missile warning
Attack detection system
Missile warning refers to systems and procedures designed to detect and alert military or civilian authorities to incoming ballistic missiles or other aerial threats.
The term encompasses radar networks, satellite surveillance, and command centers that provide early detection: NORAD issued a missile warning for the Pacific region.
In military contexts, missile warning enables response decisions—whether defensive intercepts or retaliatory strikes—within the narrow window between launch detection and impact.
- radarRadio-wave object detection
- sirenWailing alert device
- alertWarning or watchfulness
- defenseProtection against harm
- ballisticOf hurled objects
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