What does TM stand for?

Theater Missile

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Military and Government

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Samples in periodicals archive:

But Raytheon also stands to gain from increased spending on areas like theater missile defense networks and other military hardware.

Earnings Preview: Raytheon to report 2nd quarter

Gates proposed on Monday adding special force troops, cyber-war capabilities, theater missile defense systems to protect troops and unmanned aerial vehicles while slashing some big-war, big-ticket programs such as the supersonic stealth F-22 fighter made by Lockheed Martin of Bethesda.

United States: Gates aims for military overhaul

HTS was founded in 1990 with the mission of providing technical services to the Navy's Theater Missile Defense Program.

Defense companies warrant specialized banking services

Current plans to proceed with National Missile Defense (NMD) and Theater Missile Defense (TMD) systems are largely based on this overestimation of the China threat.

Problems with Current U.S. Policy

Joint doctrine maintains that theater missile defense (TMD) is a joint mission, but in fact it is just another common mission pursued separately by the services.

Missile defense attack operations. (Cover Story)

To defend against these potential threats, the United States is developing two programs--a National Missile Defense (NMD) system, meant to defend all 50 states from attack, and various Theater Missile Defense (TMD) systems, intended to protect U.

Missile Defenses "Are in Our Future," Says U.S. Arms Control Official

This system, known as theater missile defense (TMD), would be cheaper and easier to make work than national missile defense (NMD), they said, in addition to easing the diplomatic backlash.

Ex-Pentagon officials urge missile-shield delay

The Airborne Laser is being developed in response to about 30 theater missiles that Third World nations either have now or are expected to have early in the next century.

AIR FORCE TO TEST LASER AT EDWARDS : WEAPON PROJECT TO CREATE JOBS