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	Navy League of the United States - Citizens in Support of the Sea Services
		The first line of defense against some of Pyongyang’s missiles likely would be the Navy’s sea-based missile defense system, which in recent years has compiled a nearly perfect test record.
		Hostile missiles in the terminal phase of attack would be left to two antimissile systems, the Patriot Advanced Capability-3 and the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system.
		Today’s Ballistic Missile Defense System is the latest evolution of late President Ronald Reagan’s dream of breaking away from the concept of mutually assured destruction that had been a keystone of U.S. national security policy for almost four decades.
	www.navyleague.org /sea_power/dec06-40.php (1667 words)

	Aegis combat system - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Aegis system is being enhanced to act in a Theater Missile Defense role, to counter short- and medium-range ballistic missiles of the variety typically employed by rogue states; see Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System.
		The Aegis system was involved in an incident in which USS Vincennes mistakenly shot down Iran Air Flight 655 in 1988 resulting in 290 civilian fatalities.
		The Aegis system correctly identified and reported flight 665's civilian IFF (identification friend or foe) number, and that it was only flying at 385 knots airspeed; however the crew of the Vincennes misinterpreted this information.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aegis_combat_system (851 words)

	Articles - Guided missile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		After the boost-stage ballistic missiles follow a trajectory mainly determined by ballistics, the guidance is for relatively small deviations from that.
		The accuracy of these systems was fairly poor, but post-war development by most military forces improved the basic inertial platform concept to the point where it could be used as the guidance system on ICBMs flying thousands of miles.
		Today the ballistic missile represents the only strategic deterrent in most military forces; the USAFs continued support of manned bombers is considered by most to be entirely political in nature.
	www.efireplaces.net /articles/Guided_missile (1374 words)

	MissileThreat ::
		An explanation of what ballistic missiles are, how to defend against them, and the fundamental issues which drive the debate over whether or not to defend America.
		Ballistic missiles may be destroyed during their flight using systems based on land, sea, air, or space.
		Each system has particular virtues and vices: a robust and layered defense is necessary to provide for the strategic defense of the United States.
	www.missilethreat.com /systems/aegis_usa.html (396 words)

	Naval Station Pearl Harbor Ford Island Development (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The test involved the launch of a Standard Missile 3 (SM-3 Block IA) from the USS Shiloh, an Aegis-class cruiser, modified to perform the ballistic missile defense mission, and a hit to kill intercept of a ”separating” target, meaning that the target warhead separated from its booster rocket.
		One Aegis destroyer, equipped with a modified version of the Aegis ballistic missile defense weapon system, linked with a land-based missile defense radar to evaluate the ability of the ship’s missile defense system to receive and utilize target cueing data via the missile defense system’s command, control, battle management and communications architecture.
		Raytheon Missile Systems of Tucson, Arizona is the prime contractor for the SM-3 missile and all previous variants of Standard Missile.
	www.hawaii.navy.mil /AegisMissileDefense/aegis_Shiloh.htm (766 words)

	CBC News Indepth: Ballistic Missile Defence
		Missile defence was well down on the agenda in the administrations of George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton.
		The ballistic missile-defence system is designed to give the U.S. the power to protect itself from incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), whether launched by accident or as an attack from rogue states.
		The incoming missile is knocked out by the energy that is transferred in the collision between the two missiles.
	www.cbc.ca /news/background/us_missiledefence (924 words)

	Lockheed Martin Corporation :: Lockheed Martin Awarded $979 Million for Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense
		Aegis BMD went to sea with its initial operating capability in October 2004 and the latest version, Aegis BMD 3.6, was certified for tactical deployment by the U.S. Navy and MDA in September 2006.
		Ultimately, 15 Aegis destroyers and three Aegis cruisers will be outfitted with the ability to engage short to intermediate range ballistic missile threats and support other BMDS engagements using the Aegis BMD Weapon System and the SM-3 missile.
		The Aegis Weapon System is the world's premier naval surface defense system and is the foundation for Aegis BMD, the primary component of the sea- based element of the United States' BMDS.
	sev.prnewswire.com /aerospace-defense/20070227/CLTU28927022007-1.html (732 words)

	Missile Defense Test Yields Successful 'Hit to Kill' Intercept (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		It was the seventh successful intercept test involving the sea-based component of the nation's ballistic missile defense system in eight attempts, Missile Defense Agency officials noted.
		This was Shiloh's first missile defense test since completing modifications and upgrades to its SPY-1 radar and advanced communications system to make it capable of serving as a sea-based missile defense platform.
		One Aegis destroyer, equipped with a modified version of the Aegis ballistic missile defense weapon system, linked with a land-based missile defense radar to evaluate the ability of the ship's missile defense system to receive and use target data via the missile defense system's command, control, battle management and communications architecture.
	www.military.com /features/0,15240,103040,00.html (511 words)

	Lockheed Martin :: Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense Weapon System Guides Missile to Seventh Successful Target Intercept
		Ultimately 15 Aegis destroyers and three Aegis cruisers will be outfitted with the capability to conduct LRSandT and engagement of short- and medium-range ballistic missile threats using the Aegis BMD Weapon System and its SM-3.
		The Aegis Weapon System is the world's premier naval surface defense system and is the foundation for Aegis BMD, the primary component of the sea-based element of the United States' BMDS.
		Lockheed Martin is a world leader in systems integration and the development of air and missile defense systems and technologies, including the first operational hit-to-kill missile defense system, PAC-3.
	sev.prnewswire.com /aerospace-defense/20060622/PHTH05822062006-1.html (1023 words)

	Navy League of the United States - Citizens in Support of the Sea Services
		The Missile Defense Agency is developing the BMDS to provide an integrated “layered defense” against ballistic missiles of all ranges, in all regions of the world and in all phases of flight.
		The deployment of the defensive system is structured in incremental two-year “blocks.” The first block period is 2004.
		A Minuteman III ballistic missile was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. The Lake Erie, stationed approximately 100 miles off the coast, detected and tracked the LRBM in its boost phase of flight — an Aegis first.
	www.navyleague.org /sea_power/sep_04_41.php (1717 words)

	MissileThreat ::
		The survey, entitled Missile Defense and the Role of the States, was conducted jointly over the last year by the Anchorage-based Institute of the North and the Claremont Institute of Claremont, California.
		According to Missile Defense Agency spokesman Chris Taylor, a dummy enemy ballistic missile was launched from the Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai, Hawaii, simulating a missile attack on U.S. territory, while a shorter-range missile was fired from a Navy aircraft and aimed at the Aegis cruiser U.S.S. Lake Erie.
		The SM-3, which the U.S. Navy and Japan’s MSDF plan to deploy on Aegis warships, is capable of intercepting incoming ballistic missiles in space at altitudes of 200 to 300 km.
	www.missilethreat.com (2776 words)

	Lockheed Martin Overview
		Aegis plays a crucial role in ballistic-missile defense, which is among the Pentagon's top priorities, with $10 billion in the budget for the coming fiscal year.
		Aegis ended such talk, and the Navy and the defense contractor have continually upgraded it to meet new threats.
		Myers pointed to Aegis' record of shooting down four of five intercontinental ballistic missiles in tests since 2002 as proof of the ability of the Aegis ballistic-missile-defense system.
	www.brandywinepeace.com /overview.html (1904 words)

	On Missile Defense, Pentagon Keeps the Cart in Front of the Horse
		The mock warhead in the test remained attached to the much larger missile body of the target missile, rather than separating from the missile, as one would expect in a real attack by missiles of this range.
		In essence, the missile body acted as a large radar beacon attached to the warhead, since it gives a large radar reflection and makes tracking the target by the missile defense radar (the SPY radar on the Aegis cruiser) much easier.
		The Pentagon does not plan a realistic test using a mock warhead that separates from the missile body until late 2005, which is after the planned deployment date of mid-2005 for this system.
	www.ucsusa.org /news/press_release/on-missile-defense-pentagon-keeps-the-cart-in-front-of-the-horse.html (398 words)

	CNN.com - Bush rolls out missile defense system - Dec. 18, 2002
		In addition, a system designed to destroy short-range and medium-range missiles would be deployed aboard Navy ships equipped with the advanced Aegis radar system.
		Bush made missile defense a key promise of his 2000 campaign, and early in his administration he was sharply criticized by many Democrats, Russia, China and several key European allies for pushing to withdraw from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty of 1972 so he could pursue the program.
		The goal of a missile defense shield dates to the Reagan administration, when the program was labeled by some as "Star Wars" and at times has included talk of space-based systems.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/US/12/17/bush.missile (725 words)

	Defense Tech: ANTI-MISSILE PASSES TEST AT SEA
		We give the missile defense program a pretty hard time around here, especially when they don't even manage to pass their own dumbed-down tests.
		The target rocket was fired from the U.S. Pacific Missile Range Facility at Barking Sands, Kauai, and was hit a few minutes later from a Standard Missile-3 interceptor fired from the USS Lake Erie guided missile cruiser.
		Philip Coyle, the Pentagon's former chief of testing and evaluation and a normally vicious skeptic of the missile defense system, was muted in his reactions to yesterday's test.
	www.defensetech.org /archives/001409.html (540 words)

	World Tribune.com: U.S. to deploy Aegis destroyer to guard Israel from Iraqi Scuds
		The Missile Defense Agency and the U.S. Navy said the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense system successfully intercepted a ballistic missile launched from the Pacific Missile Range Facility on the island of Kauai, Hawaii.
		On Thursday, a developmental Standard Missile 3 [SM-3] was fired from the Aegis ballistic missile defense cruiser USS Lake Erie and acquired, tracked and diverted into the target.
		Raytheon Missile Systems is the prime contractor for the development of the SM-3 Missile.
	www.worldtribune.com /worldtribune/WTARC/2002/ss_mideast_11_21.html (468 words)

	''Incorrect System Setting'' Dooms Aegis Missile Test
		An "incorrect system setting" aboard the Aegis-class cruiser USS Lake Erie is behind a failed Dec. 7 test of the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense system, U.S. Missile Defense Agency officials said Dec. 7.
		The ballistic missile target was launched from the Pacific Missile Range Facility in Hawaii and the aircraft target was launched from a U.S. Navy aircraft.
		Aegis is the maritime weapon system of choice for the United States and allies Japan, South Korea, Norway, Spain and Australia.
	www.aviationweek.com /aw/generic/story_generic.jsp?channel=aerospacedaily&id=news/AEG12116.xml (483 words)

	U.S. Navy Studies Limited Missile Defense
		"A viable regional and terminal sea-based ballistic missile defense system is important to ensure the safety of U.S. forces and the flow of those forces through foreign ports and airfields when required," he said.
		Thomas Fargo, commander of U.S. Pacific Command, ranks finding a defense against the most widespread variety of short-range ballistic missiles among his most urgent unfunded needs, according to a description of the project Clark provided lawmakers.
		The $30 million program would include a test intercept of a U.S. Missile Defense Agency Lance target, a missile that can be instrumented and used in tests to simulate enemy short-range ballistic missiles, said an industry official familiar with this fledgling project.
	www.space.com /spacenews/archive04/missilearch_040504.html (565 words)

	aegis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Aegis BMD system is the maritime component of the MDA’s Ballistic Missile System.
		The mission was completed by the Aegis BMD cruiser USS Shiloh (CG67), using the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense’s shipboard weapon system and the Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block 1A interceptor missile.
		Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance • 100 N Pitt Street • Alexandria VA, 22314 • 703-299-0060 • info@missiledefenseadvocacy.org
	www.missiledefenseadvocacy.org /index/aegis.html (394 words)

	FLIGHT TESTS FOR AEGIS BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE - CDI
		The SM-3 was launched by the USS Erie Aegis cruiser against an Aries target missile, which has been reported as having been five times longer and a third wider than any medium-range ballistic missile that the SMD is being designed to shoot down.
		An SM-3 missile was launched from the Aegis cruiser USS Lake Erie to counter an Orbital Sciences Test Target Vehicle that was launched from the Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kaui, Hawaii.
		The SM-3 missile had an altitude of 93 miles at the time of impact; because of this, its flight time was shorter by about a minute and a half.
	www.cdi.org /missile-defense/tests-aegis.cfm (579 words)

	The Marshall Institute - Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System
		The Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense is the sea-based element of the Missile Defense Agency’s Ballistic Missile Defense System.
		Aegis BMD is on Ballistic Missile Defense alert status, prepared to perform its strategic role in Homeland Defense.
		The Aegis BMD program achieved its sixth successful intercept test in seven attempts this past November, destroying a "separating" target on its first attempt.
	www.marshall.org /article.php?id=363 (198 words)

	Naval Technology - Ticonderoga - Guided Missile Cruisers
		In November 2002, the Standard Missile SM-3, being developed by Raytheon, successfully intercepted a ballistic missile in space from USS Lake Erie (CG 70).
		Aegis BMD will be the main sea-based component of the US Ballistic Missile Defense System.
		The ship's main guns are two BAE Systems Land & Armaments (formerly United Defense) mk 45 127mm/54 guns capable of firing 32kg shells to a target range of 22km at a maximum firing rate of 20 rounds a minute.
	www.naval-technology.com /projects/ticonderoga (1345 words)

	Arms Control Association: Arms Control Today: Missile Defense Funding Soars to New Heights
		These systems, as well as the nascent Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) to intercept ballistic missiles near the end of their flights, are singled out for the largest slices of funding.
		The GMD system last intercepted a target in October 2002, and at that time it employed a prototype interceptor that is not the same as the current model deployed in Alaska and California.
		CRS national defense specialist Steven Hildreth similarly found GMD testing data to be “insufficient” for drawing a conclusion about whether the system could destroy a long-range ballistic missile fired at the United States.
	www.armscontrol.org /act/2006_03/MARCH-missiledefense.asp (1043 words)

	Military & Aerospace Electronics - Sensors light path to defeating incoming
		Aegis is the U.S. military’s primary maritime surface defense system and is the foundation for Aegis BMD-the primary component of the sea-based element of the U.S. ballistic missile defense system.
		Ultimately 15 Aegis destroyers and three Aegis cruisers will be outfitted with the capability to conduct long-range surveillance and tracking (LRSandT) and engagement of short- and medium-range ballistic missile threats using the Aegis BMD and the Standard Missile-3 (SM-3).
		The EKV mission is to engage high-speed ballistic missile warheads in the midcourse phase of flight and to destroy them using only the force of impact, or hit-to-kill.
	mae.pennnet.com /Articles/Article_Display.cfm?Section=ARTCL&PUBLICATION_ID=32&ARTICLE_ID=280491&C=Feat (2764 words)

	Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense Weapon System Guides Missile to Seventh Successful Target Intercept @ Industry News ...
		This Missile Defense Agency-sponsored test -- Flight Test Maritime-10(FTM-10) -- marks the seventh time the Aegis BMD Weapon System hassuccessfully guided an SM-3 to a ballistic missile target intercept and the second time that the system intercepted a ballistic missile with a separating reentry vehicle.
		The SPY-1 radar, augmented by the Aegis BSP signal processor, which is in development and will be installed in Aegis BMD ships beginning in 2010,provides an advanced discrimination capability to defeat more complex ballistic missile threats.
		The Aegis Weapon System is the world's premier naval surface defense system and is the foundation for Aegis BMD, the primary component of thesea-based element of the United States ' BMDS.
	www.advancedimagingpro.com /article/article.jsp?id=2908&siteSection=3 (1087 words)

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