It is time for members of Congress to be great leaders, and end the Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) program.
Immediately establish that the Navy's 60-odd ships equipped with the Aegis fleet air defense system will, henceforth, be part of the Nation's missile defense infrastructure.
This will require immediately expanding the number of Navy ships with the Aegis fleet air defense system that are equipped to intercept ship-launched ballistic missiles.
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The test involved the third straight intercept by a SM 3 missile launched from a cruiser, the U.S.S. Lake Erie, equipped with the Aegis fleet air defense system.
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It can be achieved most rapidly, most efficiently and most affordably from the sea, by adapting the Navy's AEGIS fleet air defense system to shoot down ballistic missiles.
This kind of LEMP weapon could be theoretically deployed as an air defense system to neutralize conventional (IR guided or radar guided) missiles, but could also be used to neutralize UAVs, which are dependent on electronic systems.
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For the most part, those targets were still parts of Yugoslavia's integrated air defense system and command-and-control headquarters, and headquarters of Serbia special police units, who are responsible for much of the horror taking place in Kosovo.
While the details of his decision remain closely held, it appears that Mr. Bush will direct the Navy to modify ships equipped with the Aegis fleet air defense system so as to enable them to shoot down ballistic missiles.
No American, let alone our allies in the Middle East, can help but rejoice that the Reagan administration succeeded in taking the first, tenuous steps away from perpetual U.S. vulnerability by upgrading the Patriot air defense system to give it modest antiballistic missile capabilities.
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Specifically, this would mean adapting the Navy's AEGIS fleet air defense system as quickly as possible to permit it to intercept long-range missiles, especially in the boost or ascent phase where geography permits (as in the case, for example, of North Korea and perhaps Iraq or Iran).
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As a result, the latter are unwittingly helping to underwrite the unsavory activities of such enterprises - including: China's proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, arms build-up, environmental depradation, technology theft (including the Navy's Aegis fleet air defense system and nuclear warhead designs), espionage and slave-labor manufacturing operations, etc.
Last week, the Pentagon demonstrated for the third time in a row the inherent feasibility of recommendations insistently advanced over the past seven years by organizations like the Center for Security Policy, High Frontier and the Heritage Foundation: The U.S. Navy's Aegis fleet air defense system can be rapidly and effectively adapted to perform ant-ballistic missile missions from the sea.
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She might have stayed there longer, but in a third career twist, defense secretary Casper Weinberger a fellow not noted for canceling weapons programs killed the Sergeant York air-defense system on which she was working.
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U.S. arms sales to Taiwan is a sore spot from Beijing's perspective: In his last decision on the issue, Bush left open the possibility that Washington could sell Taipei warships equipped with the Aegis advanced air-defense system if China continues its military buildup across the Taiwan Straits.
"This is an integrated air and missile defense system, much like the one Iraq had that surrounded Baghdad -- built on older Soviet technology, but still good capability, " Adm.
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.
That is the site in Moorestown, New Jersey where the Navy tests the radars for its Aegis combat system, the most capable air- and missile-defense system in the world.
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" The wire service quotes the Pentagon analysis as saying this "concept appears to include a range of weapon systems and technologies related to information warfare, ballistic and anti-ship cruise missiles, advanced fighters and submarines, counterspace system and air defense.
While some of these weapon and sensor systems like the Electromagnetic Railgun or the Free Electron Laser are at least a decade away, the Laser Weapon System and Air and Missile Defense Radar systems are almost ready for prime time deployment today.
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Color Red is no substitute for an Iron Dome defense system, but with as little as 15 seconds between an air defense warning and a rocket striking its target, Color Red offers a little bit of extra time for users to find shelter.
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