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MISSILE TRACKING RADAR [6 records]

Record 1 2025-02-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sea Operations (Military)
  • Radar, Radio Guidance and Goniometry
CONT

After the incoming target aircraft has approached within attacking distance, the target was handed off to the HIPIR for final tracking. Upon launch of the Hawk missile, the target was illuminated by the HIPIR. The reflected radar signal is the homing signal for the launched missile.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Opérations en mer (Militaire)
  • Radar, radioguidage et radiogoniométrie

Spanish

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Record 2 2024-11-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Target Acquisition
  • Demolition (Military)
CONT

When the missile is being tracked, the missile tracking radar provides the computer with the missile present position information needed for the computer to determine the predicted kill point. The missile tracking radar continues to supply the computer with missile present position information and transmits the commands from the computer necessary to guide the missile to the kill point and cause warhead detonation.

OBS

predicted kill point; PKP: designations standardized by NATO.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Acquisition d'objectif
  • Destruction (Militaire)
OBS

point d'impact prévu : désignation normalisée par l'OTAN.

Spanish

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Record 3 2007-08-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Weapon Systems
CONT

The firing section is based upon the fire control centre(including the tracking and illumination radar and the control unit) and the missile launchers, each with 6 read fire missiles.

Key term(s)
  • fire control center

French

Domaine(s)
  • Systèmes d'armes
CONT

La section de tir comprend un centre de conduite de tir (avec notamment les radars de poursuite et d'illumination et l'unité de conduite) ainsi que les lanceurs équipés chacun de six missiles prêts à tirer.

OBS

Reproduit du lexique «Disarmament and Peace Keeping/Désarmement et Maintien de la Paix» avec l'autorisation de l'Office des Nations Unies à Genève.

Spanish

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Record 4 2005-11-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of International Programs
  • Surveillance, Detection and Reconnaissance (Military)
  • Spacecraft
OBS

Mission : Space surveillance is a critical part of USSPACECOM's mission and involves detecting, tracking, cataloging and identifying man-made objects orbiting Earth, i. e. active/inactive satellites, spent rocket bodies, or fragmentation debris. Space surveillance accomplishes the following : Predict when and where a decaying space object will re-enter the Earth's atmosphere; Prevent a returning space object, which to radar looks like a missile, from triggering a false alarm in missile-attack warning sensors of the U. S. and other countries; Chart the present position of space objects and plot their anticipated orbital paths; Detect new man-made objects in space; Produce a running catalog of man-made space objects; Determine which country owns a re-entering space object; Inform NASA whether or not objects may interfere with the space shuttle and Russian Mir space station orbits.

Key term(s)
  • United States Space Surveillance System

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de programmes internationaux
  • Surveillance, détection et reconnaissance (Militaire)
  • Engins spatiaux
OBS

Depuis plusieurs décennies, les États-Unis disposent d'un réseau de surveillance spatiale (Space Surveillance Network (SSN), contrôlé par le United States Space Command) qui leur permet de repérer, de suivre, de cataloguer et d'identifier tous les objets de plus de 10 cm qui se trouvent en orbite terrestre, en s'intéressant plus particulièrement aux satellites opérationnels.

Key term(s)
  • Réseau de Surveillance spatiale
  • Réseau de Surveillance spatiale des États-Unis

Spanish

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Record 5 2003-02-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Launching and Space Maneuvering
CONT

The missile was roll-stabilized so that the computer could know the complete orientation of the missile in space.... a transponder was found necessary to assure firm radar tracking through the boost and turn-over phase of the trajectory and at extreme ranges where skin tracking would provide only a marginal signal.

Key term(s)
  • turnover phase

French

Domaine(s)
  • Lancement et manœuvres dans l'espace

Spanish

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Record 6 1978-07-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Radar, Radio Guidance and Goniometry
OBS

Although missile seeker usually refers to the infra-red tracking head on a missile, a search radar used to detect missiles is sometimes called a missile seeker.

OBS

Information obtained from DEW, and DEEM-4, NDHQ.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Radar, radioguidage et radiogoniométrie
OBS

veille anti-missile.

Spanish

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