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MISSILE DEFENSE [42 records]

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Alphabetical list of terms

Record 1 2025-05-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Defence Planning and Military Doctrine
  • Space Warfare
CONT

Space weaponization is a subset of space militarization. If one envisions a natural sequence ranging from space systems not being used for any militarily useful purposes at all, to satellites providing services to support terrestrial military operations..., to satellites being integral parts of terrestrial weapon systems..., and finally to weapons themselves being deployed in space, weaponization occurs when the upper range of this sequence is reached. At its most extreme, space weaponization would include the deployment in quantity of a full range of space weapons, including satellite-based systems for ballistic missile defense(BMD), ground-and space-based anti-satellite weapons(ASATs), and a variety of space-to-Earth weapons(STEW), and these would play a central role in any type of military operations conducted by their owners.

Key term(s)
  • weaponisation of outer space
  • weaponisation of space
  • space weaponisation
  • weaponisation

French

Domaine(s)
  • Doctrine militaire et planification de défense
  • Guerre spatiale
DEF

Mise en place d'armes dans l'espace.

OBS

arsenalisation de l'espace; arsenalisation : désignations et définition publiées au Journal officiel de la République française le 26 janvier 2025.

Spanish

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Record 2 2023-02-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Air Space Control
OBS

An ACU is similar to an ACC [area control centre] for air mission and air traffic control functions. However, it will exclude SAM/SHORAD [surface-to-air missile/short range air defense] responsibilities as primary functions.

OBS

air control unit; ACU: designations standardized by NATO.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Contrôle de l'espace aérien
OBS

Une ACU est semblable à un ACC [centre de contrôle régional] pour le contrôle des missions aériennes et du trafic aérien. Cependant, elle n'assure pas de fonctions de type missile surface-air (SAM) ou de défense anti-aérienne à courte distance (SHORAD).

OBS

unité de contrôle aérien : désignation normalisée par l'OTAN.

Spanish

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Record 3 2020-11-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Missiles and Rockets
  • Launchers (Astronautics)
CONT

The [Patriot Advanced Capability-3] missile segment upgrade consists of the PAC-3 missile, a highly agile hit-to-kill interceptor, the PAC-3 missile canisters(in four packs), a fire solution computer and an enhanced launcher electronics system(ELES). These elements are integrated into the Patriot system, a high to medium altitude, long-range air defense missile system providing air defense of ground combat forces and high-value assets.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Missiles et roquettes
  • Lanceurs (Astronautique)

Spanish

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Record 4 2020-10-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Military Strategy
  • Missiles and Rockets
CONT

Additionally, countries can deploy countermeasures to increase their missiles’ survivability against laser beams in the boost phase. For example, spinning missiles after take-off can prevent lasers from concentrating enough energy on one location to achieve a kill.... successfully mounting a condensed megawatt laser on a HALE UAV [high-altitude long-endurance unmanned aerial vehicle] could be the "holy grail" of boost phase missile defense...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Stratégie militaire
  • Missiles et roquettes

Spanish

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Record 5 2020-02-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Software
  • Weapon Systems
CONT

The command and control, battle management and communications(C2BMC) system is a software package used by the Missile Defense Agency(MDA) and combatant commands to support and integrate ballistic missile defense systems. C2BMC is responsible for integrating individual BMDS(ballistic missile defense system) components to create a global, networked, and layered missile defense apparatus capable of identifying, tracking, and intercepting ballistic missile threats in all phases of flight.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Logiciels
  • Systèmes d'armes

Spanish

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Record 6 2019-12-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Mathematics
  • Military Strategy
  • Advanced Technology Weapons
CONT

The team developed, tested and deployed sophisticated track processing, sensor and battle management algorithms to optimize how [the command, control, battle management and communications(C2BMC) system] processes data from all the [ballistic missile defense system(BMDS) ] elements, providing increased capacity to handle larger and more complicated threats.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mathématiques informatiques
  • Stratégie militaire
  • Armes de haute technicité

Spanish

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Record 7 2019-07-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computers and Calculators
  • Weapon Systems
CONT

The major ground tests to date have used the same type of battle management computer that will be deployed in the [national missile defense] system.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Ordinateurs et calculateurs
  • Systèmes d'armes

Spanish

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Record 8 2019-04-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Weapon Systems (Air Forces)
  • Missiles and Rockets
DEF

In air and missile defense, that airspace of defined dimensions within which the responsibility for engagement of air and missile threats normally rests with high-altitude surface-to-air missiles.

OBS

high-altitude missile engagement zone; HIMEZ; high missile engagement zone; HIMEZ: designations standardized by NATO.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Systèmes d'armes (Forces aériennes)
  • Missiles et roquettes
OBS

zone d'engagement des missiles à haute altitude; HIMEZ : désignations normalisées par l'OTAN.

Spanish

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Record 9 2015-07-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Flights (Air Transport)
  • Missiles and Rockets
CONT

Under the [Air-Launched Cruise Missile] flyoff rules devised by DoD [Department of Defense], each missile was to make ten free flights and an equal number of "captive-carry" flights. Preceding the free flights, the "captive-carry" flights involved cruise missiles attached to B-52s.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vols (Transport aérien)
  • Missiles et roquettes
CONT

Le programme d'essais comparatifs en vol était fixé par le Pentagone. Il comportait pour chaque concurrent dix vols portés sur B-52, suivis de dix vols libres après lancement. Les B-52 opéraient à partir de la base de l'US Air Force d'Edwards, en Californie. Dans les vols portés, le système de navigation du missile dirigeait l'avion-porteur sur un parcours prédéterminé aboutissant au polygone d'entraînement et d'essais d'Utah.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Vuelos (Transporte aéreo)
  • Misiles y cohetes
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Record 10 2014-12-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Organizations, Administrative Units and Committees
OBS

... the Pentagon's Defense Systems Acquisition Review Council(DSARC) may have met to choose the prime contractor for the US air-launched cruise missile(ALCM).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes, unités administratives et comités
OBS

[...] le DSARC [...] prévoyait de se réunir pour désigner le futur maître d'œuvre de l'ALCM (Air Launched Cruise Missile) [...]

Spanish

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Record 11 2010-11-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Space Weapons
CONT

The controversy surrounding missile defences peaked in the 1980s, when President Reagan announced a "Strategic Defense Initiative"(SDI) to build a space-based missile defence system.

Key term(s)
  • space-based missile defense system
  • space missile defense system
  • space based missile defence system

French

Domaine(s)
  • Armes orbitales
Key term(s)
  • système de défense antimissiles basé dans l'espace
  • système de défense antimissiles spatial

Spanish

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Record 12 2010-10-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of National Programs (Non-Canadian)
  • Defence Planning and Military Doctrine
  • Military Strategy
OBS

The Strategic Defense Initiative(SDI) was a proposal by U. S. President Ronald Reagan on March 23, 1983 to use ground and space-based systems to protect the United States from attack by strategic nuclear ballistic missiles. The initiative focused on strategic defense rather than the prior strategic offense doctrine of mutual assured destruction(MAD). Though it was never fully developed or deployed, the research and technologies of SDI paved the way for some anti-ballistic missile system of today. The Strategic Defense Initiative Organization(SDIO) was set up in 1984 within the United States Department of Defense to oversee the Strategic Defense Initiative. It gained the popular name Star Wars after the 1977 film by George Lucas. Under the administration of President Bill Clinton in 1993, its name was changed to the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization(DMDO) and its emphasis was shifted from national missile defense to theater missile defense; from global to regional coverage. BMDO was renamed to the Missile Defense Agency in 2002.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de programmes nationaux non canadiens
  • Doctrine militaire et planification de défense
  • Stratégie militaire
OBS

L'Initiative de défense stratégique (IDS), dite aussi «Guerre des étoiles», est un projet lancé le 23 mars 1983 par le président Ronald Reagan durant la guerre froide compte tenu d'une part de la poussée soviétique depuis la moitié des années 1970 et de la volonté des États-Unis à vouloir rester inviolables et invincibles sur leur sol et dans leurs zones protégées. «Pour contrer l'horrible menace des missiles soviétiques [...] un programme ambitieux est mis à l'étude pour protéger les États-Unis par un bouclier spatial, identifiant et anéantissant tout missile venu de la haute atmosphère».

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Títulos de programas nacionales no canadienses
  • Doctrina militar y planificación de defensa
  • Estrategia militar
OBS

La Iniciativa de Defensa Estratégica [SDI, por su sigla en inglés], comúnmente conocida como Guerra de las Galaxias (Star Wars) por la popular película de ciencia ficción de su tiempo, fue un sistema propuesto por el presidente estadounidense Ronald Reagan el 23 de marzo de 1983 para utilizar sistemas basados en tierra y en el espacio a fin de defender los Estados Unidos contra un ataque nuclear con misiles balísticos intercontinentales. La iniciativa estaba enfocada más hacia la defensa estratégica que hacia una política ofensiva como la anterior teoría de la Destrucción Mutua Asegurada o MAD.

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Record 13 2010-10-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Various Military Titles
  • Air Communications (Air Forces)
OBS

The NMD [National Missile Defense] In-Flight Interceptor Communications System(IFICS) is a subelement of the BMC3 [Battle Management, Command, Control and Communications] element and would be geographically distributed ground stations that provide communications links to the GBI [ground-based interceptor] for in-flight target and status information between the GBI and the BMC2 [Battle Management, Command and Control].

Key term(s)
  • In-Flight Interceptor Communication System
  • In Flight Interceptor Communications System
  • In Flight Interceptor Communication System

French

Domaine(s)
  • Appellations militaires diverses
  • Communications aériennes (Forces aériennes)
OBS

Il s'agit d'un élément du système BM/C3 [Battle Management, Command, Control and Communications] dont la fonction est de servir d'intermédiaire entre le BM/C3 et les GBI [intercepteurs basés au sol].

OBS

Système de communications de l'intercepteur en vol : traduction non officielle donnée à titre d'information seulement.

Key term(s)
  • Système de communication de l'intercepteur en vol

Spanish

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Record 14 2010-09-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Lasers and Masers
  • Space Weapons
DEF

A constellation of satellites containing multi-megawatt lasers capable of propagating a beam through a large telescope to a target for boost-phase missile intercept and other missions.

CONT

A space-based laser system could provide global, around the clock, near instantaneous ballistic missile defense.

Key term(s)
  • space based laser system

French

Domaine(s)
  • Masers et lasers
  • Armes orbitales

Spanish

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Record 15 2010-09-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • System Names
  • Spacecraft
  • Surveillance, Detection and Reconnaissance (Military)
DEF

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].

OBS

SBIRS operational requirements include four mission areas of missile warning, missile defense, technical intelligence, and battlespace characterization.

OBS

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.

Key term(s)
  • space based infrared system
  • Space based IR System

French

Domaine(s)
  • Noms de systèmes
  • Engins spatiaux
  • Surveillance, détection et reconnaissance (Militaire)
OBS

Système infrarouge basé dans l'espace : traduction non officielle donnée à titre d'information seulement.

Spanish

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Record 16 2010-09-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Government Programs (Non-Canadian)
  • Weapon Systems
  • National and International Security
OBS

The primary mission of National Missile Defense is the defense of the United States(all 50 states) against a threat of a limited strategic ballistic missile attack from a rogue nation. Such a system would also provide some capability against a small accidental or unauthorized launch of strategic ballistic missiles from more nuclear capable states.

OBS

The National Missile Defense architecture consists of ground-based interceptors(GBIs), a Battle Management, Command, Control, and Communications(BMC3) element, X-Band radars(XBRs), upgraded early warning radars(UEWRs) and a Space-Based Infrared System(SBIRS).

Key term(s)
  • national missile defence

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de programmes gouvernementaux non canadiens
  • Systèmes d'armes
  • Sécurité nationale et internationale
OBS

L'architecture du National Missile Defense repose sur des intercepteurs basés au sol (GBIs), un centre de gestion du commandement, de l'engagement tactique et des communications (BMC3), des radars à bande X (XBRs), des radars d'alerte avancée améliorés (UEWRs) et une constellation de satellites de surveillance (SBIRS).

OBS

Il n'existe pas d'appellation ou d'acronyme officiels en français pour désigner le programme américain «National Missile Defense», mais l'appellation proposée ici est répandue.

Key term(s)
  • défense anti-missile nationale
  • défense anti-missiles nationale
  • défense antimissiles nationale
  • défense antimissile nationale

Spanish

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Record 17 2010-09-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Various Military Titles
  • Operations (Air Forces)
OBS

The integrating hardware, software, and organizational structure which will allow the various elements of National Missile Defense to work together as a system and permit the Commander in Chief of the North American Air Defense/United States Space Command(CINCNORAD/CINCSPACE) to control the operations of the integrated NMD system. The two most significant components of the BMC3 system are a Battle Management, Command and Control(BMC2) element that will track targets, plan engagements, and direct and monitor the various facets of a missile defense battle; and an In-flight Interceptor Communications System(IFICS) to link the communications between the BM/C2 and the exoatmospheric kill vehicle(KV) during the latter's flight toward its target.

Key term(s)
  • Battle Management, Command, Control and Communication
  • Battle Management/Command, Control and Communications
  • Battle Management/Command, Control and Communication

French

Domaine(s)
  • Appellations militaires diverses
  • Opérations (Forces aériennes)
OBS

Gestion de l'engagement, commandement, contrôle et communication : traduction non officielle donnée à titre d'information seulement.

Key term(s)
  • Gestion de l'engagement, commandement, contrôle et communication

Spanish

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Record 18 2009-04-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geophysics
  • Aerial-Photography Prospecting
  • Aerospace Equipment (Military)
CONT

The primary mission of the airborne sensor(ABS) mission operations program is to provide airborne electro-optic and infrared sensor capabilities to support the MDA [Missile Defense Agency] and other test activities.

CONT

Aeromagnetic is descriptive of data pertaining to the Earth’s magnetic field which has been collected from an airborne sensor.

OBS

airborne sensor: term used at Natural Resources Canada - Earth Sciences Sector.

PHR

Airborne sensor data, imagery, operator, platform, program, specialist.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géophysique
  • Prospection par photographie aérienne
  • Matériel aérospatial (Militaire)
CONT

Les détecteurs aériens, notamment imagerie vidéo, radar, laser, détection ultrasonique et identification automatique des véhicules (AVI), lancent à présent un défi aux technologies de détection encastrée pour se partager le marché. Les détecteurs aériens sont en général montés sur des structures aériennes ou en bordure de route et, par conséquent, présentent moins de perturbation à la circulation durant leur installation et leur entretien.

CONT

[...] un certain nombre de calculs ou d'expérimentations préliminaires ont été effectués pour tester le principe d'appareils nouveaux envisagés soit par des industries, soit par des organismes : turbimètre ultra-sonore ; détecteur aérien pour hydrocarbure; capteur de pression atmosphérique capacitif; dispositif de localisation de flotteur.

OBS

détecteur aérien : terme en usage à Ressources naturelles Canada - Secteur des sciences de la Terre.

Spanish

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Record 19 2007-10-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Missiles and Rockets
  • Counter-Measures (Military operations)
DEF

A ground-based theater missile defense system designed to protect forward-deployed military forces, population centers, and civilian assets from the entire spectrum of theater ballistic missile attacks.

CONT

THAAD negates incoming ballistic missiles utilizing hit-to-kill technology (i.e., kinetic kill vehicle) and will be capable of intercepting them in either the endoatmospheric or exoatmosphetic.

Key term(s)
  • theater high altitude area defence
  • theatre high altitude area defence
  • theatre high altitude area defense
  • theater high-altitude area defence
  • theatre high-altitude area defense
  • theater high-altitude area defense
  • theater high-altitude area defence system
  • theatre high-altitude area defense system
  • theater high-altitude area defence system

French

Domaine(s)
  • Missiles et roquettes
  • Contre-mesures (Opérations militaires)

Spanish

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Record 20 2007-04-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Counter-Measures (Military operations)
  • Electronic Warfare
  • Radar, Radio Guidance and Goniometry
CONT

After launch, and as the ASCM [anti-ship cruise missile] nears the target, distraction cartridges are fired at ranges up to 4. 5 km to disturb the range and accuracy of the missile's guidance system. However, should the missile have already locked on to the ship in its final attack phase, seduction chaff is deployed to provide point defense and a means sometimes in coordination with other on-board EW [electronic warfare] equipment, to "pull" the seaker away from the ship to the chaff cloud.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Contre-mesures (Opérations militaires)
  • Guerre électronique
  • Radar, radioguidage et radiogoniométrie
OBS

Source : ministère de la Défense nationale.

Spanish

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Record 21 2004-12-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Spacecraft
  • Surveillance, Detection and Reconnaissance (Military)
CONT

During the negotiations of the CTBT [Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty] a number of states recognized the utility of satellite-based sensors for monitoring a CTBT but also noted that the cost of establishing a dedicated CTBT satellite system would be very high.

CONT

... the envisioned NMD [National Missile Defense] includes a satellite-based sensor that would detect the exhaust of a foreign missile immediately after lift-off.

OBS

satellite-based sensor: term extracted from the "Disarmament and Peace Keeping" glossary with the permission of the United Nations Office at Geneva.

Key term(s)
  • satellite based sensor

French

Domaine(s)
  • Engins spatiaux
  • Surveillance, détection et reconnaissance (Militaire)
CONT

Pendant les négociations du TICEN [Traité d'interdiction complète des essais nucléaires], certains États ont reconnu que l'utilisation de capteurs sur satellite faciliterait les activités de surveillance, tout en notant que l'établissement d'un système satellites aux seules fins du TICEN coûterait très cher.

OBS

capteur sur satellite : terme tiré du lexique «Désarmement et Maintien de la Paix» avec l'autorisation de l'Office des Nations Unies à Genève.

Spanish

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Record 22 2004-11-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Types of Aircraft
CONT

The Missile Defense Agency today awarded Lockheed Martin a $40 million design and risk reduction contract as the next phase of the advanced technology concept demonstration to deliver a high altitude airship(HAA) prototype in 2006. The prototype airship will be about 500 feet long, 160 feet in diameter and have a volume of 5. 2 million cubic feet, about 25 times larger than the blimps seen at athletic events. The prototype HAA that Lockheed Martin will develop include sustained operations for one month at 65, 000 feet while providing 10 kilowatts of power to a 4, 000-pound payload. Additionally, the HAA prototype will demonstrate station-keeping and autonomous flight control capabilities.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Types d'aéronefs
CONT

[...] Lockheed Martin] remportait contre son rival Boeing une compétition pour la seconde phase d'études d'un dirigeable stratosphérique. [...] un propotype de 152 m de long, 49 m de diamètre [...] et un volume de 141 000 m³: 25 fois la taille de ceux que l'on voit lors des manifestations sportives, [selon] Lockheed Martin. Ce prototype devra fonctionner à 20 km d'altitude durant un mois, tout en fournissant une puissance de 10 kW à une charge utile de 2 t.

Spanish

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Record 23 2004-09-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Weapon Systems
  • Space Warfare
CONT

The ground-based interceptor is made up of a payload launch vehicle and an exoatmospheric kill vehicle.

OBS

The weapon element that is at the core of the planned National Missile Defense system.

Key term(s)
  • ground based interceptor

French

Domaine(s)
  • Systèmes d'armes
  • Guerre spatiale
CONT

Éléments centraux du système de défense antimissiles [National Missile Defense], les intercepteurs basés au sol (ground based interceptors) se présentent sous la forme d'un missile à trois étages dont le dernier est constitué d'un «véhicule d'impact» (exoatmospheric kill vehicle) destiné à détruire par collision la tête assaillante.

OBS

intercepteur basé au sol : sa mission est d'intercepter les missiles balistiques dans l'espace extra-atmosphérique.

Spanish

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Record 24 2004-08-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Radar, Radio Guidance and Goniometry
  • Surveillance, Detection and Reconnaissance (Military)
DEF

Phased-array surveillance radars used to detect and track ballistic missiles targeted at the United States.

OBS

Software upgrades to these existing early warning radars would provide the capability to support NMD [National Missile Defense] surveillance requirements.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Radar, radioguidage et radiogoniométrie
  • Surveillance, détection et reconnaissance (Militaire)
DEF

[Radar] destiné à détecter et à suivre des missiles balistiques tirés sur les États-Unis afin de permettre le déclenchement et la concentration des radars XBR [radar à bande X].

OBS

Ces systèmes sont en fait principalement des mises à jour de radars existants, qui comprennent deux faces opposées d'une largeur de 31 m chacune.

Spanish

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Record 25 2003-10-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Advanced Technology Weapons
CONT

The HAWK has been modified and tested to intercept short-range ballistic missiles. Because HAWK is a well established system, the current program of upgrades and enhancements is seen as a low risk, near-term missile defense solution against short-range ballistic missiles and other airborne threats such as aircraft or unmanned aerial vehicles. In this role, HAWK can be considered a lower-tier missile defense system.

Key term(s)
  • low tier system

French

Domaine(s)
  • Armes de haute technicité
CONT

[...] les Etats-Unis développent des programmes de défense antimissile de théâtre regroupés sous le terme de Theater Missile Defense (TMD). Parmi eux, il faut distinguer les programmes de défense «couche basse» (lower-tier systems), qui correspondent à la défense de point, et les programmes de défense «couche haute» (upper-tier systems), qui correspondent à la défense de zone.

Spanish

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Record 26 2003-09-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Space Weapons
CONT

"Stating the dangers, costs, and fallacies of the space-based weapons system has not stopped them from being researched and developed or tested against the ever changing list of enemies, whether it is called the SDI [Strategic Defense Initiative], NMD [National Missile Defense], BMD [Ballistic Missile Defense] or Star Wars.

Key term(s)
  • space based weapon system
  • space based weapons system

French

Domaine(s)
  • Armes orbitales

Spanish

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Record 27 2002-12-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Missiles and Rockets
  • Ballistics
  • Astronautics
CONT

The Athena test missile was developed to support the Air Force's Advanced Ballistic Missile ReEntry System(ABRES). The program was intended to gain an understanding of re-entry phenomena and the feasibility of advanced re-entry concepts. Athena was a low-cost, solid fueled missile used by the Department of Defense to test full scale and subscale models of advanced reentry systems.

Key term(s)
  • advanced ballistic missile re-entry system

French

Domaine(s)
  • Missiles et roquettes
  • Balistique
  • Astronautique

Spanish

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Record 28 2002-07-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of International Programs
  • Meteorology
OBS

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.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de programmes internationaux
  • Météorologie
Key term(s)
  • Programme de satellites météorologiques de défense

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Títulos de programas internacionales
  • Meteorología
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Record 29 2001-07-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Military Strategy
DEF

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.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Stratégie militaire

Spanish

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Record 30 2001-06-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Types of Aircraft
  • Air Defence
CONT

The Supersonic Miniature Air-Launched Interceptor(MALI) program will demonstrate an inexpensive supersonic air platform with a low cost uncooled infrared(IR) sensor to provide cruise missile defense by exploiting large rear aspect IR signatures and overtaking incoming missiles from the rear.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Types d'aéronefs
  • Défense aérienne
CONT

[...] Northrop Grumman dérive du Mald un intercepteur économique de 100 km de portée, désigné Mali (Miniature Air Launched Interceptor), destiné à détruire des missiles de croisière rustiques. Globalement, l'avionneur américain a repris la cellule en composites du Mald et le moteur tandis que la charge utile électronique cède la place à un autodirecteur infrarouge et une charge militaire de missile sol-air très courte portée Stinger.

OBS

Mali devrait s'écrire MALI.

Spanish

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Record 31 2001-02-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Missiles and Rockets
  • Space Weapons
CONT

A goal of this project is to have an adequate basis for defense activation doctrine and for design of command interfaces in a ballistic missile defense system.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Missiles et roquettes
  • Armes orbitales

Spanish

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Record 32 2001-02-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aeroindustry
  • Missiles and Rockets
DEF

An air-to-surface missile carried by military aircraft for air defense suppression purposes or to strike primary targets. Permits aircraft to attack multiple targets without physically penetrating to any of them, thus reducing fuel requirements and dangers to crews.

OBS

... a smaller version of the MW-1 pod was integrated with a stand-off guided missile to deliver various types of submunitions, optimized for the specific targets being engaged.

OBS

stand-off missile: term(s) extracted from the "Disarmament and Peace Keeping" glossary with the permission of the United Nations Office at Geneva.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Constructions aéronautiques
  • Missiles et roquettes
CONT

La société avait déjà étudié auparavant avec McDonnell Douglas toute une famille de missiles pour tir à distance de sécurité et avait abouti à une configuration qui permettrait, à l'aide d'un conteneur de type MW-1 de dimensions réduites, de lancer sur les divers objectifs des groupes de munitions «optimalisées».

OBS

missile lancé à distance de sécurité : terme(s) tiré(s) du lexique «Désarmement et Maintien de la Paix» avec l'autorisation de l'Office des Nations Unies à Genève.

Spanish

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Record 33 2000-10-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Missiles and Rockets
CONT

BAe's proposed vertical-launch version of the Seawolf close-in defense missile. The complete missile including its booster, is 3 m long, has a 0. 67 m wingspan and weighs 130 kg.

Key term(s)
  • close-in defence missile

French

Domaine(s)
  • Missiles et roquettes
CONT

BAe propose une version lancée à la verticale de son missile de défense rapprochée Seawolf.

Spanish

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Record 34 2000-10-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Combat Systems (Naval Forces)
  • Missiles and Rockets
CONT

... the Oto Melara Vanessa close-in missile defense system, based on the Breda Sparviero subsonic anti-tank missile and originally planned for the Garibaldi.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Systèmes de combat (Forces navales)
  • Missiles et roquettes
Key term(s)
  • système de missile de défense très rapprochée

Spanish

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Record 35 2000-10-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Missiles and Rockets
CONT

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.

OBS

closely spaced basing; Dense Pack: terms extracted from the "Disarmament and Peace Keeping" glossary with the permission of the United Nations Office at Geneva.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Missiles et roquettes
CONT

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.

OBS

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.

Spanish

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Record 36 2000-09-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Space Weapons
  • Missiles and Rockets
DEF

A system designed to destroy strategic ballistic missiles or their warheads before they reach their targets.

CONT

To develop a ballistic missile defense(BMD) system with comprehensive defensive coverage against attacks, a system characterized by both ground-based and space-based elements.

OBS

ballistic missile defence system; anti-ballistic missile defence system: terms and definition extracted from the "Disarmament and Peace Keeping" glossary with the permission of the United Nations Office at Geneva.

Key term(s)
  • antiballistic missile defense system
  • antiballistic missile defence system
  • ABM defence system
  • anti-ballistic missile defense system
  • ABM defense system

French

Domaine(s)
  • Armes orbitales
  • Missiles et roquettes
OBS

système de défense antimissile balistique; système de défense ABM : termes tirés du lexique «Désarmement et Maintien de la Paix» avec l'autorisation de l'Office des Nations Unies à Genève.

Key term(s)
  • système de défense antimissiles balistiques

Spanish

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Record 37 1998-08-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Spacecraft
  • Space Weapons
CONT

Defense satellites must detect the unique infrared radiation of a missile launch, track the missiles, distinguish real ones form decoys and decide if they are going to attack.

CONT

defender satellites that could protect battle stations have been studied at least a decade.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Engins spatiaux
  • Armes orbitales

Spanish

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Record 38 1986-03-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Weapon Systems
  • Various Proper Names
  • Missiles and Rockets
OBS

A traditional terminal defense system oriented toward city defense. It used several phased-array radars, including the Perimeter Acquisition Radar(PAR) and the Missile Site Radar(MSR), and a high-acceleration, nuclear-armed reentry interceptor, the Sprint. This system was studied in the mid-1960s and represented a substantial advance over Nike-Zeus. Components of the system were developed and tested.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Systèmes d'armes
  • Appellations diverses
  • Missiles et roquettes

Spanish

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Record 39 1984-08-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Missiles and Rockets
CONT

The category 3 medium-range AA [anti-aircraft] missile is of Italian design and is being developed in two versions, one with a self-propelled launcher unit for the defense of major combat formations, and the other having a towed launcher with an integrated 40 mm gun for the defense of permanent and semi-permanent installations in rear areas.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Missiles et roquettes
CONT

Le système d'arme missile sol-air de la catégorie 3 (moyenne portée) est de conception italienne; il sera réalisé en deux versions, l'une sur châssis automoteur, pour la défense des grandes unités de combat, l'autre associée à un canon de 40 mm sur une remorque, pour la défense des installations fixes ou semi-mobiles de l'arrière.

Spanish

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Record 40 1984-08-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Missiles and Rockets
CONT

The category 3 medium-range AA [anti-aircraft] missile is of Italian design and is being developed in two versions, one with a self-propelled launcher unit for the defense of major combat formations, and the other having a towed launcher with an integrated 40 mm gun for the defense of permanent and semi-permanent installations in rear areas.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Missiles et roquettes
CONT

Le système d'arme missile sol-air de la catégorie 3 (moyenne portée) est de conception italienne; il sera réalisé en deux versions, l'une sur châssis automoteur, pour la défense des grandes unités de combat, l'autre associée à un canon de 40 mm sur une remorque, pour la défense des installations fixes ou semi-mobiles de l'arrière.

Spanish

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Record 41 1984-08-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Missiles and Rockets
CONT

The category 3 medium-range AA [anti-aircraft] missile is of Italian design and is being developed in two versions, one with a self-propelled launcher unit for the defense of major combat formations, and the other having a towed launcher with an integrated 40 mm gun for the defense of permanent and semi-permanent installations in rear areas.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Missiles et roquettes
CONT

Le système d'arme missile sol-air de la catégorie 3 (moyenne portée) est de conception italienne; il sera réalisé en deux versions, l'une sur châssis automoteur, pour la défense des grandes unités de combat, l'autre associée à un canon de 40 mm sur une remorque, pour la défense des installations fixes ou semi-mobiles de l'arrière.

Spanish

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Record 42 1981-11-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aeroindustry
CONT

U. S. Army technicians and other key personnel who will serve as U. S. Roland instructors have completed their training on how to operate and maintain the all-weather air defense missile system.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Constructions aéronautiques
CONT

Les techniciens et cadres de l'U.S. Army qui serviront d'instructeurs pour le Roland américain ont achevé leur formation à l'utilisation et à la maintenance de ce système de missile de défense aérienne tout-temps.

Spanish

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