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LAUNCH ATTACK [15 records]

Record 1 2022-03-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Special-Language Phraseology
  • War and Peace (International Law)
DEF

Begin hostilities or start warfare with a country or state.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité
  • Guerre et paix (Droit international)
CONT

[...] s'abstenir de lancer une attaque dont on peut attendre qu'elle cause incidemment des pertes en vies humaines dans la population civile, des blessures aux personnes civiles, des dommages aux biens de caractère civil, ou une combinaison de ces pertes et dommages, qui seraient excessifs par rapport à l'avantage militaire concret et direct attendu.

Spanish

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Record 2 2021-02-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • IT Security
  • Risks and Threats (Security)
CONT

The smurf attack is named after the source code employed to launch the attack(smurf. c). The smurf attack employs forged ICMP [Informal Conflict Management Program] echo request packets and the direction of those packets to IP network broadcast addresses.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sécurité des TI
  • Risques et menaces (Sécurité)
CONT

L'attaque par rebond […] est une attaque de déni de service avec amplification. L'ordinateur de l'attaquant envoie un paquet spécialement modifié à l'adresse de diffusion d'un routeur. Ce routeur diffuse le paquet à tous les équipements et ordinateurs de son réseau. Ces derniers répondent à l'adresse de la source (celle spécialement modifiée par l'attaquant).

Spanish

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Record 3 2019-04-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Types of Ships and Boats
  • Submarines (Naval Forces)
CONT

Russia's nuclear submarines include ballistic missile submarines that are designed to launch nuclear weapons, guided cruise missile submarines, torpedo attack submarines, and special mission purpose submarines.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Types de bateaux
  • Sous-marins (Forces navales)

Spanish

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Record 4 2010-12-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Types of Ships and Boats
  • Sea Operations (Military)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Types de bateaux
  • Opérations en mer (Militaire)

Spanish

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Record 5 2010-11-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cycling
CONT

Breakaway... occurs when one or several racers suddenly accelerate to put a distance between themselves and the peloton.

CONT

Thomas said the guys on the road bikes took off "like a rocket." ... "When they accelerate, they always drop the rest of the pack."

OBS

Technique/tactics.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cyclisme
CONT

Tu peux démarrer 20 fois et connaître l'échec, ou une seule fois et être and le «bon coup». Tu peux attaquer dans les côtes sans résultat, ou faire la décision dans une descente.

OBS

Technique/tactique.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Ciclismo
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Record 6 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 7 2010-04-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • IT Security
  • Social Movements
  • Political Science (General)
DEF

An individual who performs an act of hacktivism.

CONT

A hacktivist uses the same tools and techniques as a hacker, but does so in order to disrupt services and bring attention to a political or social cause. For example, one might leave a highly visible message on the home page of a Web site that gets a lot of traffic or which embodies a point-of-view that is being opposed. Or one might launch a denial-of-service attack to disrupt traffic to a particular site.

OBS

Hacktivism is the act of hacking, or breaking into a computer system, for a politically or socially motivated purpose.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sécurité des TI
  • Mouvements sociaux
  • Sciences politiques (Généralités)
DEF

Militant qui mobilise ses connaissances informatiques contre la mondialisation, les multinationales et en faveur de la défense des internautes.

OBS

Ce néologisme est le fruit de la fusion des termes anglais «hacker» et «activist».

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Seguridad de IT
  • Movimientos sociales
  • Ciencias políticas (Generalidades)
CONT

Somos una red de hacktivistas que nace de la comunidad de hacklabs y hackmeeting de la Península Ibérica. Este espacio surgió para coordinar nuestras acciones a nivel global, debatir estrategias, compartir recursos y sincronizar movimientos de creación y resistencia hacia una sociedad libre con unas tecnologias libres.

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Record 8 2008-01-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Arms Control
CONT

The GBU-15 may be used in either a direct or an indirect attack mode. In a direct attack mode, the pilot selects a target before launch, locks the weapon guidance system onto it and launches the weapon.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Contrôle des armements

Spanish

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Record 9 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 10 2004-04-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Military Tactics
  • CBRNE Weapons
DEF

The launch of a surprise attack to considerably weaken or destroy an adversary's military installations or nuclear forces and thus severely reduce its ability to attack or retaliate.

OBS

first strike; disarming attack: term(s) extracted from the "Disarmament and Peace Keeping" glossary with the permission of the United Nations Office at Geneva.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tactique militaire
  • Armes CBRNE
DEF

Attaque qui vise à détruire les forces nucléaires de l'adversaire avant qu'il ne puisse riposter.

OBS

première frappe; attaque neutralisante : 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 11 2002-04-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Missiles and Rockets
CONT

As an attack craft the SF 300 may have a 76 mm gun in the forward position, eight surface-to-surface Harpoon missiles in the second container position on the aft deck and six vertical launch Seasparrow surface-to-air missiles in the third position, while wire-guided torpedoes may be fitted on the foredeck.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Missiles et roquettes
CONT

En configuration attaque, l'armement comporte en plus huit Harpoon anti-navires, six missiles surface-air Seasparrow à lancement vertical du pont arrière et éventuellement des torpilles filoguidées à l'avant.

Spanish

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Record 12 2000-07-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Land Mines
DEF

A programmable or remotely controlled mine that is capable of being switched between standby and armed states one or more times. It is actuated by an electronic sensor device which cannot differentiate between friendly and enemy targets. It will consist of a single shot shaped charge, which may be contained in a launch projectile, and will be capable of top, horizontal or bottom attack. Most mines of this type will self-neutralise/destruct after a pre-selected period of time.

Key term(s)
  • third-generation mine

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mines terrestres
DEF

Mine programmable ou télécommandée qui peut être activée ou désactivée une ou plusieurs fois, et déclenchée par un dispositif de mise de feu qui ne peut distinguer les objectifs amis ou ennemis. Elle utilise une charge formée à coup unique qui peut être contenue dans un projectile, et qui agit par-dessus, par-dessous ou à l'horizontale. La plupart des mines de ce type s'autoneutralisent ou s'autodétruisent après une période prédéterminée.

OBS

mine de troisième génération : terme et définition uniformisés par le Groupe de travail de terminologie du génie.

Spanish

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Record 13 1999-06-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Missiles and Rockets
OBS

The JSOW is an air-to-ground weapon designed to attack a variety of targets during day, night and adverse weather conditions. JSOW will enhance aircraft survivability by providing the capability for launch aircraft to standoff outside the range of most target area surface-to-air threat systems. JSOW is a family of weapons. The Unitary variant acquisition program is a significant success story, yielding substantial savings over the life of the program.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Missiles et roquettes

Spanish

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Record 14 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 15 1998-02-10

English

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

[MLRS: multiple launch rocket system].

Key term(s)
  • minimum size of target to attack with multiple launch rocket system

French

Domaine(s)
  • Stratégie militaire
  • Missiles et roquettes
OBS

[LRM : lance-roquettes multiple].

Spanish

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