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FRACTIONAL ORBITAL BOMBARDMENT SYSTEM [1 record]

Record 1 2005-05-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Missiles and Rockets
DEF

A method of launching ballistic missiles into low orbit (about 100 miles).

OBS

Retro-rockets fired after less than one revolution permit a rapid descent to targets, reducing defensive radar reaction times. FOBS attacks from the Soviet Union could approach the United States from the south, thus circumventing most of our current surveillance and tracking devices.

OBS

fractional orbital bombardment system; FOBS; fractional orbital ballistic system; FOBS: terms and abbreviations extracted from the "Disarmament and Peace Keeping" glossary with the permission of the United Nations Office at Geneva.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Missiles et roquettes
OBS

système de bombardement à orbite fractionnaire; système de bombardement orbital fractionné; système balistique semi-orbital; système de bombardement à fractionnement; système de bombardement par satellite sur orbite fractionnaire : termes tirés du lexique «Désarmement et Maintien de la Paix» avec l'autorisation de l'Office des Nations Unies à Genève.

Spanish

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