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APPENDIX 8
GLOSSARY
anti-submarine warfare - operations conducted against submarines 151
cargo aircraft – aircraft equipped to transport personnel and material. 152
communications security - The protection resulting from all measures designed to deny
unauthorized persons information of value that might be derived from the possession and
study of telecommunications, or to mislead unauthorized persons in their interpretation of
the results of such possession and study. 153
communications security equipment — Equipment designed to provide security to
telecommunications by converting information to a form unintelligible to an unauthorized
interceptor and by reconverting such information to its original form for authorized
recipients, as well as equipment designed specifically to aid in (or as an essential element
of) the conversion process. 154
datalink – 1. Any highway or channel along which messages are sent in digital form.
2. Communications channel or circuit used to transmit data from sensor to computer,
readout device or storage. 155
electronic countermeasures – Subdivision of EW; actions to reduce or exploit
effectiveness of enemy electromagnetic radiation. 156
electronic warfare – military action involving the use of electromagnetic and directed
energy to control the electromagnetic spectrum or to attack the enemy. Electronic warfare
consists of three divisions: electronic attack, electronic protection, and electronic warfare
support. 157
151
Ministério da Defesa, MD 35-G01 Glossário das Forças Armadas, 123.
152
Ibid.
153
The U.S. Department of Defense, The Dictionary of Military Terms, 92.
154
Ibid., 93.
155
Gunston, The Cambridge Aerospace Dictionary, 166.
156
Ibid., 207.
157
The U.S. Department of Defense, The Dictionary of Military Terms, 157.
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