What does TM stand for?

Target Missile

This definition appears very rarely and is found in the following Acronym Finder categories:

Military and Government

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Samples in periodicals archive:

The USS Lake Erie detected and tracked the target missile using Aegis 4.

United States: Second Generation Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense ...

There has been neither decoys, nor simultaneous target missiles launched.

Northwest Voices; Letters, faxes and e-mails

According to a Missile Defense Agency statement, the Hopper fired and guided an SM-3 Block IA missile that intercepted the target missile about 100 miles above the Pacific Ocean.

Latest US missile defense test in Hawaii a success

Target missiles continue as a persistent problem in fiscal year 2008 as poor target performance caused several tests to either fail in part or in whole.

Defense Acquisitions: Charting a Course for Improved Missile Defense ...

For the first time the target missile will be fired from a ship in the Bay of Bengal and the interceptor, which will be fired from the Wheelers Island, located off the Orissa coast, would kill the target outside the atmosphere.

Air defence drill in Feb

Missile defense operators must know the target missile's origin and destination, and the target missile must be traveling at an unusually slow speed and emitting an exaggerated radar signature.

A scarecrow defense

Directions: Decide which of you will be the target missile and which will be the interceptor.

Seriously ... you couldn't make this stuff up

This image sequence, of a Pac3 interceptor playing tag with a Hera target missile, was taken with Questar's SZ180 telescope connected to a Cohu 8215 colour CCD camera.

StepZoom for razor sharp. (Digest)