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A suite of aircraft, helicopters, ground vans, and electronic equipment which are used to emulate an electronic warfare environment for testing weapon systems on test ranges.
Industry:Military
The specific point at which a weapon is aimed. The point may be on the earth's surface, in the atmosphere, or in space. In some cases, the specific lethal point on a target to which a weapon is aimed.
Industry:Military
The aiming of sensors or defense weapons at a target with sufficient accuracy either to track the target or to aim with sufficient accuracy to destroy it. Pointing and tracking are frequently integrated operations.
Industry:Military
Fundamental principles by which the military forces or elements thereof guide their actions in support of national objectives. It is authoritative but requires judgment in the application. See also Combined Doctrine.
Industry:Military
Pertaining to an approach that starts with the highest level component of a hierarchy and proceeds through progressively lower levels; for example, top-down design, top-down programming, top-down testing. Contrast with bottom-up.
Industry:Military
1. To turn a weapon to the right or left on its mount. 2. A method of surveying in which lengths and directions of lines between points on the earth are obtained by or from field measurements, and used in determining positions of the points.
Industry:Military
The disabling of electronic equipment by means of nuclear explosion. The intense electromagnetic energy by a nuclear explosion obscures signals and renders many types of radar and other types of electronic equipment useless for minutes or longer.
Industry:Military
Execution of acquisition strategy to convert some parts or systems components from contractor furnished to government furnished. Rather than having prime contractor provide from its sources, government goes out to industry directly and procures items.
Industry:Military
This condition occurs when two or more targets reside close to the same plane also containing two sensors viewing the targets so they are within experimental determination of having the same hinge angle F. Thus, ghosting depends on LOS error and positions.
Industry:Military
The relative measure of a sensor's ability to distinguish one object from another. Theoretically (but not in practice) it is the distance between the mean locations of two observed objects given normal distributions and standard deviations for both objects.
Industry:Military
