Author:
Publisher: U.S. Government Printing Office
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Examines technical, operational, and cost issues related to using a boost-phase intercept (BPI) system to defend the United States against intercontinental ballistic missiles.
Alternatives for Boost-phase Missile Defense
Author:
Publisher: U.S. Government Printing Office
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Examines technical, operational, and cost issues related to using a boost-phase intercept (BPI) system to defend the United States against intercontinental ballistic missiles.
Publisher: U.S. Government Printing Office
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Examines technical, operational, and cost issues related to using a boost-phase intercept (BPI) system to defend the United States against intercontinental ballistic missiles.
Alternatives for Boost-Phase Missile Defense
Author:
Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN:
Category : Antimissile missiles
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN:
Category : Antimissile missiles
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Alternatives for Boost-Phase Missile Defense (A CBO Study)
Author: Congressional Budget Office
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781304122186
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
A prominent part of the Bush Administration's strategy for national defense is developing and fielding defenses against ballistic missiles. To that end, the Department of Defense's Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is pursuing a layered defense composed of various systems capable of intercepting ballistic missiles at different points in their flight. For the past several years, work has primarily focused on intercepting long-range missiles during their midcourse phase (after their booster rockets have burned out but before their warheads have reentered the atmosphere). MDA plans to field initial elements of a midcourse system this year. Recently, the agency also began an effort to develop interceptors capable of hitting intercontinental ballistic missiles during their boost phase (the first few minutes after launch, before their booster rockets burn out).
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781304122186
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
A prominent part of the Bush Administration's strategy for national defense is developing and fielding defenses against ballistic missiles. To that end, the Department of Defense's Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is pursuing a layered defense composed of various systems capable of intercepting ballistic missiles at different points in their flight. For the past several years, work has primarily focused on intercepting long-range missiles during their midcourse phase (after their booster rockets have burned out but before their warheads have reentered the atmosphere). MDA plans to field initial elements of a midcourse system this year. Recently, the agency also began an effort to develop interceptors capable of hitting intercontinental ballistic missiles during their boost phase (the first few minutes after launch, before their booster rockets burn out).
Options for Deploying Missile Defenses in Europe
Author:
Publisher: Congressional Budget Office
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Examines the cost and potential defensive capability of the proposed European ground-based midcourse defense system. Also explores alternatives.
Publisher: Congressional Budget Office
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Examines the cost and potential defensive capability of the proposed European ground-based midcourse defense system. Also explores alternatives.
Making Sense of Ballistic Missile Defense
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309216109
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
The Committee on an Assessment of Concepts and Systems for U.S. Boost-Phase Missile Defense in Comparison to Other Alternatives set forth to provide an assessment of the feasibility, practicality, and affordability of U.S. boost-phase missile defense compared with that of the U.S. non-boost missile defense when countering short-, medium-, and intermediate-range ballistic missile threats from rogue states to deployed forces of the United States and its allies and defending the territory of the United States against limited ballistic missile attack. To provide a context for this analysis of present and proposed U.S. boost-phase and non-boost missile defense concepts and systems, the committee considered the following to be the missions for ballistic missile defense (BMD): protecting of the U.S. homeland against nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction (WMD); or conventional ballistic missile attacks; protection of U.S. forces, including military bases, logistics, command and control facilities, and deployed forces, including military bases, logistics, and command and control facilities. They also considered deployed forces themselves in theaters of operation against ballistic missile attacks armed with WMD or conventional munitions, and protection of U.S. allies, partners, and host nations against ballistic-missile-delivered WMD and conventional weapons. Consistent with U.S. policy and the congressional tasking, the committee conducted its analysis on the basis that it is not a mission of U.S. BMD systems to defend against large-scale deliberate nuclear attacks by Russia or China. Making Sense of Ballistic Missile Defense: An Assessment of Concepts and Systems for U.S. Boost-Phase Missile Defense in Comparison to Other Alternatives suggests that great care should be taken by the U.S. in ensuring that negotiations on space agreements not adversely impact missile defense effectiveness. This report also explains in further detail the findings of the committee, makes recommendations, and sets guidelines for the future of ballistic missile defense research.
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309216109
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
The Committee on an Assessment of Concepts and Systems for U.S. Boost-Phase Missile Defense in Comparison to Other Alternatives set forth to provide an assessment of the feasibility, practicality, and affordability of U.S. boost-phase missile defense compared with that of the U.S. non-boost missile defense when countering short-, medium-, and intermediate-range ballistic missile threats from rogue states to deployed forces of the United States and its allies and defending the territory of the United States against limited ballistic missile attack. To provide a context for this analysis of present and proposed U.S. boost-phase and non-boost missile defense concepts and systems, the committee considered the following to be the missions for ballistic missile defense (BMD): protecting of the U.S. homeland against nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction (WMD); or conventional ballistic missile attacks; protection of U.S. forces, including military bases, logistics, command and control facilities, and deployed forces, including military bases, logistics, and command and control facilities. They also considered deployed forces themselves in theaters of operation against ballistic missile attacks armed with WMD or conventional munitions, and protection of U.S. allies, partners, and host nations against ballistic-missile-delivered WMD and conventional weapons. Consistent with U.S. policy and the congressional tasking, the committee conducted its analysis on the basis that it is not a mission of U.S. BMD systems to defend against large-scale deliberate nuclear attacks by Russia or China. Making Sense of Ballistic Missile Defense: An Assessment of Concepts and Systems for U.S. Boost-Phase Missile Defense in Comparison to Other Alternatives suggests that great care should be taken by the U.S. in ensuring that negotiations on space agreements not adversely impact missile defense effectiveness. This report also explains in further detail the findings of the committee, makes recommendations, and sets guidelines for the future of ballistic missile defense research.
Options for Deploying Missile Defenses in Europe
Author:
Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780160878626
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Examines the cost and potential defensive capability of the proposed European ground-based midcourse defense system. Also explores alternatives.
Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780160878626
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Examines the cost and potential defensive capability of the proposed European ground-based midcourse defense system. Also explores alternatives.
CBO, Budget Options, Vol. 2, August 2009
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Budget Options: Spending options
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Budget
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Budget
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Budget Options
Author: United States. Congressional Budget Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Budget
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Budget
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Alternatives for Boost-phase Missile Defense
Author:
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428980105
Category : Antimissile missiles
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428980105
Category : Antimissile missiles
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description