- Industry: Government; Military
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The point whose coordinates are the arithmetic means of the coordinates of the separate points of impact/burst of a finite number of projectiles fired or released at the same aiming point under a given set of conditions.
Industry:Military
The point on the surface of the Earth at, or vertically below or above, the center of an actual nuclear detonation.
Industry:Military
The point on the surface of the Earth at, or vertically below or above, the center of a planned or actual nuclear detonation.
Industry:Military
The point offshore where waves and swells are affected by the underwater surface and become breakers.
Industry:Military
The point in time when a supported joint force commander determines that sufficient personnel and equipment resources are in the assigned operational area to carry out assigned tasks.
Industry:Military
The point at which a missile trajectory or a satellite orbit is farthest from the center of the gravitational field of the controlling body or bodies.
Industry:Military
The point at which a force no longer has the capability to continue its form of operations, offense or defense. A. In the offense, the point at which effectively continuing the attack is no longer possible and the force must consider reverting to a defensive posture or attempting an operational pause. B. In the defense, the point at which effective counteroffensive action is no longer possible.
Industry:Military
The plans prepared by the landing force and appropriate subordinate commanders containing instructions and information concerning the organization for embarkation, assignment to shipping, supplies and equipment to be embarked, location and assignment of embarkation areas, control and communication arrangements, movement schedules and embarkation sequence, and additional pertinent instructions relating to the embarkation of the landing force.
Industry:Military
The planning and executing of fire so that targets are adequately covered by a suitable weapon or group of weapons.
Industry:Military
The planned use of economic measures designed to influence the policies or actions of another state, e.g., to impair the war-making potential of a hostile power or to generate economic stability within a friendly power.
Industry:Military
