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Parent topics
- Intelligence (information gathering) [r]: The practice of finding information on opponents, or potential opponents. [e]
- Intelligence collection management [r]: Assigning questions to various collection techniques, reflecting the techniques available and the priority of the information need. Includes the process of categorizing information learned for subsequent analysis, and assigning probabilities of accuracy to the raw information [e]
- Imagery intelligence [r]: the practice of taking and interpreting visible and infrared light photographs and video, radar imagery, and other ways to form pictures of subjects of interest [e]
- Reconnaissance satellites [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Signals intelligence [r]: the practice of acquiring information through monitoring the electromagnetic signals deliberately trasmitted by an opponent, including communications (COMINT) and non-communications electronics such as radar (ELINT). [e]
Subtopics
Satellites
- ARGON satellite [r]: Add brief definition or description
- CORONA satellite [r]: The first series of U.S. imagery intelligence reconnaissance satellites, also known as KH-1 through KH-4B, and designed for increasingly detailed "close look" photography [e]
- CRYSTAL satellite [r]: Add brief definition or description
- DORIAN satellite [r]: Add brief definition or description
- GAMBIT satellite [r]: Add brief definition or description
- GRAB satellite [r]: Add brief definition or description
- JUMPSEAT satellite [r]: Add brief definition or description
- KH-1 satellite [r]: Add brief definition or description
- KH-2 satellite [r]: Add brief definition or description
- KH-3 satellite [r]: Add brief definition or description
- KH-4 satellite [r]: Add brief definition or description
- KH-4A satellite [r]: Add brief definition or description
- KH-4B satellite [r]: Add brief definition or description
- KH-6 satellite [r]: Add brief definition or description
- KH-9 satellite [r]: Add brief definition or description
- KH-11 satellite [r]: Add brief definition or description
- MAGNUM satellite [r]: Add brief definition or description
- POPPY satellite [r]: Add brief definition or description
- RHYOLITE satellite [r]: Add brief definition or description
- TATTLETALE satellite [r]: Add brief definition or description
- TRUMPET satellite [r]: Add brief definition or description
- WHITE CLOUD satellite [r]: A Cold War electronic intelligence system of multiple sets of microsatellite clusters that cooperated to locate radar and radio sources at sea for the United States Navy [e]
Manned platforms
- SR-71 Blackbird [r]: An advanced, long-range, Mach 3 strategic reconnaissance aircraft developed from the Lockheed YF-12A and A-12 aircraft by the Lockheed Skunk Works. [e]
- U-2 Dragon Lady [r]: A high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft that remains a key U.S. intelligence collection platform. [e]
Bases
- Alice Springs [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Buckley Air Force Station [r]: Add brief definition or description
Other related topics
- MQ-4 GLOBAL HAWK [r]: Add brief definition or description
- 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 COMBAT SENT [r]: A long-range aircraft, operated by the United States Air Force, for collecting electronic intelligence [e]
- RC-135 RIVET JOINT [r]: A United States Air Force long-range aircraft for collecting communications intelligence [e]
