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• AIM-9 Sidewinder [r]: The first operational heat-seeking air-to-air missile, this weapon, with five generations of improvements, has been in service for over fifty years. ^[e]
• Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data System [r]: A U.S. Army and Marine artillery fire control system that cooperates with Navy and Air Force fire control systems, as well as British, French, Italian and German artillery systems. ^[e]
• Aerospace engineering [r]: The branch of engineering that concerns aircraft, spacecraft, and related topics. ^[e]
• Air defense artillery [r]: A combat arms branch of the United States Army, responsible for defending ground forces and the continental United States against aircraft and missile attack ^[e]
• Anti-air warfare [r]: In the context of naval warfare, the mission of defending against aircraft and missiles, from platforms under naval command and control, possibly in coordination with other services and possibly defending land as well as sea areas. ^[e]
• Anti-aircraft artillery [r]: A general term for guns that can elevate to high angles and shoot accurately at aircraft, using visual, electro-optical, or radar guidance. ^[e]
• Anti-ballistic missile [r]: A guided missile that is capable of destroying a ballistic missile, usually by "hit-to-kill" physical collision during boost phase, midcourse, or terminal phase of the target's trajectory ^[e]
• Anti-cruise missile missile [r]: A somewhat loosely defined category of weapons for defending against the highly variable flight paths of cruise missiles; such weapons may have optimizations against cruise missile carrier aircraft, against cruise missiles with a high-altitude atmospheric midcourse, against a terrain-following low-altitude midcourse, or popups and zigzags in the final attack on a ship ^[e]
• Anti-satellite missile [r]: A weapon, launched from inside the atmosphere, intended to destroy an orbiting satellite. ^[e]
• Atlas (missile) [r]: The first operational intercontinental ballistic missile fielded by the United States, derivatives of which are still used as space launch vehicles ^[e]
• Atmospheric reentry [r]: The movement of human-made or natural objects as they enter the atmosphere of a planet from outer space, in the case of Earth from an altitude above the 'edge of space.' ^[e]
• Ballistic missile defense [r]: A combination of sensors, command and control systems, and missile/warhead kill mechanisms that protect a region, or, in the case of the U.S., theaters of operations as well as the nation proper. ^[e]
• Battle of Britain [r]: Those German offensive air strikes, and British defense, with which the Germans had intended to establish air supremacy for their proposed invasion of Britain ^[e]
• Counter-rocket, artillery and mortar [r]: Military equipment and techniques to detect unguided rockets, artillery shells, and mortar rounds in flight, warn friendly forces that are threatened, and, with new methods, intercept and destroy the projectiles before they can do damage ^[e]
• Electro-optical MASINT [r]: A subdiscipline of measurement and signature intelligence (MASINT), which has similarities to but complements imagery intelligence (IMINT); it does not form images, but validates them and produces information on phenomena that emit, absorb, or reflect electromagnetic energy in the infrared, visible light, or ultraviolet spectra, where the value is knowledge of the type of energy detected ^[e]
• Firearm [r]: Device, often designed to be used as a weapon, which projects either single or multiple projectiles at high velocity through a controlled explosion. ^[e]
• Fourteenth Air Force [r]: The United States Air Force organization that controls military satellite launch and operations for the Air Force Space Command, and performs space support operations for the United States Strategic Command and probably the National Reconnaissance Office ^[e]
• Go-onto-location-in-space [r]: A weapons guidance paradigm in which the weapon guides itself to a specific set of geographic coordinates and activates its warhead, rather than sensing and tracking a target ^[e]
• Guided missile [r]: A weapon that flies through air or space, under its own power, which adjusts its course to hit its target. ^[e]
• Gulf War [r]: The conflict started by the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990, and ended with the liberation of Kuwait and major damage to Iraqi forces, by a US-led UN coalition in 1991. ^[e]
• Hit-to-kill [r]: The infliction of damage by a weapon, which does not depend on other than mechanical energy transfer. At the low end, it can be as simple as a bullet hitting a nonmoving target, and at the high end, it can include the immense energies of a collision between an incoming ballistic missile and an intercept vehicle. It is a subset of kinetic kill, which includes explosives and other physically destructive "hard kill" mechanisms. ^[e]
• Israeli Defense Forces [r]: The combined ground, air, and naval armed forces of the state of Israel ^[e]
• Life extension [r]: Medical and non-medical attempts to slow down or reverse the processes of aging, to extend both the maximum and average lifespan. ^[e]
• Luftwaffe [r]: The German Air Force, both the current and WWII organization; the current usage includes the forces after German unification ^[e]
• M109 howitzer [r]: A family of self-propelled 155mm howitzers developed by the U.S. Army ^[e]
• M26 (rocket) [r]: A series of long-range (20mi/32 km-28mi/45km) unguided rockets fired by the M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System, carrying 518 to 644 cluster submunitions; retired due to an excessive number of submunitions failing to detonate and becoming effective minefields ^[e]
• M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System [r]: A fully-tracked artillery firing platform that carries two munitions pods, containing either six rockets or short-range surface-to-surface missiles, or one MGM-140 ATACMS tactical ballistic missile ^[e]
• M30 (rocket) [r]: An aerodynamically steered, rocket-propelled surface-to-surface missile, carrying cluster submunitions, fired by the M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System at greater ranges than the M109 howitzer ^[e]
• MGM-140 ATACMS [r]: A short- to medium-range ballistic missile, developed by the U.S. Army to engage high-value ground targets beyond the range of cannon, yet under the direct control of ground forces commanders; fired by the M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System ^[e]
• MIM-104 Patriot [r]: Missile originally developed for medium-to-high altitude aircraft interception (SAM) use, which, while retaining that capability, is now optimized as an anti-ballistic missile (ABM) for relatively small but critical areas. The SAM versions have explosive warheads but the ABM is hit-to-kill. ^[e]
• Midcourse [r]: That part of the journey of an unmanned vehicle, or a manned vehicle on autopilot, between launch/takeoff/boost phase and final approach/terminal guidance ^[e]
• Missile Technology Control Regime [r]: Informal and voluntary association of countries which share the goals of non-proliferation of unmanned delivery systems capable of delivering weapons of mass destruction. ^[e]
• Missile defense [r]: When a "missile" is considered anything projected, with hostile intent, against a target, the defense problem is far greater than ballistic missile defense, including defense against cruise missiles and counter-rocket, artillery and mortar systems; integrated air defense systems become very complex when facing aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles, and guided missiles ^[e]
• Missile warning receiver [r]: An electronic warfare subsystem that detects the thermal energy, or other signatures, of a missile launch or its flight, in order to take defensive measures ^[e]
• Nuclear weapon [r]: A weapon that produces extremely powerful explosions from principles involving subatomic particle reactions, rather than the chemical reactions among atoms that power conventional explosives ^[e]
• Operation DESERT STORM [r]: That part of the Gulf War, beginning with the first air strikes at 02:00 local time, 17 January 1991, until the main ground assault into Kuwait, Operation DESERT SABRE ^[e]
• Outer space [r]: The relatively empty regions of the universe outside the atmospheres of celestial bodies. ^[e]
• People's Liberation Army [r]: The collective term for all the military forces of the People's Republic of China ^[e]
• Precision-guided munition [r]: A powered or unpowered weapon that adjusts its flight path to hit a specific target ^[e]
• RC-135 COBRA BALL [r]: A United States Air Force aircraft for collecting measurement and signature intelligence, primarily on foreign missiles. A COBRA BALL aircraft can be converted to a RC-135 RIVET JOINT. ^[e]
• RC-135 RIVET JOINT [r]: A United States Air Force long-range aircraft for collecting communications intelligence ^[e]
• RIM-156 Standard SM-2 [r]: Intended to be launched from the vertical launch system of AEGIS battle management system equipment ships, this is principally a long-range surface-to-air missile using semi-active radar homing with no over-the-horizon capability; it can accept midcourse guidance for its secondar anti-shipping missile capability and thus engage over-the-horizon targets ^[e]
• RIM-161 Standard SM-3 [r]: Theater anti-ballistic (i.e., midcourse and terminal phases) and anti-satellite missile, using hit-to-kill, launched from ships equipped with the AN/SPY-2 radar and AEGIS battle management system. ^[e]
• RIM-174 Standard SM-6 [r]: An upgrade of the U.S. Navy RIM-156 Standard SM-2, which replaces the current semi-active radar homing terminal guidance with active radar using the AIM-120 AMRAAM seeker, giving AEGIS battle management system ships the capability to conduct over-the-horizon anti-air warfare ^[e]
• Rocket science [r]: Variously an incorrect name for various engineering disciplines in dealing with unguided rockets or the rocket motors of more intelligent vehicles, or an ironic description of something very complex or very simple (i.e., "this isn't rocket science") ^[e]
• SIGINT aircraft-based platforms [r]: An aircraft or unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that carries signals intelligence sensors ^[e]
• SS-1 SCUD [r]: A Soviet-designed short range and inaccurate ballistic missile, a near-copy of the Second World War V-2 missile, that was widely exported, copied, employed as a base for new development, and used in combat by Iraq ^[e]
• Soviet support for Iraq during the Iran-Iraq War [r]: Soviet technical assistance and sales of military and dual-use equipment, beginning in approximately 1975, to Iraq, and continuing through the Iran-Iraq War; the Soviet Union and France were the leading military suppliers to Iraq ^[e]
• Space launch vehicle [r]: A means of transportation through the atmosphere and into outer space; it may return, go into satellite orbit, or into an escape trajectory. Ballistic missiles are excluded ^[e]
• Surface-to-surface missile [r]: A guided missile launched from the land or water surface of the Earth, targeting a surface target ^[e]
• Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (missile) [r]: An anti-ballistic missile, developed by the U.S. Army, intended as the high-altitude tier of a layered theater ballistic missile defense system ^[e]
• U.S. intelligence and transnational counterproliferation activities [r]: An overview over activities of the United States intelligence community, specifically dealing with arms control, weapons of mass destruction and weapons counterproliferation. ^[e]
• UGM-27 Titan II [r]: A second-generation U.S. intercontinental ballistic missile able to lift unusually large warheads, and used as a space launch vehicle after military retirement. As an ICBM, it carried the largest warhead of any U.S. missile ^[e]
• UNSCOM [r]: A United Nations agency, created in April 1991, to inspect Iraq for weapons of mass destruction and long-range guided missiles, and to supervise destruction of weapons and production facilities ^[e]
• Unguided rocket [r]: A form of artillery weapon that uses a rocket motor to propel a warhead at a target, using no guidance once launched ^[e]
• Unitary warhead [r]: A warhead for artillery, unguided rockets, or missiles, which is filled with a single explosive charge rather than cluster submunitions ^[e]
• United Nations [r]: An international organization that was founded in 1945 with the mission of preventing international war, protecting human rights, supporting social progress and justice, and helping with economic progress. ^[e]
• United States Army Special Forces [r]: United States Army organization originally created to train and lead guerillas, highly qualified to work with other cultures; acquired additional missions including foreign internal defense, direct action (military), special reconnaissance, counterterrorism, etc. ^[e]
• V-1 [r]: The world's first, if crude, cruise missile used in appreciable numbers in combat ^[e]
• V-2 [r]: World's first operational ballistic missile, developed by Nazi Germany: (Vergeltungswaffe 2). ^[e]
• Warhead [r]: That part of a military weapon, which actively moves to strike a target, that causes the desired destructive effect on the target ^[e]
• World War II, air war, Mediterranean and European tactical operations [r]: Following the cancellation of the invasion of Britain, while harassment continued of the British Isles and the Eastern Front, the Germans searched for new opportunities in 1940-1941, finding them in Southern Europe, met, in part, by the invasion of North Africa in 1942, which led to the Italian campaign. ^[e]