- Settore: Government; Military
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A system which provides the pilot or navigator of an aircraft with a situation display of the ground or obstacles which project above either a horizontal plane through the aircraft or a plane parallel to it, so that the pilot can maneuver the aircraft to avoid the obstruction.
Industry:Military
A system which provides the pilot or autopilot of an aircraft with climb or dive signals such that the aircraft will maintain as closely as possible a selected height above a ground contour in a vertical plane through the flight vector.
Industry:Military
A system using directed energy primarily for a purpose other than as a weapon. Directed-energy devices may produce effects that could allow the device to be used as a weapon against certain threats; for example, laser rangefinders and designators used against sensors that are sensitive to light.
Industry:Military
A system using directed energy primarily as a direct means to damage or destroy enemy equipment, facilities, and personnel.
Industry:Military
A system that provides: a. Control of patient movement by air transport; b. Specialized medical aircrew, medical crew augmentees, and specialty medical attendants and equipment for inflight medical care; c. Facilities on or in the vicinity of air strips and air bases for the limited medical care of intransit patients entering, en route via, or leaving the system; and d. Communication with originating, destination, and en route medical facilities concerning patient transportation.
Industry:Military
A system that provides the aviation combat element commander with the means to command, coordinate, and control all air operations within an assigned sector and to coordinate air operations with other Services. It is composed of command and control agencies with communications-electronics equipment that incorporates a capability from manual through semiautomatic control.
Industry:Military
A system that provides rough range and bearing to isolated personnel by integrating the survival radio (if equipped with a transponder) with an airborne locating system, based on an encrypted communications homing system.
Industry:Military
A system of subject and area references to index the information contained in intelligence reports as required by a general intelligence document reference service.
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.
Industry:Military
A system of preplanned shipping lanes in mined or potentially mined waters used to minimize the area the mine countermeasures commander has to keep clear of mines in order to provide safe passage for friendly shipping.
Industry:Military
