Russia also reportedly has sold six S-300 air defense systems to Syria under a 2010 contract.
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld ordered air defense systems around Washington armed with anti-aircraft missiles Tuesday.
When President Obama campaigned last year, he said that he supported missile defense systems that work.
South Korea also said it would speed up plans to develop its own missile-defense systems.
The United States missile defense systems are not intended to affect the strategic balance with Russia.
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McCain, a Vietnam War veteran, said that any such effort would require taking out Syria's air-defense systems.
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld ordered Tuesday the air defense systems deployed around Washington armed with surface-to-air missiles.
Millennium Summit, Putin said the time had come for the world to halt discussion of space-based defense systems.
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Navy Area is the number one priority of the Navy and Marine Corps among the different Theater Missile Defense systems.
He became president of SY Technology, now the SY Coleman division of L-3 Communications, a leading contractor for missile-defense systems.
They reported that all sides have switched off their radars and air defense systems in accordance with the Dayton peace agreement.
Defense planners had failed to consider the implications of the proliferation of advanced surface-to-air defense systems and modern (late 20th-century) fighter aircraft.
All of them are contracts for what are solely air defense systems.
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Second, you have to think that collaboration with the Russians on missile defense systems will not result in the compromise of U.S. anti-missile technologies.
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The Kremlin's other demands include access to the core of America's state-of-the-art missile defense systems - hit-to-kill technology that has a host of applications beyond anti-missile missions.
Separately, Vivek Lall, who heads the Indian operations at Boeing's Integrated Defense Systems unit, said the company will bid to sell six medium-range maritime patrol aircraft to India.
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That's an argument in favor of developing space-based defense systems.
It also has plans to add an early-warning radar system in western Japan, while South Korea has pledged to speed up the introduction of its own missile defense systems.
The United States missile defense systems would be employed to defend the United States against limited missile launches, and to defend its deployed forces, allies and partners against regional threats.
They are similar to the Navy SEALs in that they are heavily trained in airborne and combat diving techniques in order to allow them to bypass traditional land defense systems.
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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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The opponents of anti-missile systems are returning to their favored, Luddite argument, namely that missile defense systems are not performing as advertized, cannot work and can, in any event, be easily counter-measured.
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For the fifth time out of six attempts, Navy ships successfully tracked, intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile in-fight, using their existing AEGIS fleet air defense systems and a new Standard Missile, dubbed the SM-3.
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But now, Levinson and Desmond-Hellmann are heading out of their comfort zone into a new field: immunology, which focuses on how the body's own defense systems go awry to cause disorders like rheumatoid arthritis, asthma and multiple sclerosis.
By funding a modernized Patriot, our military will own a system that is interoperable with many other missile defense systems in our own arsenal and in the arsenals of our allies, allowing the United States to maximize its threat response capability.
And as part of an international coalition, under a U.N. mandate that is almost unprecedented, we went in and took out air defense systems so that an international coalition could provide a no-fly zone, could protect -- provide humanitarian protection to the people on the ground.
While the Army has managed with somewhat better results terminal and point defense programs like Safeguard and Patriot, the technology and missions of today's larger, vastly more sophisticated missile defense systems (such as ERINT, Brilliant Eyes and Brilliant Pebbles) go well beyond what the Army traditionally has had expertise in.
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