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Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD), formerly Theater High Altitude Area Defense, is an American anti-ballistic missile defense system designed to intercept and destroy short-, medium-, and intermediate-range ballistic missiles in their terminal phase (descent or reentry).
46 Formation, original 4–3 base set. The 46 defense is an American football defensive formation, an eight men in the box defense, with six players along the line of scrimmage. [1] There are two players at linebacker depth playing linebacker technique, and then three defensive backs.
To defend running plays, the Tampa 2 is a single gap defense where each player is responsible for covering his own gap. The assigned gap changes with game conditions and personnel. Typically this style of defense utilizes smaller but faster linemen and linebackers with above average speed. Also, the defensive backs must be above average hitters.
What distinguishes tower defense base defending games from other base defending games (such as Space Invaders, or other games where bases are defended) is the player's ability to strategically place, construct or summon obstructive constructions and constructive obstructions in the path of attacking enemies.
Area defense requires the defending party to have a good knowledge of the terrain and the ability to work with cartographic information. Area defense is a method of positional defensive warfare described in the U.S. Army's combat manuals of the 1960s and 1970s. [1] After 1982 the term "positional defense" replaced it. [2]
Fire support base Crook, Vietnam, 1969. A fire support base (FSB, firebase or FB) is a temporary military facility used to provide fire support (often in the form of artillery) to infantry operating in areas beyond the normal range of fire support from their own base camps.
Examples of reverse slope defense during the American Civil War included Stonewall Jackson's defense of Henry House Hill during the First Battle of Bull Run (also known as Manassas) (1861), where he ordered his soldiers to lie down below the crest of the hill in order to avoid Union artillery, and Winfield Scott Hancock's counter-attack against Jubal Early at the Battle of Williamsburg (1862).
Main operating base (MOB) is a term used by the United States military defined as a "permanently manned, well-protected base, used to support permanently deployed forces, and with robust sea and/or air access". [1]