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U.S. Department of Defence
Industry: Government; Military
Number of terms: 79318
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High energy beam made up of atomic/sub-atomic particles (electrons, protons, or neutrons) accelerated to near the speed of light.
Industry:Military
Preplanning processes and/or real-time coordination that occurs to minimize resource wastage between battle tiers or battle partitions.
Industry:Military
The breakup of a tank, either intentionally to serve as a penaid or naturally as a result of aerodynamic loads and heating upon reentry.
Industry:Military
Boundary conditions within which the developer must remain while allocating performance requirements and/or synthesizing system elements.
Industry:Military
To identify and rank targets in priority fashion, based upon criteria such as type, predicted impact point, and predicted time of impact.
Industry:Military
An offensive operation by day or night over enemy territory with the primary object of destroying enemy aircraft in the vicinity of their bases.
Industry:Military
In nuclear warfare, that period which extends from the termination of the final attack until political authorities agree to terminate hostilities.
Industry:Military
The conduct of a military operation in any combat environment wherein opposing forces employ non-conventional weapons in combination with conventional weapons.
Industry:Military
That part of a weapon or defense system which is added specifically for the performance of security functions and not categorized as components of other subsystems.
Industry:Military
An advanced exoatmospheric defense system oriented toward defense of ICBMs, consisting of missile-borne, passive infra-red sensors and non-nuclear homing interceptors.
Industry:Military