest level (Level 7) of the ISO open system architecture. 2. (SDS) It refers to such processes as the Battle ...