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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

prograde orbit

Military; Missile defense

An orbit having an inclination of between 0° and 90° with the object moving in an easterly direction. (See Retrograde Orbit.)

launch azimuth

Military; Missile defense

Missile launch location measured in degrees clockwise from the local north-pointing longitude line at the launch site. (USSPACECOM)

security level

Military; Missile defense

The combination of hierarchical classification and a set of non-hierarchical categories that represents the sensitivity of information.

bistatic radar

Military; Missile defense

A radar system that has transmitters and receivers stationed at two geographically separate locations; a special case of multistatic radar.

pulse duration

Military; Missile defense

In radar, measurement of pulse transmission time in microseconds, that is, the time the radar’s transmitter is energized during each cycle.

limited attack

Military; Missile defense

An attack on the U.S. and its allies which provides a stressing timeline, and is geographically distinct. Not an all-out attack or mass wave.

traverse level

Military; Missile defense

That vertical displacement above low-level air defense systems, expressed both as a height and altitude, at which aircraft can cross the area.

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