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Air Defense Operations Area

From Department of Defense, for About.com

Definition: (DOD) An area and the airspace above it within which procedures are established to minimize mutual interference between air defense and other operations; it may include designation of one or more of the following: air defense action area, air defense area; air defense identification zone, and/or firepower umbrella.

See also air defense action area; air defense identification zone; firepower umbrella; positive identification and radar advisory zone.

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