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100 Cards in this Set
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Which principle is not an EW tenet? Exploit, Control, Enhance, Command
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Command
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traditionally noise jammin techniques designed to block communication channels or radarscope presentations are applications of?
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Denial
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Delibera radiation, reradiation, alteration, suppression, absorption, denial, enhancement, or reflection of electromagnetic energy to mislead the enemy is called?
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Deception
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What is the most effective means of denying the enemy use of the electromagnetic spectrum?
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Destruction
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What component of EW involves the use of electromagnetic, directed energy, or aniradiation weapons to attack personnel, facilities, or equipment?
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EA
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What EW component is used to locate intentional and unintentional radiated electromagnetic energy for threat recognition?
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Electronic support
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Electronic support data is not used to produce?
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Ballistic Intelligence
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Degrading or interfering with the enemies C2 capabilities is best described by?
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Disruption
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Using persision guided munitions, cruise missiles, or gunships is an example of?
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Physical attack
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What support system provides detection and control of low-level aircraft beyond coverage of ground based radars?
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AWACS
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Normal suppression of enemy air defense targets include radars for?
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acquisition, antiaircraft artillery, Early warning/ ground controlled intercept, and SAM
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What SAM system in North vietnam was devistating our strike forces?
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SA-2
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What division of EW involves weapons that use electromagnetic or directed energy as their primary destructive mechanism?
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Electronic attack
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What missile uses an electro optical or infrared imaging system to perform EA?
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AGM-65
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What type of electromagnetic jamming focuses all of the jamming energy in one particular area?
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Directional
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What type of jamming masks the presence and/or location of the strike force?
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Standoff
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What aircraft is used to jam communications of the enemies C2 network?
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EC-130H
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The steps taken to limit the incidental or accidental emission from electronic equipment is best described as?
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Emission control
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The processes and actions necessary to protect your equipment from the effects of an electromagnetic pulse produced by an atomic blast is best described as?
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Electromagnetic hardening
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any disturbance that interrupts, obstructs, degrades, or limits the effective performance of electronics or equipment is best described as?
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Electromagnetic interference
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The steps taken to locate the intentional and unintentional emissions from radar equipment is best described as?
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Electronic support
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What are EW reconnaissance crews called?
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Ravens
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The piece of equipment considered the heart of the electronic support system is?
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Panoramic receiver
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What ES equipment provides antenna scan type, scan rate, pulse recurrence frequency, pulse width, and pulse shape?
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Pulse analyzer
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What Air Force aircraft is used extensively to collect ELINT and COMINT data?
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RC-135V/W
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What major subdivision of SIGINT collects and processes data on radar?
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ELINT
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What ELINT equipment is used to determine location of emitters?
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Direction finder
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What is the correct order in which the four radars in an air defense network are used?
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Early warning, Height finder, Acquisition, and Terminal defense
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What type of information necessary for ground-controlled intercept is provided by HF radar?
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Altitude
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What type of radar in an air defense network is a lethal threat attacking aircraft?
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Terminal defense
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What three phases do SAM systems function to target attacking aircraft?
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Acquisition, target tracking, and command guidance
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What type of fuse is vulnerable to EW?
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PRX
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An important part of the C2 system is the?
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Computer
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The most effective C2 addition to the basic air defense system is?
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AWACS aircraft
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What addition to the C2 network extend the range of the air defense system?
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Long range interceptors and AWACS
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What type of radar in an air defense network obtains accurate data on the number of attacking aircraft and their track?
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Terminal Defense
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Which military frequency band designator denotes a frequency range higher than the others?
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Golf
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The angle of incidence required to to get a reflection back to the source is?
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90°
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What unit of a pulse radar provides very short pulse of DC voltage?
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Modulator
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What unit of a pulse radar provides the PRF of the radar?
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Master timer
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What radar display indicator displays range or velocity?
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A scope
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The radars ability to separate targets into individual returns that are close together is called?
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resolution
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A nonlinear device is any electronic device where the?
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Current through the device is not proportional to the applied voltage
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When performing heterodyning of two different RF signals, the output will be?
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Sum, difference, and two original frequencies
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A panoramic receiver displays detected emitters by?
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frequency and amplitude
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What feature of a panoramic receiver prevents display of on-board transmitters output?
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receiver blanking
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What mode of operation must the ALR-20 panoramic receiver be in to use the audio facility?
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Manual
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What range of coverage does the RWR's antennas provide?
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360°
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What component of the RWR processes the RF into video signal?
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Receiver amplifier
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What component of the RWR identifies radar signals?
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Signal processor
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The RWR soes not provide signal?
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Amplitude
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What component of the RWR selects the mode of operation?
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Interface control unit
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All of the following are techniques used by geolocation receivers except? Triangulation, Interferometry, Time of Arrival, Amplitude comparison
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Amplitude comparison
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Taking direction measurements from more then one source is?
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Triangulation
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The geolocation technique that involves using the phase difference to compute AOA is?
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interferometry
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What geolocation techniques involves solving for the distance that the emitter is away from the receiver?
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Time of Arrival
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What type of modulation create upper and lower sidebands?
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Amplitude
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The proccess where the carrier waves frequency and phase very according with the amplitude and frequency variations of a signal wave is called?
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Frequency modulation
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What determines the amount of deviation from the carrier wave?
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Amplitude of the modulating signal
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Which is not an advantage of noise modulation?
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uniform in amplitude
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The main consideration for effective electronic jamming is?
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Sufficient power
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The point where a radar's return is stronger than the jamming signal is called the?
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crossover point
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What type of noise jamming is tunable over a wide range of frequencies, but transmits a narrow bandwidth signal, concentrating all available power on a specific receiver?
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Spot
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What type of noise jamming uses continuos and simultaneous jamming of all frequencies within a wide range of frequencies?
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Barrage
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What advantage does deception jammer have over noise jammer?
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requires less power
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What type of deception jamming is related to time?
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Range
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What type of deception jamming makes use of the doppler shift?
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Velocity
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What type of deception jamming techniques is used at low altitude against missiles?
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Terrain bounce
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What chaff characteristic is a measure of the net reradiated energy from target to the illuminating radar?
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radar cross section
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What chaff characterisic is the length of time that chaff is at an effective altitude?
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Persistence
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What chaff dispensing tactics confuses radar operators with multiple false targets?
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area saturation
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What type of radar self protection chaff tactic used causes errors in the azimuth, elevation, and range tracking circuits?
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Monopulse
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Against what type of radar is self protection chaff tactics the least effective?
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Doppler
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What important tactic must be performed with flare deployment to effectively defeat infrared threats?
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Maneuver
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What affect does rise time have on a flare decoying an infrared missile?
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Flare burns longer at high altitude, but takes much longer to reach peak intensity
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What type of flare does not leave a visual signature such as smoke or flame?
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Covert
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What is not the primary mission of a decoy?
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Counter infrared threats
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What is the primary limitation of a towed decoy system?
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Achieving 360° coverage
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What type of decoy is designed to provide protection for the aircraft for a specific period?
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Expendable active
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What three properties are common to both visible and IR light?
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Absorption, refection, and refraction
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What is the emissivity factor of a theoretical black body?
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1.0
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What area of the aircraft will have least IR signature?
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Skin
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What type of IR seeker chops the IR at a rate determined by the reticle pattern?
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Spin
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What IR seeker generates a frequency modulated signal directly proportional to the amount of target displacement from the center of the seeker scan?
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Conical
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An effective IRCM tactic by using the natural environment is?
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Maneuvering into the sun
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What IRCM tactic is used to reduce an engine IR signature?
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Introducing smoke into the engine exhaust
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Using a modulated high intensity IR energy to break an IR missile's lock, is an example of?
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Active infrared countermeasures
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What feature of a MAWS relates to timelines?
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Rapid identification of IR missile threats
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What is one disadvantage to active MAWS?
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Can be tracked by passive detection
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The advantage of passive MAWS is?
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The system is tuned to look for IR signature of missile 's exhaust plume
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When a photon causes the release of another photon, it is called?
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stimulated emission
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Monochromatic, in relationship to laser theory, means single?
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Frequency
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What region of the frequency spectrum is Air Force aircraft laser sensors used?
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Infrared
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The relationship between a lasers coherency and bandwidth is?
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inversely proportional
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When white light is compared to laser light,
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White light has a wider bandwidth than laser light
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What laser device aids a visual acquisition of a target to be attacked?
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Spot tracker
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The laser danger zone for direct beam viewing extends over an extremely?
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Long distance because the beam spreads so little
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In what altitude range are contrails most likely be formed?
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15,000 to 35,000 Ft.
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How many components make up the PAS?
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3
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What technology does the PAS employ to detect contrail from the #3 engine exhaust?
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Laser
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