surface-to-surface weapon

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• surface-to-air weapon — A surface launched weapon for use against airborne targets. Examples include missiles, rockets, and air defense guns …   Military dictionary

• surface-to-air weapon — A surface launched weapon for use against airborne targets. Future developments in air defense systems may lead to the employment of weapons other than missiles and air defense guns. Examples include rockets and directed energy weapons …   Aviation dictionary

• weapon system — A total complex of equipment, skills, and techniques which together form an instrument of combat, usually but not necessarily having an air vehicle as its major operational element. A combat aircraft with its support system and equipment forms a… …   Aviation dictionary

• weapon system video — 1. Imagery recorded by video camera systems aboard aircraft or ship that shows delivery and impact of air to ground, or surface to air ordnance and air to air engagements. 2. A term used to describe the overarching program or process of capturing …   Military dictionary

• surface-to-air missile — Missile Mis sile, n. [L. missile.] 1. A weapon thrown or projected or intended to be projected, as a lance, an arrow, or a bullet. [1913 Webster] 2. A rocket propelled device designed to fly through the air and deliver a warhead of explosive… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• nuclear weapon — an explosive device whose destructive potential derives from the release of energy that accompanies the splitting or combining of atomic nuclei. [1945 50] * * * or atomic weapon or thermonuclear weapon Bomb or other warhead that derives its force …   Universalium

• Anti-submarine weapon — An anti submarine weapon is any one of a range of devices that are intended to act against a submarine, and its crew, to destroy (sink) the vessel or to destroy or reduce its capability as a weapon of war. An anti submarine weapon can be… …   Wikipedia

• Ranged weapon — A period illustration of the Battle of Crécy. English longbowmen figure prominently in the foreground at right where they drive away the French crossbowmen. A ranged weapon is any weapon that can harm targets at distances greater than hand to… …   Wikipedia

• List of naval weapon systems — The list of naval weapon systems provides a reference for weapons mounted on surface warships, and smaller craft and submarines found throughout the history of naval warfare. The list is sorted alpha numerically by system service designation (i.e …   Wikipedia

• Directed-energy weapon — This article is about practical experiments with energy weapons. For fictional uses, see raygun. Humvee with Active Denial System mounted A directed energy weapon (DEW) emits energy in an aimed direction without the means of a projectile. It… …   Wikipedia

• Nuclear weapon design — The first nuclear weapons, though large, cumbersome and inefficient, provided the basic design building blocks of all future weapons. Here the Gadget device is prepared for the first nuclear test: Trinity. Nuclear weapon designs are physical,… …   Wikipedia