On Friday days after U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met Russian officials in Moscow and raised concerns over Russian arms shipments to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad the Kremlin said it would go ahead with deliveries of ground-to-air missile systems for the Assad government.
It has resorted increasingly to airstrikes, artillery barrages and surface-to-surface missile attacks to reach rebel-held areas where loyalist ground troops no longer operate.
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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Newly-appointed Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has announced plans to deploy 14 more ground-based long-range missile interceptors in Fort Greely, Alaska by 2017.
Cue the dispatch of three Japanese destroyers equipped with missile interceptors to the East China Sea near Okinawa, and the positioning of ground-to-air PAC-3 missile-busters on land nearby.
The contracts received in the past month range from providing air-to-ground missiles and missile defense systems to light tactical vehicles that can transport troops safely through combat zones.
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He activated ground-to-air missile systems to deter inspection flights.
Targets selected by the United States since the air operation began Sunday have included air defense facilities, ground-to-air missile sites, and command and control facilities of Afghanistan's ruling Taliban and the al Qaeda terror network.
The U.S. plans to boost its ground-based missile interceptors in Alaska and California by nearly 50%, adding 14 additional systems at Fort Greely, Alaska, to the 30 already in place on the West Coast, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced Friday.
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Kadish declared that such a layered system, comprised over time of a range of systems to address an evolving threat, would likely utilize sea- and space-based missile defense "layers" to complement and add robustness to the ground-based capability he is preparing for deployment in Alaska.
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Republican Senators John Warner (VA), William Cohen (ME), and Richard Lugar (IN) broke ranks with President Bush last week in a letter that criticized him for seeking rapid development of space-based defenses, urged him to pursue a far less competent ground-based alternative and called for continued adherence to the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty.
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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In 2009, the Obama Administration killed plans to build a European version of the ground-based missile defense system already deployed in California and Alaska because of political controversy including threats against host nations from Russia.
To be sure, a step in that direction will be taken on Friday, when -- not coincidentally -- ground-breaking is scheduled to begin in Alaska on the construction of five silos intended to house anti-missile interceptors.
It proposes to purchase Moscow's assent to a ground-based U.S. "national missile defense" that is so limited it will not cover all of the country or protect against more than a handful of incoming ballistic missiles.
Obering went on to say that the U.S. would be investing in a "good experimental foundation" that would add to the country's existing sea and ground-based missile defenses.
The U.S. military has become heavily dependent on orbital systems and their supporting ground networks to connect far-flung forces, collect vital intelligence, detect missile launches, provide precise navigation information, and monitor weather conditions.
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Such systems include all phases of the Phased Adaptive Approach to missile defenses in Europe, the modernization of the Ground-based Midcourse Defense system, and the continued development of the two-stage Ground-Based Interceptor as a technological and strategic hedge.
That means expanding our homeland missile defense system Ground-based Midcourse Defense to an East Coast site, something that Congress has told the Pentagon to study.
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If the intercepting missile is ground-launched, it must have extremely high acceleration (15 to 30g over a one-minute period) so as to arrive at the target before burnout.
This move follows other recent plans to reinstate another Bush administration program that will increase our ground-based interceptor (GBI) force in Alaska and to deploy two destroyers equipped with Aegis missile defense systems which had previously been scuttled.
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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To be sure, a step in that direction will be taken on Friday, when not coincidentally ground-breaking is scheduled to begin in Alaska on the construction of five silos intended to house anti-missile interceptors.
What they are trying to build in the missile defense agency and it's in the process of creating is layers of ballistic missile defense shield, which combines ground-base interceptors, which the Bush administration would like to have placed in Poland.
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