- Industry: Government; Military
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A military maneuver or simulated wartime operation involving planning, preparation, and execution. It is carried out for the purpose of training and evaluation. It may be a combined, joint, or single-Service exercise, depending on participating organizations. See also Command Post Exercise.
Industry:Military
1. Direction, altitude control, and navigation (where appropriate) of sensors or interceptor vehicles. 2. The entire process by which target intelligence information received by a guided missile is used to effect proper flight control to cause timely direction changes for effective target interception.
Industry:Military
1. The advantage gained by boost-phase intercept, when a single booster kill may eliminate many RVs and decoys before they are deployed. This could provide a favorable cost-exchange ratio for the defense and would reduce stress on later tiers of the SDS. 2. In general, the power to act or influence to attain goals.
Industry:Military
1. A term used in a pre-planned response option (PRO) to identify the withholding of part of the space or ground weapon inventory against detected threat launches, in anticipation of follow-on attacks. 2. (Nuclear) The limiting of authority to employ nuclear weapons by denying their use within specified geographical areas of certain countries.
Industry:Military
1. The ground area represented on imagery, photomaps, mosaics, maps, and other geographical presentation systems. 2. Cover or protection, as the coverage of troops by supporting fire. 3. The extent to which intelligence information is available in respect to any specified area of interest. 4. The summation of the geographical areas and volumes of aerospace under surveillance.
Industry:Military
A passive IR, visible, UV detector turns photons into an electrical signal. The IFOV of the detector is its solid angular subtense. There is sometimes confusion between the detector subtense (size) and the pixel (picture element size). They are the same for a staring sensor, but in a scanner it depends on the array offset and number of samples per dwell. A pixel area is often only one-sixth or one-eighth of a detector angular area.
Industry:Military
1. In detection by radar, the separation of one solid return into a number of individual returns which correspond to the various objects or structure groupings. This separation is contingent upon a number of factors, including range, beam width, gain setting, object size, and distance between objects. 2. In imagery interpretation, the result of magnification or enlargement which causes the imaged item to lose its identity and the resultant presentation to become a random series of tonal impressions.
Industry:Military
1. The means of connecting one location to another for the purpose of transmitting and receiving data. 2. A particular path between two nodes over which data is transmitted. It includes not only the transmission medium, but digital to analog converters, modems, transmission equipment, antennas, etc., associated with this path. In the SDS backbone network, it was a path between two SDS elements. In space these datalinks were microwave or laser. On the ground, they could have been wireline, microwave, or optical fiber.
Industry:Military
