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The Chief of Staff, United States Air Force, under the direction of the Secretary of the Air Force, supervises all elements and personnel of the United States Air Force and exercises command over the Air Defense Command, the Strategic Air Command and the Tactical Air Command.  3, record 1, English, - Chief%20of%20Staff%2C%20United%20States%20Air%20Force

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The United States Alaskan Command is a sub-unified command under the United States Pacific Command(USPACOM). It is responsible for the unified defense of Alaska's land and territorial waters, including the Aleutian Islands. United States Alaskan Command is headquartered at Elmendorf AFB [Air Force Base], AK.  3, record 2, English, - United%20States%20Alaskan%20Command

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A constellation of sensor satellites under development by the Air Force which, within the context of NMD [National Missile Defense], would acquire and track ballistic missiles throughout their flight and provide the first estimate of their trajectory to the BMC2 system [Battle Management, Command and Control system].  4, record 3, English, - Space%2DBased%20Infrared%20System

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SBIRS operational requirements include four mission areas of missile warning, missile defense, technical intelligence, and battlespace characterization.  5, record 3, English, - Space%2DBased%20Infrared%20System

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Spaced-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) will replace the current Defense Support Program (DSP) and will be a consolidated, cost-effective, flexible system designed to meet U.S. infrared (IR) space-based surveillance and warning needs through the next two or three decades.  6, record 3, English, - Space%2DBased%20Infrared%20System

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Système infrarouge basé dans l'espace : traduction non officielle donnée à titre d'information seulement.  3, record 3, French, - Space%2DBased%20Infrared%20System

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Air defense is represented in the TOC by the airspace coordination element(ACE) composed of both ADA and Army aviation personnel. The senior ADA unit headquarters provides personnel and equipment to the ACE of the force to which it is organic, assigned, or attached.  1, record 4, English, - airspace%20coordination%20element

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Greatest government support of Mercury has been given by the Department of Defense. From its large pool of experienced aeronautical engineering test pilots, NASA selected its seven astronauts. The Army, Navy and Air Force are supplying valuable medical services and personnel. Each of the services is providing communications and tracking equipment and facilities for sections of the Mercury network.  2, record 5, English, - Mercury%20network

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Department of Defense satellites are controlled in orbit by the Air Force Satellite Control Network, which tracks the satellites, receives and processes telemetry transmitted by them, and sends commands to them.  1, record 6, English, - Air%20Force%20Satellite%20Control%20Network

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The Defense Meteorological Satelllite Program(DMSP) is a Department of Defense(DoD) program run by the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center(SMC). The DMSP program designs, builds, launches, and maintains several near polar orbiting, sun synchronous satellites monitoring the meteorological oceanographic, and solar-terrestrial physics environments.  2, record 7, English, - Defense%20Meteorological%20Satellite%20Program

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Over-the-horizon(OTH) radar systems were first developed during the Cold War as part of the early warning defense network. With the end of the Cold War, research into OTH radar continued, with a new focus : detection of illegal aircraft engaged in drug smuggling. Current research had its genesis in U. S. Air Force and Navy laboratories in the 1960s, as well as at Stanford University. At present, the United States, Russia, China, and Australia employ OTH radar for surveillance purposes. Much of the current effort is concentrated on the development of relocatable OTH radar(ROTHR), first demonstrated by the Navy in the early 1980s.  2, record 8, English, - over%2Dthe%2Dhorizon

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over-the-horizon; OTH: term and abbreviation extracted from the "Disarmament and Peace Keeping" glossary with the permission of the United Nations Office at Geneva.  3, record 8, English, - over%2Dthe%2Dhorizon

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transhorizon : terme tiré du lexique «Désarmement et Maintien de la Paix» avec l'autorisation de l'Office des Nations Unies à Genève.  3, record 8, French, - transhorizon

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The employment of strategic air and missile forces to destroy, or render impotent, military capabilities of an enemy force. Bombers and their bases, ballistic missile submarines, ICBM silos, ABM and air defense installations, command and control centers, and nuclear stockpiles are typical counterforce targets.  1, record 9, English, - counterforce%20strike

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The US Air Force has delivered to Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger its latest proposal for basing 100 MX intercontinental ballistic missiles in the western United States. Unlike previous proposals, this plan calls for the missiles to be closely spaced in a deployment strategy nick-named Dense Pack. In this scheme, the missile silos are super-hardened and placed about 700 m apart. The theory is that the silos would withstand anything but a direct hit and that the phenomenon known as fratricide among incoming enemy warheads would mean that there would be very few direct hits.  4, record 10, English, - closely%20space%20basing

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closely spaced basing; Dense Pack: terms extracted from the "Disarmament and Peace Keeping" glossary with the permission of the United Nations Office at Geneva.  5, record 10, English, - closely%20space%20basing

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Déploiement des missiles MX - le projet Dense Pack. L'US Air Force a remis à M. Caspar Weinberger, secrétaire américain à la Défense, une nouvelle proposition relative à l'implantation d'une centaine de missiles intercontinentaux de type MX dans l'ouest des États-Unis. Contrairement aux projets précédents, celui-ci prévoit d'aménager les missiles dans des silos espacés seulement de quelque 700 m (d'où la désignation «Dense Pack») et capables de résister à une explosion nucléaire, sauf en cas d'impact direct. On estime en effet que le phénomène dit «de destruction fratricide» dans les vagues de missiles ennemis diminuerait fortement les risques de coup au but.  4, record 10, French, - groupement%20serr%C3%A9

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groupement serré; positionnement dans un espace réduit : termes tirés du lexique «Désarmement et Maintien de la Paix» avec l'autorisation de l'Office des Nations Unies à Genève.  5, record 10, French, - groupement%20serr%C3%A9

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Douglas Aircraft Company finally got its share of the anticipated US Air Force airlifter loaf in February, when the US Defense Department gave the Air Force approval to go ahead with full-scale development of the C-17 strategic and tactical cargo aircraft.  1, record 11, English, - strategic%20and%20tactical%20cargo%20aircraft

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La Douglas Aircraft Company a finalement obtenu sa part du futur programme de renforcement des moyens logistiques de l'US Air Force. En février, le Pentagone a donné le feu vert au lancement de l'avion de transport tactique/stratégique C-17 que l'USAF réclamait depuis des années.  1, record 11, French, - avion%20de%20transport%20tactique%2Fstrat%C3%A9gique

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The US Air Force recently issued a Request for Proposals to industry for the design, development and test of a Digital Radar Landmass Simulator(DRLMS) system. Planned for use with the F-16 operational flight trainer, the DRLMS is intended to provide air-to-ground training to F-16 pilots from the air forces of the US, Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway and other countries. Data bases provided by the US Army's Defense Mapping Agency will be used to produce real-world simulation for the first time.  1, record 12, English, - digital%20radar%20landmass%20simulator

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L'US Air Force a récemment lancé un appel d'offres portant sur l'étude, la mise au point et les essais d'un simulateur DRLMS (Digital Radar Landmass Simulator = simulateur numérique de vidéo radar air-sol). Destiné à être intégré au simulateur de pilotage du F-16, le DRLMS permettra d'entraîner à l'emploi du radar, en mode air-sol, les pilotes des pays qui utilisent cet appareil, à savoir les États-Unis, la Belgique, le Danemark, les Pays-Bas, la Norvège, etc.; il sera fait appel, pour ce nouvel équipement, à la banque de données dont dispose la Defense Mapping Agency (Service cartographique des forces armées Américaines).  1, record 12, French, - simulateur%20num%C3%A9rique%20de%20vid%C3%A9o%20radar%20air%2Dsol

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