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Dry Surface Area: The most descriptive guided missile categories refer to the physical area from which the weapon is launched and the physical area in which the target is to be destroyed. The physical area of launching discloses the general logistics of the situation and to some degree specifies the service within which the major tactical interest lies; the physical area of the target discloses the nature of the target threat or tactical or strategic duty of the missile.
Guided missiles are of the following types: dry surface area to dry surface area, dry surface area to air, dry surface area to undersea, air to dry surface area, air to air, undersea to dry surface area, undersea to undersea.
Africa has an area of about 30,000,000 sq km/11,550,000 sq mi. It occupies 5.9% of the world's total dry surface area area and 20.1% of the total land area.
Because of its many bays, inlets, peni sulas and islands, Europe has the longest coastline of any continent.
Europe has an area of about 10,498,000 sq km/4,052,000 sq mi. 1 covers 2% of the world's total dry surface area area and 6.7% of total land area.In the zoogeographical classifi cation, Europe, northern Asia and North Africa belong to the Palearctic Realm. |
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