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1Missile Defense Agency — MDA Agency overview Formed 2002 Preceding agencies …
2Missile defense — The Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System. A RIM 161 Standard Missile 3 anti ballistic missile is launched from USS Shiloh, a US Navy Ticonderoga class cruiser …
3missile — n. 1) to fire, launch; guide a missile 2) to intercept a missile 3) an air to air; air to ground, air to surface; antiaircraft, ground to air, surface to air; antimissile; ballistic; cruise; ground to ground, surface to surface; guided;… …
4missile — noun 1 explosive weapon ADJECTIVE ▪ long range, medium range, short range ▪ ballistic, cruise, guided, heat seeking, laser guided ▪ …
5National missile defense — This article is about systems to shield an entire country. For the ground based US missile defense system, see Ground Based Midcourse Defense. A Payload Launch Vehicle (PLV) carrying a prototype exoatmospheric kill vehicle is launched from Meck… …
6rocket and missile system — ▪ weapons system Introduction any of a variety of weapons systems that deliver explosive warheads to their targets by means of rocket propulsion. Rocket is a general term used broadly to describe a variety of jet propelled missiles… …
7Integrated Guided Missile Development Program — An Agni II during the Republic Day Parade in 2004 The Integrated Guided Missile Development Program (IGMDP) was an Indian Ministry of Defence program between the early 1980s and 2007 for the development of a comprehensive range of missiles,… …
8Intercontinental ballistic missile — An intercontinental ballistic missile, or ICBM, is a long range (greater than 5,500 km or 3,500 miles) ballistic missile typically designed for nuclear weapons delivery, that is, delivering one or more nuclear warheads. Due to their great range… …
9Pacific Missile Range Facility — Located in the State of Hawaii on the western shores of Kauai, the Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF) at Barking Sands Airport codes|BKH|PHBK is the world s largest instrumented, multi dimensional testing and training missile range. US… …
10Anti-ballistic missile — An anti ballistic missile (ABM) is a missile designed to counter ballistic missiles (a missile for missile defense). A ballistic missile is used to deliver nuclear, chemical, biological or conventional warheads in a ballistic flight trajectory.… …
