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A mechanical jolt delivered to an object. Physically, impulse is a force applied for a period of time, and the System Internationale Unit of impulse is the newton-second (abbreviated N-s). (See Impulse Intensity.)
Industry:Military
A model, built to scale, of a machine, apparatus, or weapon. It is used in examining the construction of critical clearances, in testing a new development, or in teaching personnel how to operate or maintain the actual item.
Industry:Military
An element that contained a node on the SDS backbone network as well as on some other network(s) and would have performed protocol and format conversions necessary to accept messages from one network and retransmit them on the other.
Industry:Military
An auxiliary or initial propulsion system that travels with a missile or aircraft and that may or may not separate from the parent craft when its impulse has been delivered. A booster system may contain or consist of one or more units.
Industry:Military
The raising of the molecules or atoms of a lasant to an energy state above the normal lowest state to produce laser light. This results when they fall back to a lower state. Pumping may be done using electrical, chemical, or nuclear energy.
Industry:Military
1. A technique used to frustrate discrimination that uses the decoy shape and material content to reduce the reflected IR, radar, optical or acoustic cross-section to the defensive sensor. 2. US Advanced Technology Bomber under development.
Industry:Military
Actual expenditures. Checks issued, interest accrued on the public debt, or other payments, net of refunds and reimbursements. Total budget outlays consist of the sum of the outlays from appropriations and funds in the budget, less receipts.
Industry:Military
TEMPEST is an unclassified short name referring to investigation and studies of compromising emanations. It is often used synonymously for the term "compromising emanations," e.g. TEMPEST tests, TEMPEST inspection. (See Compromising Emanations.)
Industry:Military
A terminal Soviet anti-ballistic missile (ABM) defense system using transportable phased-array radars and both long and short-range, high acceleration interceptors similar to the U.S. Sprint. This system was developed and tested in the 1970’s and early 1980’s.
Industry:Military
Assigned to and forming an essential part of a military organization. Organic parts of a unit are those listed in its table of organization for the Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps, and are assigned to the administrative organizations of the operating forces for the Navy.
Industry:Military
