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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, using the energy of gases generated by 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]: Add brief definition or description
• M26 (rocket) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System [r]: Add brief definition or description
• M30 (rocket) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• MGM-140 ATACMS [r]: Add brief definition or description
• MIM-104 Patriot [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Midcourse [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Missile Technology Control Regime [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Missile defense [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Missile warning receiver [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Nuclear weapon [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Operation DESERT STORM [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Outer space [r]: Add brief definition or description
• People's Liberation Army [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Precision-guided munition [r]: Add brief definition or description
• RC-135 COBRA BALL [r]: Add brief definition or description
• RC-135 RIVET JOINT [r]: Add brief definition or description
• RIM-156 Standard SM-2 [r]: Add brief definition or description
• RIM-161 Standard SM-3 [r]: Add brief definition or description
• RIM-174 Standard SM-6 [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Rocket science [r]: Add brief definition or description
• SIGINT aircraft-based platforms [r]: Add brief definition or description
• SS-1 SCUD [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Soviet support for Iraq during the Iran-Iraq War [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Space launch vehicle [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Surface-to-surface missile [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (missile) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• U.S. intelligence and transnational counterproliferation activities [r]: Add brief definition or description
• UGM-27 Titan II [r]: Add brief definition or description
• UNSCOM [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Unguided rocket [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Unitary warhead [r]: Add brief definition or description
• United Nations [r]: Add brief definition or description
• United States Army Special Forces [r]: Add brief definition or description
• V-1 [r]: Add brief definition or description
• V-2 [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Warhead [r]: Add brief definition or description
• World War II, air war, Mediterranean and European tactical operations [r]: Add brief definition or description