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due to concerns about its practicality with present technology (while successful the system was still extremely short ranged, likely needing to fly in heavily defended space to make an interception) the YAL-1 served to demonstrate the potential of such a system. The capabilities of being deployed rapidly to any part of the world and of intercepting a large number of missiles would make a future system extremely attractive.
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which were gathered from existing US satellite and ground-based sensors. MDA then fed this data into its existing systems models, and concluded that the adversary hypersonic weapon's glide phase offered the best chance for MDA to intercept it. MDA next proffered a request for information (RFI) from
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January 2010, and the following month, successfully destroyed two test missiles. While the program has been cancelled
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for developing and testing. It will have to be launched from a location not too far from the launch site of the target missile (and is therefore less suitable against large countries), it has to be fired very soon after launch of the target, and it has to be very fast itself (6 km/s). In 2009,
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currently has short- and medium- range missiles with guidance systems. Iran's launch of a medium range, solid fuel ballistic missile demonstrates its ability to hit targets in Israel and southern Europe. Iran also successfully launched the Safir Space Launch
Vehicle on Feb 2, 2009. It was then
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the defense community for building interceptors (denoted the GPI —glide phase interceptor) against the glide phase of that hypersonic weapon. GPIs would be guided by
Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensors (HBTSS). These GPI interceptors could first be offered to the Navy for
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in 2016. On 1 January 2017, North Korea announced its final preparation for a test of an ICBM, for the first time. On 6 March 2017, North Korea launched four missiles from
Tongchang-ri, a known long-range missile site at 7:36 a.m. local time, one of which landed in the
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Deployed Forces in Europe from Limited Iranian Long-Range Threats and Expand Protection of U.S. Homeland". It included the
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Missile Defense Systems (BMDS) must be capable of operating in different regions of the world to ensure the success of the MDA mission. The International Strategy was approved by the MDA Director in 2007. The general strategy for international efforts is:
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Russian and North Korean technology. Iran also recently developed a
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Taepodong-2 launches in 2009 and 2012, and a failed launch of the
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290:"The Missile Defense Agency's (MDA) mission is to develop and deploy a layered Missile Defense System to defend the United States, its deployed forces, allies, and friends from missile attacks in all phases of flight."
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most desirable interception phase because it destroys the missile early in flight at its most vulnerable point and the debris will typically fall on the launching nations' territory.
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Dolan, John L.; Gallagher, Richard K.; Mann, David L. (23 April 2019).
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2148:"U.S. says Iran rocket test breaches U.N. resolution"
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2585:"Hypersonic Weapons – A Threat to National Security"
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2938:Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
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2671:Hitchens, Theresa (12 Aug 2021).
2603:Marlowe, Melanie (8 April 2020).
2593:Osborn, Kris (16 December 2019).
2403:Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
2199:"North Korea's missile programme"
2078:. 26 January 2010. Archived from
1130:Director, Missile Defense Agency
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200:Lt. General James Alan Abrahamson
4051:Kinetic Energy Interceptor (KEI)
3657:National Military Command Center
3487:Under Secretary of the Air Force
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2996:Defense Human Resources Activity
2691:Hitchens, Theresa (6 Jun 2024).
2129:. Congressional Research Service
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3386:Commandant of the Marine Corps
3071:National Reconnaissance Office
2869:Defense Acquisition University
2613:Brennan, David (27 Jan 2021).
2021:. Missile Defense Agency. 2009
2016:"Testing: Building Confidence"
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2961:Defense Contract Audit Agency
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1850:"Ionson Counters SDI Dispute"
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1879:"Ionson Defends SDI Program"
696:, and later to the Army for
685:adversary hypersonic systems
383:hypersonic ballistic missile
192:Strategic Defense Initiative
190:. It had its origins in the
64:Strategic Defense Initiative
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3647:Director of the Joint Staff
3469:Department of the Air Force
3363:General Counsel of the Navy
3338:Under Secretary of the Navy
3255:General Counsel of the Army
3225:Under Secretary of the Army
3162:White House Military Office
3046:Defense Intelligence Agency
2978:for Personnel and Readiness
2811:Deputy Secretary of Defense
2780:Deputy Secretary of Defense
2656:Judson, Jen (20 Nov 2021).
2568:Judson, Jen (13 Aug 2021).
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3275:Sergeant Major of the Army
3265:Chief of Staff of the Army
3036:Under Secretary of Defense
2976:Under Secretary of Defense
2887:Under Secretary of Defense
2839:Under Secretary of Defense
1454:4 years, 61 days
1402:1 year, 339 days
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897:1 year, 149 days
876:Monahan, George Lennox Jr.
738:Research and development:
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3752:Transportation Command
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3368:Judge Advocate General
3320:Department of the Navy
3290:Judge Advocate General
3207:Department of the Army
3099:Defense Media Activity
2915:Missile Defense Agency
2201:. BBC News. 2009-05-27
2107:. BBC News. 2009-09-28
1836:The Scientist Magazine
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822:Abrahamson, James Alan
708:Terminal phase defense
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2771:Secretary of Defense
2044:www.defenseworld.net
1485:Williams, Douglas L.
1261:O'Reilly, Patrick J.
1208:Henry A. Obering III
597:Ascent phase defense
395:currently deploys a
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1810:1988PhT....41f..53G
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1267:Patrick J. O'Reilly
830:James A. Abrahamson
700:to intercept using
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2249:2018-11-06 at the
2173:Motamedi, Maziar.
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