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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Product improvement

Military; Missile defense

Effort to incorporate a configuration change involving engineering and testing on end items and depot repairable components, or changes on other than developmental items to increase system or combat ...

Hostile environment

Military; Missile defense

Those environments that result from a BMD system engagement of an enemy threat or collateral conditions resulting from deliberate hostilities. Hostile environment categories currently applicable to ...

Laser guided weapon

Military; Missile defense

A weapon that uses a seeker to detect laser energy reflected from a laser marker/designated target and, through signal processing, provides guidance commands to a control system. The control system ...

Contract definition

Military; Missile defense

A funded effort, normally by two or more competing contractors, to establish specifications, to select technical approaches, to identify high-risk areas, and to make cost and production time ...

Probability of kill

Military; Missile defense

The lethality of a weapon system. Generally refers to armaments (i.e. missiles, ordnance, etc.) Usually the statistical probability that the weapon will detonate close enough to the target with ...

Command centre (CC)

Military; Missile defense

A facility from which a commander and his representatives direct operations and control forces. It is organised to gather, process, analyze, display, and disseminate planning and operational data and ...

System architecture

Military; Missile defense

The structure and relationship among the components of a system. The system architecture may also include the system's interface with its operational environment. A framework or structure that ...