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The United States Air Force (USAF) is the aerial warfare branch of the United States Armed Forces which was created under the National Security Act of 1947 signed President Harry S Truman. The Air Force ended a 40-year association with the U.S. Army to become a separate service two years after the ...
A three-dimensional area reference that enables timely, effective coordination and control and facilitates rapid attacks. A generic term for a preplanned airspace control measure and/or a fire support coordination measure used by the joint force to integrate and synchronize air and surface operations and deconflict joint fires in an expedient manner or on an asymmetric battlefield.
Industry:Military
Relating to actions that involve the forces and energy of moving bodies, including physical damage to or destruction of targets through use of bombs, missiles, bullets, and similar projectiles.
Industry:Military
The art and science of influencing and directing people to accomplish the assigned mission.
Industry:Military
A behavioral, physical, or functional relationship between nodes in a system.
Industry:Military
1. A movement to place ships, aircraft, or land forces in a position of advantage over the enemy. 2. A tactical exercise carried out at sea, in the air, on the ground, or on a map in imitation of war. 3. The operation of a ship, aircraft, or vehicle, to cause it to perform desired movements. 4. Employment of forces in the battlespace through movement in combination with fires to achieve a position of advantage in respect to the enemy in order to accomplish the mission.
Air and space power is a maneuver element in its own right, co-equal with land and maritime power; as such, it is no longer merely a supporting force to surface combat. As a maneuver element, it can be supported by surface forces in attaining its assigned objectives.
Industry:Military
A system of receiving radio beacon signals and rebroadcasting them on the same frequency to confuse navigation. The meaconing stations cause inaccurate bearings to be obtained by aircraft or ground stations.
Successful enemy meaconing causes: 1. Aircraft to be lured into hot landing zones or enemy airspace 2. Bombers to expend ordnance on false targets. 3. Ground stations to receive inaccurate bearings or position locations.
Industry:Military
Independent qualitative or quantitative empirical measure assigned to an intended effect, against which the effect’s achievement is assessed. Also call MOE.
Industry:Military
A quantitative empirical measure of achieved actions against associated planned/required actions and against which a task’s or other action’s accomplishment, is assessed.
Industry:Military
Encompassing term for the various criteria used to evaluate progress within the assessment process.
Industry:Military
A theory of nuclear deterrence which is based on the premise that neither opponent will initiate a nuclear attack because the ensuring conflict would be unrestrained and would destroy both nations.
Industry:Military
