Ground-based missile defense is especially costly and not nearly as effective as sea- and space-based systems would be.
Sadly, the broad-based missile-defense-shield cause is not helped by the Pentagon's bureaucracy, either.
Of particular concern, however, is the virtual elimination of work on space-based missile defenses in the present MDA budget and out-year plan.
The operation validates the Center's longstanding support for and confidence in sea-based missile defense and its evolving capability to protect the American people.
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But critics say Trident is too expensive, and there have been calls to either scrap the nuclear deterrent or switch to a cheaper land-based missile system.
Putin's remarks in no way alluded to these uses of satellites in space but appeared targeted specifically at moves in the U.S. to deploy a space-based missile-defense system.
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Some progress has also been made on sea-based missile defenses.
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.
As long as the United States foreswears sea-, air- and space-based missile defenses in particular, it will be unable to develop, to say nothing of deploy, effective anti-missile systems.
It's fully equipped with sea-based missile defense systems, has long been the Navy's primary ship for the sea-based missile defense program and has the technology needed for the operation, officials said.
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For example, members of NATO, along with Russia, are worried about suggestions that Bush might pull U.S. peacekeeping troops out of the Balkans, and try to implement a space-based missile defense system.
Sea-based missile defense is vital to our overall ability to defend ourselves, but it is not a substitute for the land-based system which is designed to provide defense against longer range ballistic missiles.
The Clementine II, Kinetic-Kill Anti-Satellite and Military Space Plane programs are the technological seed corn for such crucial capabilities as space-based missile defenses, neutralizing enemy satellites and having prompt, reliable and inexpensive access to and use of space.
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In fact, the New York Times reported on Saturday that Team Obama is poised to look at alternatives - sea-based missile defenses or putting those or other anti-missile systems ashore someplace other than Poland and the Czech Republic.
Second, all of the scientists and engineers who worked on the European land-based missile defense project will now scatter to the winds, some taking early retirement, some getting assigned to other projects and others perhaps going into different industries altogether.
Biden -- and for that matter Secretary Perry -- may be saying that they would support the deployment of a sea-based missile defense off the coast of North Korea provided the system so deployed was compliant with the ABM Treaty.
Interestingly, two of the most vocal of critics of missile defense -- MIT's Professor Theodore Postol and IBM's Richard Garwin -- have been recently sighted recommending that AEGIS ships be adapted for sea-based missile defenses precisely to address this mission.
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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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Best of all, thanks to the enormous investment the U.S. Navy and its counterparts have made in the ships, sensors, communication gear, and other infrastructure needed for sea based missile defenses, the costs of putting such a capability in place are a fraction of those associated with other alternatives.
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To assure the Russians that this initiative would only modify, not imperil, the U.S.-Soviet Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty signed in 1972, however, the Administration intends to reaffirm in a new agreement the earlier accord's bans on sea-, air-, mobile ground- and space-based missile defenses of the territory of the United States.
This should hold us over until we develop a thorough, sophisticated land-based antiballistic missile system.
These could involve ground-based anti-missile systems, airborne lasers and space-based sensors and, in due course, weapons (interceptors and directed energy).
One of these amendments would have foreclosed the option to deploy space-based anti-missile weapons.
All the legal constraints that had prevented use of sea-based systems in missile defense schemes disappeared, and engineers could begin thinking about exploiting the full operational potential of the Aegis combat system.
In June 1992, President Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin signed a "framework agreement" (1) in Washington that provided for the complete elimination of all multiple-warheaded land-based intercontinental ballistic missile (MIRVed ICBM) systems.
The land-based anti-missile rocket is to be launched from Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific in hopes of destroying a modified Minuteman missile fired into space 20 minutes earlier from Vandenberg Air Force Base, 4, 300 miles (6, 880 kms) away in California.
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Mr Cameron's schedule included a visit to a Trident nuclear missile submarine based on the Clyde.
That's when researchers at Rocket Chemical Co. were trying to develop a petroleum-based substance to protect missile skins from moisture.
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.
Very little has changed since the early 1950s, when researchers at Rocket Chemical Co. were trying to develop a petroleum-based substance to protect missile skins from moisture.
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