Download or read book A CBO Study Alternatives for Boost Phase Missile Defense written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Congressional Budget Office (CBO) study - prepared at the request of the Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities of the Senate Armed Services Committee - looks at technical, operational, and cost issues related to using a boost-phase intercept (BPI) system to defend the United States against intercontinental ballistic missiles. The study compares the strengths, weaknesses, and costs of five alternative designs for a BPI system - three surface-based and two space-based - that span a range of performance characteristics. In keeping with CBO's mandate to provide objective, impartial analysis, this study makes no recommendations.

Download or read book Alternatives for Boost Phase Missile Defense A CBO Study written by Congressional Budget Office and published by . This book was released on 2013-06-09 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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).

Download or read book Alternatives for Boost phase Missile Defense written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Alternatives for Boost Phase Missile Defense written by and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2004 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Alternatives for Boost Phase Missile Defense A CBO Study July 2004 written by United States. Congressional Budget Office and published by . This book was released on 2004* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Alternatives for Boost phase Missile Defense written by and published by U.S. Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2004 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines technical, operational, and cost issues related to using a boost-phase intercept (BPI) system to defend the United States against intercontinental ballistic missiles.

Download or read book Alternatives for Boost Phase Missile Defense written by Anonymous and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 2004-10-06 edition. Excerpt: ...speed and acceleration would result in the need for fewer interceptors because each one would have a larger footprint. The number of satellites needed to provide full coverage against liquid-fuel ICBMs launched from between 25 and 45 degrees north latitude--a band that encompasses Iran and North Korea--would vary from about 70 to more than 900 for the various combinations of commit time and interceptor speed that the Congressional Budget Office analyzed (see Figure 2-11). (The design implications of different SBI speeds and accelerations are discussed in the next chapter.) Figure 2-11. Number of SBIs Needed for Full Coverage of North Korea and Iran, by Commit Time and Interceptor Speed Source: Congressional Budget Office. Notes: The figures assume that interceptors have an acceleration of lOg, that kill vehicles have a mass of 30 kilograms, and that the life jacket accounts for 50 percent of an SBI's total mass. They also assume that the threat country does not fire more than one ICBM at the same time and that a single interceptor is shot at an ICBM (which is why these numbers differ from the ones shown in Summary Figures 3 and 4). SBI = space-based interceptor; ICBM = intercontinental ballistic missile; km/sec = kilometers per second. Actual number of SBIs is 5,455. a Solid-fuel ICBMs would present a greater challenge to a space-based BPI system, just as they would to a surfacebased system. The shorter burn time of solid-fuel boosters effectively reduces the footprint of each space-based interceptor. Consequently, the spacing between SBIs must be reduced, increasing the size of the constellation. The number of satellites needed to defend against a solidfuel ICBM launched from the aforementioned latitude band would be several times...

Download or read book Options for Deploying Missile Defenses in Europe written by and published by Congressional Budget Office. This book was released on 2009 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the cost and potential defensive capability of the proposed European ground-based midcourse defense system. Also explores alternatives.

Download or read book Strategic Defenses written by Bonita J. Dombey and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Cbo Study Options for Deploying Missile Defenses in Europe written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Options for Deploying Missile Defenses in Europe written by and published by Congressional Budget Office. This book was released on 2009 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the cost and potential defensive capability of the proposed European ground-based midcourse defense system. Also explores alternatives.

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 Options for Deploying Missile Defenses in Europe written by and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book CBO Budget Options Vol 2 August 2009 written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Budget Options Spending options written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Budget Options written by United States. Congressional Budget Office and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Budget Options V 2 August 2009 written by United States. Congressional Budget Office and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: