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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 2021-04-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Missiles and Rockets
  • Radar, Radio Guidance and Goniometry
CONT

Firing a shell from a gun at an aircraft is very different from launching an active radar-guided missile at a ship, which is very different from firing a passive radar guided missile at an incoming missile.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Missiles et roquettes
  • Radar, radioguidage et radiogoniométrie
CONT

Tirer un obus avec un canon sur un aéronef est très différent de lancer un missile à guidage radar actif vers un navire, ce qui à son tour est très différent de tirer un missile à guidage radar passif.

Spanish

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Record 3 2020-12-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Weapon Systems (Naval Forces)
  • Target Acquisition
CONT

If the ship is attacked, MASS [Multi-Ammunition Softkill System] fires decoy ammunition diverting the incoming missile from its intended target.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Systèmes d'armes (Forces navales)
  • Acquisition d'objectif

Spanish

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Record 4 2004-08-09

English

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

Once deployed, SBIRS-High will be able to detect an enemy missile just after it has been launched; track the missile as it progresses along its flight path; figure out the exact moment at which the missile deploys its nuclear, chemical, or biological warhead; and provide reliable data to defence systems(air, land, sea, or space) for their attack on the incoming warhead.

Key term(s)
  • Space Based Infrared System-High
  • Space-Based Infrared System High
  • Space Based Infrared System High

French

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

Les satellites SBIRS High seront chargés de la détection des tirs de missiles et de la poursuite transhorizon et devront fournir aux systèmes de commandement et de contrôle les premières estimations de trajectoire.

Spanish

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Record 5 2002-01-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Missiles and Rockets
CONT

... it is hard to see why America should be prevented from building a shield to defend itself and its friends against incoming missiles from rogue states ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Missiles et roquettes
CONT

On parvient à détecter un missile en approche par sa minuscule traînée de fumée.

Spanish

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Record 6 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 7 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 8 1987-03-10

English

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

System designed to intercept incoming missiles during the terminal phase of their trajectories at an altitude of around 4, 000 ft. The system includes a well-hardened radar of modest dimensions and a small, inertially guided interceptor missile.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Missiles et roquettes
  • Armes orbitales

Spanish

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Record 9 1982-11-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aeroindustry
CONT

The LSI TACAN Guidance Augmentation System was the first [Lear Siegler] Astronics [Division] drone autopilot with homing capability, enabling the Drone to simulate a variety of incoming anti-ship missile threats.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Constructions aéronautiques
CONT

Le système d'augmentation de guidage LSI TACAN a été le premier pilote automatique pour engin téléguidé d'Astronics à offrir un guidage radio vers une station émettrice, permettant à des engins téléguidés de simuler une grande variété d'attaques par missiles anti-navires.

Spanish

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