The latter, after all, enjoys two distinct advantages over the former: (1) Orbiting sensors and interceptors are cheaper to build and maintain -- on the order of a 3-to-1 cost advantage -- and (2) they offer continuous, global defense coverage.
Mr Rasmussen wants NATO to build a missile-defence umbrella to link up America's network (scaled back from plans to have a large radar in the Czech Republic and interceptors in Poland) with smaller systems being developed by NATO and European countries like France.
In 1976, the U.S. deployed 100 Spartan and Sprint interceptors in an ABM defense at Grand Forks, N.
And they have settled on Poland for the interceptors and the Czech Republic for the radar.
These could involve ground-based anti-missile systems, airborne lasers and space-based sensors and, in due course, weapons (interceptors and directed energy).
Unlike the original however, this update features primary and secondary missions such as escorting friendly vehicles, eliminating stolen interceptors and reaching goals such as collecting all the satcom icons on each level.
The United States has also concluded agreements with the governments of Poland and the Czech Republic that will allow the fielding of ten land-based interceptors and an X-band radar, respectively, in the two nations.
Hagel acknowledged a problem with the guidance system of missile interceptors and said further testing would occur this year.
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He acknowledged a problem with the guidance system of missile interceptors and said further testing would occur this year.
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Then sea-based interceptors and other technologies can be added as soon as they are ready, to create a truly global missile defense.
They have expressed a willingness to position respectively interceptors and radars to protect Europe and the West against the emerging threat of missile attack from Iran and potentially other Mideast nations.
The American people will be told that the compromise achieves Russian agreement to a national missile defense deployment of between 20 and 100 missile interceptors at a site to be built in Alaska.
The Bush-era proposal called for the United States to set up a radar site in the Czech Republic and 10 missile interceptors in Poland to counter the threat of Iran launching long-range missiles at America's allies in Europe.
I've talked to Russian analysts who say if you think about this five, ten, fifteen years into the future, they fear that the United States will perfect this technology - it's unperfected so far - and put more missile interceptors either in eastern Europe, Poland or on ships not far from Russia, and that ultimately - the Russians say - they fear that this could challenge their nuclear deterrent.
Each Party further shall not convert and shall not use launchers of missile defense interceptors for placement of ICBMs and SLBMs therein.
An important distinction was made in this regard between the task of detecting an aircraft like the B-2 and the job of tracking and vectoring missiles or interceptors to destroy it.
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After all, the current plan is modest -- to deploy just 20 interceptors by 2005 and 100 by 2007.
The Eastern Europe shield plan also called for the interceptors in Poland and Romania to be complemented by deployed naval ships in the Mediterranean.
Mr Clinton's answer is a limited defence to deal with limited dangers, the first stage of which would require the deployment of 100 interceptors based in Alaska, with an option to increase the number of interceptors to 250 and deploy some of them at a second site.
The US announced plans to deploy 14 additional missile interceptors in Alaska, and an early-warning radar in Japan, on Friday.
Similarly, Putin has proposed that instead of 10 anti-missile interceptors slated for deployment in Poland, the United States put interceptors in Turkey, Iraq and at sea on warships equipped with the Aegis defensive system.
We already have ground-based interceptors at Fort Greeley, Alaska and at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
Each Party shall not convert and shall not use ICBM launchers and SLBM launchers for placement of missile defense interceptors therein.
The US and other Nato allies have deployed Patriot missile interceptors to repel any possible attack by missiles or aircraft from Syria.
They were intended to be put into place as part of an orderly evolution and upgrading of the initial deployments of GMD interceptors.
The system the Administration is looking at would link a network of ground-based radars and space-based sensors with 100 missile interceptors located at a single site.
The SM-3 interceptors now planned have a shorter range and fly less quickly than the rockets proposed by the Bush administration.
Cartwright did not say how much the new plan would cost compared with the old one, but pointed out that Patriot and SM-3 missiles were significantly cheaper than the interceptors the Bush proposal relied on.
By 2015, more capable interceptors would be deployed at unspecified sites on land and by 2018 these would be replaced by even more capable ones that would provide coverage for all of Europe.
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