The self-guided Russian R-77 medium-range air-to-air missile is almost as good as the U.S. AIM-120 AMRAAM.
In 1989, a U.S. fighter jet destroyed a U.S. satellite by firing a modified air-to-air missile into space from an altitude of 80, 000 feet.
When B-1Bs went into action in Kosovo, air force commanders could see Serbian SA-6 surface-to-air missile radars track the planes.
Two AC-130s have been recently lost - one was shot down by a surface-to-air missile, another crashed in Somalia when, it is thought, a round accidentally exploded.
For example, an attempt to bring down Zia's jet with a surface-to-air missile in 1982 is bungled because the would-be assassin has never used the weapon before.
For the JAGM contract, Lockheed provides a 27-month technology development program that includes design, test and demonstration of joint air-to-ground missile system that significantly enhances warfighters operational flexibility and combat effectiveness.
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Powered by a CO2 cartridge that can pretty much reach anywhere in the arena depending on how much pressure you allow to build up between launches (members of the squad told me they're not allowed to aim for the lights), it's basically a surface-to-air missile.
The Patriot is an advanced surface-to-air missile system intended to defend against aircraft, cruise and ballistic missiles.
Surface-to-air missile sites and fighter aircraft, for example, reveal their location as soon as they switch on their radar transmitters to look for targets.
Gortney said a surface-to-air missile threat would have to be eliminate before pilotless aircraft such as the Global Hawk drone could fly missions to see how successful the strikes have been.
One Pentagon official said that since early January, a team including 200 industry experts and scientists had worked furiously to modify the Aegis air-defense missile system so it could shoot down the satellite.
Given the persistent problems that may compromise the future ability of the B-1 to penetrate those defenses and the uncertain political fate of the B-2 bomber, retaining the right to deploy a sizeable and technologically competitive U.S. air-launched cruise missile force is imperative.
As long as the United States foreswears sea-, air- and space-based missile defenses in particular, it will be unable to develop, to say nothing of deploy, effective anti-missile systems.
The Obama Administration is not going to build a Death Star and I do not have a problem with that but the Obama Administration is also refusing to fund a second development air-frame for the Boeing anti-ballistic missile laser battle station and that I regard as a serious policy error.
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But since then it has appreciably evolved far beyond its original air defense capabilities to now include a proven anti-missile capability.
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There are, moreover, other ways to provide such a defense -- notably, from the sea using modified AEGIS fleet air defense ships -- that could enable a national missile defense to be fielded for a fraction of the cost of the ground-based system.
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It stands to reason that, if the political will, streamlined management and necessary resources are brought to bear, the Navy's existing Aegis fleet air defense infrastructure would be able to provide at least some anti-missile protection for the American people -- as well as for their forces and allies overseas -- well before 2005.
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