Download or read book Missile Survey Ballistic and Cruise Missiles of Foreign Countries written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report provides a current inventory of ballistic and cruise missiles throughout the world and discusses implications for U.S. national security policy. (Note: the Defense Threat Reduction Agency's Weapons of Mass Destruction Terms Reference Handbook defines a ballistic missile as "a missile that is guided during powered flight and unguided during free flight when the trajectory that it follows is subject only to the external influences of gravity and atmospheric drag" and a cruise missile as "a long-range, low-flying guided missile that can be launched from air, sea, and land.") Ballistic and cruise missile development and proliferation continue to pose a threat to United States national security interests both at home and abroad. While approximately 16 countries currently produce ballistic missiles, they have been widely proliferated to many countries - some of whom are viewed as potential adversaries of the United States. Nineteen countries produce cruise missiles which are also widely proliferated and many analysts consider cruise missile proliferation to be of more concern than that of ballistic missile proliferation, primarily due to their low threshold of use, availability and affordability, and accuracy. This report will be updated annually.
Download or read book Missile Survey written by Andrew Feickert and published by Silverwood Institute. This book was released on 2012-10-14 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book North Korean Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States written by Steven A. Hildreth and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report briefly reviews North Korea's ballistic missile program. In summer 2007, North Korea tested modern, short-range missiles. In February 2009, South Korea reported the DPRK had deployed a new intermediate-range missile.
Download or read book Foreign Missile Developments and the Ballistic Missile Threat Through 2015 written by Barry Leonard and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Intell. Community produces annual reports containing the latest intelligence on ballistic missile (BM) develop. and threats and a discussion of non-missile threat options. This paper is an unclassified summary of the Nat. Intell. Estimate that is the 4th annual report. It describes: new BM develop. and their projections of likely BM threats to the U.S., U.S. interests overseas, and military forces or allies through 2015; updates assessments of theater BM forces worldwide; discusses the evolving proliferation environment; and provides a summary of forward-based threats and cruise missiles. Examines future BM capabilities of several countries that have BM and BM develop. programs: Russia, China, N. Korea, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Syria, India, and Pakistan.
Download or read book Provisional Agenda for the 20th Session to be Held at the Palais Des Nations Geneva Starting on Tuesday 10 December 2002 written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The National Intelligence Estimate on the Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on International Security, Proliferation, and Federal Services and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ballistic and Cruise Missile Threat written by National Air and Space Intelligence Center (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overall, the threats posed by ballistic missile delivery systems are likely to continue to increase and grow more complex over the next decade. Current trends indicate adversary ballistic missile systems are becoming more mobile, survivable, reliable, and accurate while also achieving longer ranges. Prelaunch survivability is also likely to increase as potential adversaries strengthen their denial and deception measures and increasingly base missiles on mobile sea- and land-based platforms. Adversarial nations are adopting technical and operational countermeasures to defeat missile defenses. Ballistic missiles are already in widespread use and will continue to increase in number and variety. The availability of weapons of mass destruction for use on ballistic missiles vastly increases the significance of this threat. Despite an ongoing reduction in the size of the Russian strategic missile force, Russia probably will retain the largest force of strategic ballistic missiles outside the United States. China is producing technologically advanced ballistic missiles and has sold ballistic missile technology to other countries. North Korea is continuing development of the TD-2 ICBM/SLV, has unveiled a new road-mobile ICBM, has an IRBM in development, and maintains a large SRBM inventory. North Korea has exported ballistic missile systems and will probably continue to do so. Iran has ambitious ballistic missile and space launch development programs and continues to attempt to increase the range, lethality, and accuracy of its ballistic missile force. Iranian ballistic missile forces continue to train extensively in highly publicized exercises. The proliferation of LACMs will expand in the next decade. At least nine countries will be involved in producing these weapons. The majority of new LACMs will be very accurate, conventionally armed, and available for export. The high accuracy of many LACMs will allow them to inflict serious damage, even when the missiles are armed only with conventional warheads. US defense systems could be severely stressed by low-flying stealthy cruise missiles that can simultaneously attack a target from several directions.
Download or read book The Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Containing Missile Proliferation written by Dinshaw Mistry and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The proliferation of ballistic missiles that can deliver weapons of mass destruction halfway across the world is a matter of growing urgency and concern, as is the fate of agreements limiting the development of such deadly weapons. The Bush administration’s scrapping of the ABM Treaty and pursuit of a huge National Missile Defense initiative are dramatic evidence of this concern. Yet there remains much uncertainty about the viability of missile defense. If defenses fall short, strong security regimes will be necessary to contain missile proliferation. Since 1987, more than thirty states have agreed to restrict their transfer of missiles and related technologies under the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR). During the MTCR’s first decade, several regional powers were thwarted from advancing their missile ambitions. Subsequently, however, states such as North Korea, Iran, Pakistan, India, and Israel have tested medium-range missiles and others have expanded their missile arsenals. Dinshaw Mistry critically examines the successes and limitations of the MTCR, and suggests five practical ways to strengthen the regime. The author’s exhaustive research offers new and detailed insights on the technology and politics of missile programs in Iran, Iraq, North Korea, Pakistan, India, Israel, Egypt, South Korea, Taiwan, and other countries. Mistry also shows how international cooperation, security regimes, and U.S. foreign policies of engagement and containment with these states can halt their missile programs. Mistry’s book is the first comprehensive study of the MTCR and of international efforts to contain missile proliferation. Policymakers, scholars, and the general reader will find this book a valuable contribution to the subjects of arms control, ballistic missile proliferation, multilateral cooperation, and international security regimes. For the author's update, go to http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/books/UpdateApril2009.pdf
Download or read book Missile Proliferation written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Arms Control, International Security, and Science and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Feasibility of Third World Advanced Ballistic and Cruise Missile Threat Volume 2 Emerging Cruise Missile Threat written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Emerging Cruise Missile Threat", study recently released by the National Defense industrial Association (NDIA) Strike, Land Attack & Air Defense Committee shows how the possibility of long range cruise missile attack by Third World countries is developing rapidly into a serious threat for U.S. interests. Current technology enables the Third World to field a large number of low-cost land-attack cruise missiles that can overwhelm capable defenses. Sophisticated land-attack cruise missiles can be constructed or modified from technologies or components currently available worldwide. The study Is Volume 2 of an industry series on the Feasibility of Third World Advanced Ballistic and Cruise Missile Threat. Volume 1, "The Long-Range Ballistic Missile Threat", was presented at the 67th MORSS at West Point In June 1999. Technologies exploited in cruise missilery include GPS/INS (Global Positioning System/Inertial Navigation System), compact avionics, flight programming software, stealth and powerful, lightweight jet propulsion systems. "The Emerging Cruise Missile Threat" focuses on the technical feasibility of production methods likely to be used by Third World countries to improve their cruise missile capability. Working exclusively from unclassified sources, the study reviews the lessons learned from historical cruise missile development programs. It assesses potential cruise missile improvements available to Third World countries. It evaluates possible alternatives to land-attack cruise missiles. It analyzes recent trends in Third World asymmetric threats. And it provides a comprehensive global cruise missile inventory, Identifying more than 80,000 cruise missiles worldwide.
Download or read book Guided Missiles in Foreign Countries written by Library of Congress. Legislative Reference Service and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Trappings of Power written by Janne E. Nolan and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the beginning of the crisis precipitated by Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in August 1990, the threat posed by Iraq's arsenal of ballistic missiles has been the focus of international attention. In the opening days of the U.S.-led military counteroffensive beginning on January 16, 1992, Iraq launched ballistic missiles against population centers in Israel and military bases in Saudi Arabia. The attacks intensified the terror of the war and prompted renewed efforts by the multinational force to destroy Saddam Hussein's military machine. The countries aligned against Iraq were prepared for attacks by chemically armed missiles, but Iraq's missile force proved to be of little military consequence. The missiles that survived the opening hours of Operation Desert Storm were conventionally armed, inaccurate and unreliable. Most of those that were actually launched either were intercepted by American antimissile defenses or failed to hit vital targets. But the political impact of the missiles was inestimable. The strikes symbolized Iraq's determination to prosecute the war no matter what the cost. By threatening to involve Israel, they created severe tensions and posed the risk that multinational military coalition would be dissolved, and they underscored the potential vulnerability of all the states in the region to Iraqi aggression. In this book, Janne E. Nolan argues that the use of missiles is a harbinger of the altered international security environment confronting the Untied States and its allies in the late twentieth century. Long believed to be a distant prospect, the adoption of technological resources to missile development is already occurring in over a dozen developing countries, many of them long-standing regional antagonists. These capabilities present complicated challenges to American interests and foreign policy, challenges that have only begun to be explored as a result of the Iraqi crisis. The author examines the evolution
Download or read book Missile Contagion written by Dennis M. Gormley and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2008-05-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most books on missile proliferation focus on the spread of ballistic missiles or cruise missiles, not both. Gormley's work, however, explains why cruise missiles are beginning to spread widely, but does so by explaining their spread in the context of ballistic missile proliferation. It therefore treats both ballistic and cruise missile proliferation as related phenomenon. This work also focuses evenhandedly on both nonproliferation and defense policy (including missile defenses and counterforce doctrines) to fashion a set of integrated strategies for dealing with ballistic and cruise missile proliferation. Signs of missile contagion abound. In this study, Gormley argues that a series of rapid and surprising developments since 2005 suggest that the proliferation of missiles capable of delivering either weapons of mass destruction or highly accurate conventional payloads is approaching a critical threshold. The surprising fact is that land-attack cruise missiles, not ballistic missiles, constitute the primary problem. Flying under the radar, both literally and figuratively, land-attack cruise missiles add a dangerous new dimension to protecting U.S. security interests and preventing regional military instability. Gormley asserts that cruise missiles are not destined to supplant ballistic missiles; rather, they are likely to join them, because when both are employed together, they could severely test even the best missile defenses. Worse yet, Gormley argues, land-attack cruise missiles are increasingly being linked to preemptive strike doctrines, which are fueling regional arms races and crisis instability. This work explains why an epidemic of cruise missile proliferation, long forecasted by analysts, has only recently begun to occur. After first assessing the state of ballistic missile proliferation, Gormley explores the role of three factors in shaping the spread of cruise missiles. These include specialized knowledge needed for missile development; narrative messages about reasons for acquiring cruise missiles; and norms of state behavior about missile nonproliferation policy and defense doctrine. This book then addresses the policy adjustments needed to stanch the spread of cruise missiles in the first place, or, barring that, cope militarily with a more demanding missile threat consisting of both cruise and ballistic missiles.
Download or read book China written by Shirley A. Kan and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ballistic Missiles and Missile Defense in Asia written by Michael D. Swaine and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 2019 Missile Defense Review written by Department Of Defense and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-01-19 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2019 Missile Defense Review - January 2019 According to a senior administration official, a number of new technologies are highlighted in the report. The review looks at "the comprehensive environment the United States faces, and our allies and partners face. It does posture forces to be prepared for capabilities that currently exist and that we anticipate in the future." The report calls for major investments from both new technologies and existing systems. This is a very important and insightful report because many of the cost assessments for these technologies in the past, which concluded they were too expensive, are no longer applicable. Why buy a book you can download for free? We print this book so you don't have to. First you gotta find a good clean (legible) copy and make sure it's the latest version (not always easy). Some documents found on the web are missing some pages or the image quality is so poor, they are difficult to read. We look over each document carefully and replace poor quality images by going back to the original source document. We proof each document to make sure it's all there - including all changes. If you find a good copy, you could print it using a network printer you share with 100 other people (typically its either out of paper or toner). If it's just a 10-page document, no problem, but if it's 250-pages, you will need to punch 3 holes in all those pages and put it in a 3-ring binder. Takes at least an hour. It's much more cost-effective to just order the latest version from Amazon.com This book includes original commentary which is copyright material. Note that government documents are in the public domain. We print these large documents as a service so you don't have to. The books are compact, tightly-bound, full-size (8 1/2 by 11 inches), with large text and glossy covers. 4th Watch Publishing Co. is a HUBZONE SDVOSB. https: //usgovpub.com
