Download or read book Evaluation of Antitactical Ballistic Missile Defence written by Hans Günter Brauch and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Regional Security and Anti tactical Ballistic Missiles written by William A. Davis and published by Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis, Incorporated. This book was released on 1986 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Making Sense of Ballistic Missile Defense written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2013-01-28 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Defense Against Ballistic Missiles written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ballistic Missile Defense written by Ashton B. Carter and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defense against nuclear attack—so natural and seemingly so compelling a goal—has provoked debate for at least twenty years. Ballistic missle defense systems, formerly called antiballistic missile systems, offer the prospect of remedying both superpowers' alarming vulnerability to nuclear weapons by technological rather than political means. But whether ballistic missile defenses can be made to work and whether it is wise to build them remain controversial. The U.S.-Soviet Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty of 1972 restricts testing and deployment of ballistic missile defenses but has not prohibited more than a decade of research and development on both sides. As exotic new proposals are put forward for space-based directed-energy systems, questions about the effectiveness and wisdom of missile defense have again become central to the national debate on defense policy. This study, jointly sponsored by the Brookings Institution and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, examines the strategic, technological, and political issues raised by ballistic missile defense. Eight contributors take an analytical approach to their areas of expertise, which include the relationship of missile defense to nuclear strategy, the nature and potential applications of current and future technologies, the views on missile defense in the Soviet Union and among the smaller nuclear powers, the meaning of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty for today's technology, and the present role and historical legacy of ballistic missile defense in the context of East-West relations. The volume editors give a comprehensive introduction to this wide range of subjects and an assessment of future prospects. In the final chapter, nine knowledgeable observers offer their varied personal views on the ballistic missile defense question.
Download or read book Ballistic Missile Defense and Offensive Arms Reductions written by Steven A. Hildreth and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ballistic missile defenses (BMD) have been an issue in U.S.-Soviet and U.S.-Russian arms control talks since the 1970s. During the Cold War, the nations sought to balance limits on offensive weapons and defensive weapons so that they could maintain ¿strategic stability,¿ which refers to the ability of each side to launch a retaliatory strike after absorbing a first strike by the other side. Contents of this report: (1) Intro.; (2) Strategic Stability and the Relationship Between Offensive and Defensive Forces; (3) BMD and the 1991 START Treaty: The Negotiating Framework; START Ratification; Resolving Competing Priorities; BMD Programs and Budgets; BMD in the 1980s, and 1990s; Current BMD Plans and Programs; (4) BMD Budgets Over Time.
Download or read book NATO s Anti tactical Ballistic Missile Requirements and Their Relationship to the Strategic Defense Initiative written by David Rubenson and published by RAND Corporation. This book was released on 1987 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report attempts to structure the broad range of issues affecting the potential development of anti-tactical ballistic missile (ATBM) systems by evaluating the relationship among NATO's potential needs for ATBMs, the technologies under development in the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) program, and the political constraints in the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), where ATBMs would be deployed. The authors conclude that planners attempting to improve NATO's air defenses and those attempting to advance SDI research goals are faced with distinctly different problems. Since NATO's requirements have little connection to SDI, an ATBM system intended to advance SDI goals must be based almost entirely on SDI objectives and could cause controversy in the FRG. Conversely, the limited systems of most interest to NATO stand outside the political debate.
Download or read book The anti anti tactical Ballistic Missile Effort written by Chet Herbst and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ballistic Missile Defense Technologies written by Office of Technology Assessment and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative has kindled a national debate over the roles of strategic nuclear weapons, ballistic missile defenses, and arms control in U.S. national security policy. It has also underscored the important ramifications of U.S. military space policy.At the requests of the House Armed Services Committee and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the Office of Technology Assessment of the United States Congress undertook an assessment of the opportunities and risks involved in an accelerated program of research on new ballistic missile defense technologies, including those that might lead to deployment of weapons in space. Debate over the relevant political, military, and technical issues has been hotly contested by participants with widely varying assumptions and points of view. OTA has not attempted to resolve the debate, but rather to try to clarify the issues and enhance the level of discourse.This report examines both the "why" and the "what" of ballistic missile defenses. Why would we want ballistic missile defense weapons if we could have them? Would the advantages of deploying them outweigh the disadvantages? What technologies are under investigation for BMD applications? How might those applications serve our strategic goals? These policy and technology questions interact with one another in complex ways: what seems technologically possible conditions perceptions of policy options, while policy choices shape technological pursuits.
Download or read book The Patriot Air Defense System and the Search for an Antitactical Ballistic Missile Defense written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Army developed the Patriot missile system to defend against high performance aircraft. In the mid-to-late 1980s the Army developed a modified version (Patriot ATM) of the system to defend against tactical missiles (short-range ballistic, cruise, and air-to-surface). PAC-1 mods involved software changes and PAC-2, hardware changes (new fuse and larger fragments for the warhead). Patriot ATM was used during the Persian Gulf War in early 1991 to defend cities and sites in Saudi Arabia and Israel. Patriot's success against Iraqi Scuds spawned conflicting claims about who supported Patriot and who didn't. The legislative history of Patriot ATM is not that simple. It is linked to nearly-decade long congressional efforts to get DOD to respond to the tactical missile threat: first, the Soviet threat to NATO forces; now, the proliferating global threat. The public record reveals a congressional consensus for early deployment of an effective tactical ballistic missile defense (TBMD).
Download or read book Threat Ordering Criteria and Evaluation for an Anti ballistic Missile Defense written by Paul Carr Palmer (Jr) and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The paper is concerned with those criteria by which enemy ballistic missiles are threat ordered. A questionnaire was sent to Army Air Defense Officers at two senior service schools to elicit their opinions. The questionnaires were analyzed using Kendall's coefficient of concordance. Relative weights were determined for each criteria. A linear model was developed using selected criterion and their relative weights. The number of interceptors was fixed. A sample problem shows how one might use the linear model to determine which ballistic missile to engage first. The number of interceptors to be fired at a threat is discussed and a simple non-linear program is formulated where the number of interceptors can vary. (Author).
Download or read book Threat Ordering Criterial and Evaluation for an Anti ballistic Missile Defense written by Paul Carr Palmer and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ballistic Missile Defense Review Report written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ballistic Missile Defense Review has surveyed the spectrum of threat capabilities and possible intent; assessed the current state and potential growth of U.S. BMD technical capabilities; considered opportunities for cooperation with allies and partners in missile defense; and considered the underlying technical, organizational, and programmatic structure of U.S. missile defense. The result is a refocused policy and a comprehensive strategy to improve our missile defenses. The key policy priorities set out earlier are to Defend the United States homeland against the threat of limited ballistic missile attack; Defend against existing regional missile threats to U.S. forces while protecting our allies and partners and enabling them to defend themselves; Test our developing capabilities to ensure that they can reliably and effectively help U.S. forces accomplish their mission; Develop and field BMD capability that is fiscally sustainable over the long term; Base BMD planning on reasonable judgments about current and prospective threats to the United States and its allies and ensure that capabilities are adaptable; and Seek to lead expanded international efforts for missile defense with allies and partners that will provide pragmatic, cost-effective capability. The review determined that the United States possesses sufficient capability to defend the homeland against a ballistic missile attack from states such as North Korea or Iran for the foreseeable future. Moreover, it identified steps that will strengthen homeland defense in the years ahead. The advent of new sensor capabilities and the development of a comprehensive integrated plan for testing and evaluation will better enable us to understand, employ, and further improve BMD capabilities.
Download or read book Test and Evaluation of the Ballistic Missile Defense System written by James B. Michael and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report summarizes the work done in FY03 to develop a systematic engineering-based approach for constructing a high-level architecture for a Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS). We developed six UML use cases to identify the external agents and systems that are involved in a typical missile-defense scenario. Based on these use cases, we developed the top level of a distributed architecture of a BMDS and conducted simulation studies to analyze the network requirements to support such an architecture. We also developed a physical model to analyze the sensor requirements to successfully detect and track a ballistic missile throughout the boost phase.
Download or read book The Patriot Air Defense System and the Search for an Antitactical Ballistic Missile System written by Steven A. Hildreth and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Seize the High Ground written by James A. Walker and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2003 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[Seize the high ground is a] narrative history of the Army's aerospace experience from the 1950s to the present. The focus is on ballistic missile defense, from the early NIKE-HERCULES missile program through the SAFEGUARD acquisition site allowed by the 1972 ABM Treaty to the more advanced 'Star Wars' concepts studies toward the end of the century. [What is] covered is not only the technological response to the threat but the organizational and tactical development of the commands and units responsible for the defense mission"--CMH website.
Download or read book Britain and Ballistic Missile Defence 1942 2002 written by Jeremy Stocker and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defence against ballistic missiles has been a subject of UK political policy and technical investigation since World War II - this book analyses that long history.
