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    The Missile Defense Alarm System, or MIDAS, was a United States Air Force Air Defense Command system of 12 early-warning satellites that provided limited...
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    reasons behind this remain unknown. List of civil defense sirens Emergency Alert System Fire alarm system Long Range Acoustic Device Rotary woofer Testing...
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    ALARM (Air Launched Anti-Radiation Missile) is a British anti-radiation missile designed primarily to destroy enemy radars for the purpose of Suppression...
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    (Israel Defense Forces designation מעיל רוח, 'Windbreaker') is a protection system for military armored vehicles. It is termed an active protection system (APS)...
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    A security alarm is a system designed to detect intrusions, such as unauthorized entry, into a building or other areas, such as a home or school. Security...
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    be false alarms by Stanislav Petrov, an engineer of the Soviet Air Defence Forces on duty at the command center of the early-warning system. He decided...
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  • Skycope's detection products, providing 24/7 autonomous defense operations with minimal false alarms. It offers a robust jamming capability with a Jammer-to-Signal...
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    Stanislav Petrov (category Pages using infobox military person with embed)
    role in the 1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident. On 26 September 1983, three weeks after the Soviet military had shot down Korean Air Lines Flight...
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    wire Seismic A PIDS typically acts as an early warning system, alerting a site's alarm system while the intruder is still at the perimeter and not yet...
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    warning system Emergency Alert System (EAS) (United States) Famine Early Warning Systems Network Federal Civil Defense Authority Fire alarm system Gale warning...
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  • Nuclear close calls (category Military nuclear accidents and incidents)
    sabotage alarm, which automatically set off similar alarms at other bases in the region. At Volk Field in Wisconsin, a faulty alarm system caused the...
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    Commons has media related to Military satellites. Missile Defense Alarm System Space warfare Spy satellite Strategic Defense Initiative Why Isro's Gsat-7A...
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    2018 Hawaii false missile alert (category Civil defense in the United States)
    in the United States Civil defense – Protection of citizens from natural disaster and military attack Emergency Alert System – Method of emergency broadcasting...
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    The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), derisively nicknamed the Star Wars program, was a proposed missile defense system intended to protect the United...
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    posts" into a "coupled command system" with mobile centers and a "bomb alarm system".: 232  The subsequent National Defense Communications Control Center...
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    information on United States Department of Defense (DOD) networks, protective distribution system (PDS) is a set of military instructions and guidelines for network...
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    required. The military complex has included, in the past, many units of NORAD, USSC, Aerospace Defense Command (ADCOM), Air Force Systems Command, Air...
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  • rocket countermeasure. Another American system, known as Iron Curtain, utilizes two sensors to reduce false alarms and defeat threats inches from their target...
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    administering most defense contracts in 1965, the military services had retained responsibility for administering most major weapons systems and overseas contracts...
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    Support Program replaced the 1960s space-based infrared Missile Defense Alarm System (MIDAS). The first successful launch of MIDAS (MIDAS-2) was 24 May...
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    government, military or prison facility that operates as the agency's dispatch center, surveillance monitoring center, coordination office and alarm monitoring...
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    forces and forms military policy with the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Interior. The five Armed Forces are among eight military forces of Saudi...
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    CONELRAD (category Civil defense in the United States)
    similar false attack alarm was sent to radio and television stations through CONELRAD's replacement, the Emergency Broadcast System, at 9:33 AM EST on Saturday...
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  • Information Technology (STI) is also part of the Iranian defense industry. Iran's military industry was born under the last Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza...
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  • support to the Israeli government. Military aid was coordinated throughout the war, at monthly meetings of Israel's Defense Coordination Group. The US has...
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  • of military modernization was the transformation of the defense establishment into a system capable of independently maintaining a modern military force...
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  • Dead Hand (redirect from Perimeter system)
    use of the system would theoretically reduce the likelihood of a false-alarm-triggered retaliation. The purpose of the Dead Hand system, as described...
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    The Civil Air Defense Bureau of the National Defense Mobilization Department of the Central Military Commission (CCAD for short) is located in Beijing...
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    Defense Command space forces, including the Missile Defense Alarm System, Ballistic Missile Early Warning System, Space Detection and Tracking System...
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  • Portable Air Defense System MAOV – Mobile Artillery Observation Vehicle MAP – Military Aid Programme MAPS – Modular Azimuth Position System MAR – Micro...
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