These are widely recognized as far less conducive to a first-strike than are short-time-of-flight ballistic missiles.
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They're reconfigured to shoot down ballistic missiles in flight.
Not to be outdone, Iran has, according to testimony before Senator Jon Kyl's Terrorism Subcommittee in March, performed mid-air detonations over the Caspian Sea using ship-launched ballistic missiles - a flight profile consistent with an EMP attack.
In contrast to space-based weapons like Brilliant Pebbles which, thanks to their ability to attack ballistic missiles early in flight trajectory and, thereby, to destroy multiple warheads with a single interceptor, have the potential to be more cost-effective than offensive forces stand-alone, ground-based defenses can only attack incoming warheads after they have been dispersed from the launching missile and in their final stage of flight.
Such defenses have the potential to intercept ballistic missiles early in their flight, i.e.
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It was to be a cheap, effective way to destroy ballistic missiles in all phases of flight.
Ballistic missiles are guided during powered flight and then release their payloads, which are then subject only to gravity and atmospheric drag.
The THAAD contract seeks a missile defense system against short and medium range ballistic missiles in the terminal phase of flight.
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Before joining Linear, he taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he used a surplus flight computer from an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile to research the control of fermentation for use in fields such as pharmaceutical production.
The test, in which an Aegis ballistic missile cruiser shot down a target fired from Hawaii, was the first exo-atmospheric kinetic intercept of a ballistic missile in the ascent phase of flight, and the third intercept from an Aegis warship.
Earlier this year, the North announced it had successfully orbited a satellite, but the claim was dismissed by the US, Japan and South Korea who called the April flight a cover for a test of ballistic missile technology.
The United States might still not have intercontinental ballistic missiles and reliable space launchers today if it had responded to the succession of early flight test failures in those programs by terminating, instead of redoubling, the effort.
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