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The Danger Of The Low-Cost Cruise Missile Cruise missiles such as the Raytheon Tomahawk have proven themselves as an extremely cost-effective method of delivering a wide range of ordinance with pin-point accuracy against targets that may be up to 1,000 miles from the launch point. The fact that the German V1 "flying bomb", perhaps the first practical implementation of the cruise missile concept, was also powered by a pulsejet speaks volumes for the practicality of using such a powerplant today. The V1s of WW2 were launched using a catapult system powered by a mix of nitric acid and hydrogen peroxide. www.aardvark.co.nz /pjet/cruise.shtml

The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962: A Political Perspective After 40 Years If the Cuban Missile Crisis was the most dangerous passage of the Cold War, the most dangerous moment of the Cuban Missile Crisis was the evening of Saturday, 27 October 1962, when the resolution of the crisis—war or peace— appeared to hang in the balance. Images of Soviet missile and antiaircraft installations taken by U-2 spyplanes and U.S. Navy low-level reconnaissance aircraft in October-November 1962 used to brief President Kennedy and his advisers. Late the night before, the CIA had produced detailed photo intelligence identifying Soviet nuclear missile installations under construction on the island of Cuba, some ninety miles off the Florida coast; now the president and his men confronted the dangerous decision of how the United States should respond. www.gwu.edu /~nsarchiv/nsa/cuba_mis_cri

Cruise Missile On the up-side, the missile has been completed (apart from some minor work that is relatively inconsequential) and, to ensure that the testing will proceed at sometime in the New Year, it is no longer in my possession -- but it is in safe hands. Obviously the goal of this website is not to provide terrorists or other nefarious types with the plans for a working cruise missile but to prove the point that nations need to be prepared for this type of sophisticated attack from within their own borders. Some time ago I wrote an article in which I suggested that it would not be difficult for terrorists to build their own relatively sophisticated cruise missiles using off-the-shelf components and materials. www.interestingprojects.com /cruisemissile

The Nike Missile System: A Concise Historical Overview The first was a requirement to produce a missile with improved speed, range and altitude capabilities to defend against a new generation of faster and smaller aerial targets, in particular, supersonic aircraft and cruise missiles. Nike missiles were also deployed overseas with U.S. forces in Europe and Asia, by the armed forces of many NATO nations (Germany, France, Denmark, Italy, Belgium, Norway, the Netherlands, Greece and Turkey), and by U.S. allies in Asia (Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan). This rotating, search-type radar enabled the missile battery to detect aircraft and to positively identity friendly or hostile aircraft by means of electronic signals generated by either IFF ("Identification Friend or Foe") or SIF ("Selective Identification Feature") equipment. alpha.fdu.edu /~bender/N-view.html

Report:The Marketing of Missile Defense 1994-2000 - World Policy Institute - Research Project Republican missile defense efforts were held in check during the first two years of the "Gingrich revolution," in large part due to concerns among Republican "deficit hawks" about the program’s staggering price tag, which the Congressional Budget Office had pegged at $31 to $60 billion. Staunch supporters of missile defense in Congress want to start deployment immediately, and they have made it clear that they do not intend to settle for the limited National Missile Defense system that the Clinton administration is marketing to the international community and the American public. In the context of consistent, good faith negotiating by the U.S., the North Korean missile threat could be eliminated for an investment that would be a tiny fraction of the price tag for deploying an NMD system. www.worldpolicy.org /projects/arms/reports/tangled.htm

The Heritage Foundation: Missile Defense Questions whether the criticisms leveled at the missile defense system are motivated by policy considerations and not on the basis of concern about whether the... Fielding an effective global missile defense system is a pressing need because ballistic missile defense programs are lagging behind the emerging missile threat. In the past two years there have been 11 tests of various types of missile defense systems in which an intercept was a possibility. www.heritage.org /Research/MissileDefense/index.cfm

Bush's Latest Missile-Defense Folly - Why spend billions on a system that might never work? By Fred Kaplan Further tests are scheduled—three this year, 12 next year, five in 2006, and seven in 2007—but, Christie notes, "the adequacy of this testing cannot be fully assessed because detailed objectives for most of the tests... The upgraded version of the Patriot air-defense missile, known as PAC-3, has shown "shortcomings" in operational testing. The anti-missile missiles that Bush plans to deploy later this year are the simplest elements of this system. slate.msn.com /id/2097087

FIM-92A Stinger Weapons System: RMP & Basic The Stinger missile, a full-dimensional protection weapon, is the Army's system for short-range air defense that provides the ground maneuver commander force protection against low-altitude airborne targets such as fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, unmanned aerial vehicles, and cruise missiles. Considering the missile seeker's relatively small field of view, the capability to accurately direct the seeker onto a target being tracked by the MMS is a significant advantage. Operational deficiencies were discovered during testing of the Stinger-RMP missile in the late 1980s, and the Secretary of Defense directed the Army to correct the deficiencies and then operationally test the fixes. www.fas.org /man/dod-101/sys/land/stinger.htm

Missile Defense News at SPACEWAR.com A US navy missile over the Pacific intercepted a target missile, which the military on Thursday said was the fifth successful test of a system to shield North America. With the failure of the latest test of the U.S. national missile defense system in December, the Pentagon seems to now be engaged in semantic gymnastics, declining to say whether the system is operational or not, and suggesting it never promised it would be. These Aegis Weapon Systems will equip the next three Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, the 60th, 61st and 62nd ships of the class, and will provide the Navy with an adaptable open architecture weapons system that can easily and affordably be upgraded as technology evolves or threats change. www.spacewar.com /missiledefense.html

Missile And you know full well the consequences of launching those missiles which are equipped with nuclear warheads and the great devastation that that'll bring. As far as survival of the system is concerned, the missile system is dispersed. and are responsible for ten missiles, each with one nuclear warhead on 'em -- and you could be responsible for your whole squadron's missiles of fifty nuclear weapons, fifty missiles with nuclear weapons on each one. www.geocities.com /emruf4/missile.html

Army Technology - Patriot Missile - Air Defense System The target acquisition system in the missile acquires the target in the terminal phase of flight and transmits the data using the TVM downlink via the ground radar to the Engagement Control Station for final course correction calculations. As the missile approaches the target, the TVM guidance system is activated and the missile is steered towards the target. A contract for 88 missiles was placed in December 2002 and another for 12 in March 2003. www.army-technology.com /projects/patriot

National Missile Defense The objective of the National Missile Defense (NMD) program is to develop and maintain the option to deploy a cost effective, operationally effective, and Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty compliant system that will protect the United States against limited ballistic missile threats, including accidental or unauthorized launches or Third World threats. During flight, the GBI is sent information from the NMD BMC2 through the IFICS to update the location of the incoming ballistic missile, enabling the GBI onboard sensor system to identify and home-in on the assigned target. The NMD system is composed of several elements which are required to perform the key functions involved in a ballistic missile defense engagement. fas.org /spp/starwars/program/nmd

Naval Forces' Capability for Theater Missile Defense -- Executive Summary Thus, without a land attack cruise missile defense capability to supplement their ballistic missile defense capabilities, naval forces' ability to influence events ashore will be limited to attacks on stationary targets with standoff missiles and air-delivered ordnance. Although ship-launched interceptor missiles of suitable range are available, the sensors that would permit them to engage cruise missiles not observable from the ship have not been developed or otherwise acquired. The successful engagement of hostile cruise missiles in a littoral environment will depend on advances in radar performance in a high-clutter background; networked, distributed, surveillance capabilities; low-observable detection technology; and data processing and fusion. www.nap.edu /execsumm/0309074266.html

washingtonpost.com: Missile Defense The commander of the Air Force Space Command denied yesterday that his 500 nuclear-armed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles are mere "Cold War icons" and said he is preparing alternative uses for the ICBMs, including arming them with conventional warheads to attack surface or deeply buried targets. Missile Defense Director Moves to End Test Glitches: Equipment Review Ordered; Admiral to Oversee Preparations Canada Rejects Missile Shield Plan: Decision Is a Snub to Bush, Who Had Sought Partnership www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/nation/specials/nationalsecurity/nationalmissiledefense

Moving Beyond Missile Defense: A Joint Project of INESAP and NAPF The project "Moving Beyond Missile Defense" is developing alternatives to the emerging missile race. The best response to these threats is the establishment of a comprehensive security framework that prohibits weapons of mass destruction, missile and anti-missile systems and the weaponization of space. An arms race between missiles, anti-missile systems and space weapons would move the world closer towards annihilation. www.mbmd.org /missilefreezepetition.html

Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat The number of missiles in its inventory is likely to decline further compared with Cold War levels in that large numbers of Soviet strategic missiles deployed in the 1970s and 1980s are scheduled to be retired. However, the Commission is of the view that cruise missiles have a number of characteristics which could be seen as increasingly valuable in fulfilling the aspirations of emerging ballistic missile states. China's 1996 missile firings in the Taiwan Strait, aimed at intimidating Taiwan in the lead-up to its presidential election, provoked a sharp confrontation with the United States. www.house.gov /hasc/testimony/105thcongress/BMThreat.htm

FON - Minuteman II Missile Launch A Minuteman II missile was launched from Vandenberg Airforce Base at 7:00 PM carrying a dummy war head to a target in the central pacific were it would be intercepted as part of the anti-ballistic missile program. If the weather is fair and there are no technical difficulties the missile will be fired a the beginning of the launch window, which was 19:00-23:00. These photos were taken from the Ronald Regan Library in Simi Valley, which was quite fitting since the target location for the missile was the Ronald Reagan Missile Test Site on Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands. www.freqofnature.com /photos/mmii1014

frontline: missile wars PBS Through interviews with staunch proponents, skeptical scientists, and military and intelligence experts, the one-hour documentary investigates this multi-billion dollar--yet still unproven--weapons system, and explores how national missile defense fits into the nation's military strategy after 9/11. watch 'missile wars' · timeline · producer's chat · interviews · quiz: missile test · discussion Supporters say national missile defense is essential to protecting America from a missile attack by rogue states. www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/missile

India test-fires Trishul missile Indigenously developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation, the solid fuel-propelled missile has a triple battlefield role for the army, air force and navy. India on Sunday successfully test-fired the short-range surface-to-air Trishul missile from the Integrated Test Range of Chandipur, 15 km from Orissa's Balasore district. I thought the Trishul SAM program was being shut down because the missile's command and guidance system was found wanting. www.rediff.com /news/2003/jun/22trish.htm

Missile Command Penguin Command - Very pretty Missile Command clone. - The event queue is now flushed before the start of each wave, so that if you hit the buttons after the wave is over, you don't fire all your missiles at the start of the next. - You only need the development libs if you're gunna compile Missile Command yourself. missile.sourceforge.net

Navy Fact File: Fleet Ballistic Missile Submarines Although the missiles have no pre-set targets when the submarine goes on patrol, the SSBNs are capable of rapidly targeting their missiles should the need arise, using secure and constant at-sea communications links. The Ohio class submarine replaced aging fleet ballistic missile submarines built in the 1960s and is far more capable. Beginning with the ninth Trident submarine, USS Tennessee (SSBN 734), all new ships are equipped with the Trident II D-5 missile system as they are built, and the earlier ships are being retrofitted to Trident II. www.chinfo.navy.mil /navpalib/factfile/ships/ship-ssbn.html

The Cuban Missile Crisis Fueled by concerns that the U.S. had more nuclear missiles than the Soviet arsenal, and, more importantly, that some of the American missiles were based a mere 150 miles from its boarders, in Turkey, the Soviet leadership grew increasingly desperate to somehow tip the balance of power in its favor. Robert Kennedy meets again that evening with Ambassador Dobrynin and an agreement is reached: removal of the missiles from Cuba under UN supervision in return for a public pledge by the US not to invade Cuba and a secret US commitment to remove the missiles from Turkey within a reasonable time. After a ticker tape comes in saying that Khrushchev has offered publicly to trade the missiles in Cuba for the US missiles in Turkey, JFK argues that "we are going to be in an insupportable position on this matter if this becomes his proposal. www.hpol.org /jfk/cuban

Atlas-F Sites = Missile Silo The 20th Century Castles But now, thanks to two entrepreneurial cousins, Bruce Francisco and Gregory Gibbons, one of these silos located in beautiful Adirondack State Park near Lake Placid is finding new life as a $2.3 million luxury home with its own private airport. aranac, NY - Back in the late 1950's and early 1960's when the Cold War was hot, the U.S. government built hundreds of Atlas-F missile silos (for 18 Million each in 1961) to prepare the country for an attack that never came. Surely one of the most unique real estate properties you could own, the missile silo home sits on 105 acres of manicured grounds, forest and trails. www.missilebases.com /new

Trishul missile test fired - India News - Webindia123.com Trishul missile test fired - India News - Webindia123.com India's indigenously developed short range surface-to-air missile Trishul was test fired from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur on Wednesday. The missile was launched from a mobile launcher at about 2.15 pm, defence sources said. www.webindia123.com /news/showdetails.asp?id=48024&cat=India

Abandoned Missile Base VR Tour MISSILE BASES LIKE THIS ONE ARE FOUND ALL OVER THE COUNTRY, MOSTLY IN THE MID-WEST, AND OWNERSHIP USUALLY REVERTS BACK TO THE RANCHER/FARMER, WHO WILL VERY LIKELY BE WATCHING FOR TRESPASSERS WITH A LOADED SHOTGUN. The site was opened many years ago by explorers and vandals, and in fact the technology therein was nearly obsolete by the time the bases were completed in 1963, so there's little "secret" about it beyond the location of these sites, which we will not reveal here. This presentation will take you on a full tour of a decommissioned, abandoned underground missile complex. www.triggur.org /silo

14 Days in October: The Cuban Missile Crisis The Soviets had installed nuclear missiles in Cuba, just 90 miles off the coast of the United States. The closest the world has come to nuclear war was the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962. We are looking for your memories of the Cuban Missile Crisis to archive on the site. library.thinkquest.org /11046

US Carries Out Successful Missile Defense Test Over Pacific The test involved a modified Minuteman missile launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base at 10:00 pm (0200 GMT Tuesday), and a prototype interceptor fired 22 minutes later about 7,775 kilometers (4,800 miles) away from Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands. An intercontinental ballistic missile launched from the US state of California was successfully intercepted over the Pacific Ocean as part of a new test of a budding US missile defense system, the Defense Department announced late Monday. As part of the Bush Administration's missile defense plans the director of the newly formed Missile Defense Agency Lieutenant General Ronald Kadish, spoke with reporters in Washington DC Tuesday. www.spacedaily.com /news/bmdo-02r.html

Ed's Nike Missile Web Site The missile (with booster) was launched 0.4 seconds ago, is accelerating at 25 times the force of earth's gravity, has risen 60 feet, and it is now going 210 miles per hour. The Nike surface to air missile system was named after the winged goddess of victory in Greek mythology. (I did the radar and missile engagement simulation in the Battery Control van.) www.ed-thelen.org

Brimstone missile - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Clearance of the missile was delayed by 12 months due to the unavailability of a Tornado trials aircraft, the RAF chose instead to rush the development of the Storm Shadow. The missile is a development of Boeing's AGM-114 Hellfire and is designed to meet the RAF's requirement for a long range anti-armour weapon, allowing strike aircraft to attack tanks and armoured vehicles at stand-off range, replacing the BL755 cluster bomb. The first ground firing of the Brimstone missile occurred in August 1999 followed by the first air-launched firing Tornado GR1 in September 2000. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brimstone_missile   (372 words)

rediff.com: Akash missile test fired for the third time India's indigenously built medium range surface-to-air missile Akash, which is going to be inducted into the army next year, was successfully test fired Tuesday at Balasore for the third time since February 27. The Akash uses an integral Ramjet rocket propulsion system to give a low-volume, low-weight (700 kg launch weight) missile configuration, and has a low reaction time -from detection to missile launch - of 15 seconds. The theatre defence, surface-to-air missile operates in conjunction with the Rajendra surveillance and engagement radar. www.rediff.com /news/2001/mar/07akash.htm   (372 words)

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