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ANTI-BALLISTIC MISSILE [1 record]

Record 1 2019-11-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Missiles and Rockets
  • Air Defence
DEF

A missile designed to acquire, intercept and destroy an enemy strategic/tactical ballistic missile or its re-entry vehicles in flight.

OBS

antiballistic missile; ABM: designations standardized by NATO and officially approved by the Department of National Defence and the Canadian Forces.

OBS

anti-ballistic missile missile; ABM missile: designations extracted from the "Disarmament and Peace Keeping" glossary with the permission of the United Nations Office in Geneva.

Key term(s)
  • antiballistic missile missile

French

Domaine(s)
  • Missiles et roquettes
  • Défense aérienne
DEF

Missile défensif porteur d'une charge explosive nucléaire ou non, destiné à détruire ou neutraliser un missile balistique adverse.

OBS

missile antimissile balistique; MAMB : désignations uniformisées par le ministère de la Défense nationale et les Forces canadiennes.

OBS

missile anti-missile balistique : désignation uniformisée par le Groupe de travail de terminologie des munitions.

OBS

missile antimissile balistique; ABM : désignations normalisées par l'OTAN.

OBS

missile antimissile balistique; missile ABM : désignations reproduites du lexique «Disarmament and Peace Keeping/Désarmement et Maintien de la Paix» avec l'autorisation de l'Office des Nations Unies à Genève.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Misiles y cohetes
  • Defensa aérea
CONT

La categoría de los misiles suelo-aire incluye los misiles antimisiles (ABM en la nomenclatura internacional) que, como lo indica su nombre, se destinan a destruir los grandes misiles suelo-suelo (ICBM [misil balístico intercontinental] e IRBM [misil balístico de mediano alcance]) en la zona del espacio extraterrestre (a altitudes de 200 a 300 km) donde alcanzan su máxima elevación.

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