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1Missile guidance — A guided bomb strikes a practice target Missile guidance refers to a variety of methods of guiding a missile or a guided bomb to its intended target. The missile s target accuracy is a critical factor for its effectiveness. Guidance systems… …
2Missile designation — The U.S. Department of Defense established a missile and rocket designation sequence,[1] which is used in all weapons of the kind produced in the USA. Contents 1 Explanation 2 Code 3 Prefixes …
3rocket 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… …
4Ballistic Missile Early Warning System — The United States Air Force Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS) was the first operational ballistic missile detection radar. The original system was built in 1959 and could provide long range warning of a ballistic missile attack over… …
5R-36 (missile) — Infobox Weapon is missile=yes name=R 36; NATO Reporting name: SS 18 Satan caption=Senator Richard Lugar inspects an SS 18 ICBM being readied for decommission under the Nunn Lugar Program origin= Soviet Union type=Intercontinental ballistic… …
6Nimrod (missile) — Nimrod missile in Paris Air Show Nimrod is a long range air to surface and surface to surface missile developed by Israel Aerospace Industries. While primarily designed for anti tank use, it provides standoff strike capability against a variety… …
7Nevada National Security Site — Nevada Test Site November 1951 nuclear test at Nevada Test Site. Test is shot Dog from Operation Buster, with a yield of 21 kilotonnes of TNT (88 TJ). It was the f …
8international relations — a branch of political science dealing with the relations between nations. [1970 75] * * * Study of the relations of states with each other and with international organizations and certain subnational entities (e.g., bureaucracies and political… …
9Project Nike — Nike missile family on display at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama. From left, MIM 14 Nike Hercules, MIM 23 Hawk (front), MGM 29 Sergeant (back), LIM 49 Spartan, MGM 31 Pershing, MGM 18 Lacrosse, MIM 3 Nike Ajax. Project Nike was a U.S. Army project,… …
10History of radar — The history of radar starts with experiments by Heinrich Hertz in the late 19th century that showed that radio waves were reflected by metallic objects. This possibility was suggested in James Clerk Maxwell s seminal work on electromagnetism.… …
