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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Ilities

Military; Missile defense

The operational and support requirements a programme must address (e.g., availability, vulnerability, producibility, reliability, maintainability, logistics supportability, etc.).

Closure

Military; Missile defense

In transportation, the process of a unit arriving at a specified location. It begins with the arrival of the first element at a designated location and ends with the arrival of the last.

Dog House

Military; Missile defense

A large Soviet A-frame radar used as a component of the Moscow ABM system having a detection range of approximately 3000 km. It is believed to provide battle management for the totality of Moscow ...

Cost risk

Military; Missile defense

Cost estimating risk and schedule/technical risk. Cost estimating risk is the risk due to cost estimating errors and the statistical uncertainty in the estimate. Schedule/technical risk is risk due ...

Footprint

Military; Missile defense

1. An estimated area of possible reentry or the solid angle of a detector or linear area of a detector at a certain location. 2. Geographic area in which a focused satellite downlink can be received.

Signature

Military; Missile defense

1. Distinctive type of radiation emitted or reflected by a target, which can be used to identify that target; 2. The characteristic pattern of a target displayed by detection and identification ...

Transonic

Military; Missile defense

Of or pertaining to the speed of a body in a surrounding fluid when the relative speed of the fluid is subsonic in some places and supersonic in others. This is encountered when passing from subsonic ...