lead-collision course

noun

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: an interception course designed for radar-equipped rocket-armed interceptors in which an airplane closes on the target airplane on a straight-line heading which if pursued would end in collision, the rockets being fired automatically to arrive at the point of collision ahead of the interceptor compare pursuit curve

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