And they have settled on Poland for the interceptors and the Czech Republic for the radar.

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The program, which employs hit-to-kill technology in its interceptors, has performed well in tests.

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Their information would be linked up by computer systems that could guide the interceptors.

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Ideally, an underlay of ground-based interceptors would also be deployed in a layered SDI system.

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We already have ground-based interceptors at Fort Greeley, Alaska and at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

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The new system will have "hundreds" of missile interceptors instead, the Pentagon's point man on it said.

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The whole purpose of tests - whether of missiles or missile interceptors - is to improve them.

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Whether the U.S. system of ground-based interceptors are the right response quickly became a matter of debate Friday.

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The U.S. interceptors have failed in some recent tests, with the last fully successful test occurring in 2008.

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Mr. Hagel said the U.S. wouldn't purchase the new weapons until there are successful tests of the interceptors.

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In 1976, the U.S. deployed 100 Spartan and Sprint interceptors in an ABM defense at Grand Forks, N.

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Hagel acknowledged a problem with the guidance system of missile interceptors and said further testing would occur this year.

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W. Bush administration plans to deploy 14 more ground-based interceptors (GBIs) in Alaska, bringing the 2009 total to 54.

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The United States is, right this second, continuing with a play to deploy land-based interceptors in Romania by 2015.

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Mr. Hagel said the U.S. wouldn't purchase the new weapons until military officials conduct successful tests of the interceptors.

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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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After all, the current plan is modest -- to deploy just 20 interceptors by 2005 and 100 by 2007.

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These could involve ground-based anti-missile systems, airborne lasers and space-based sensors and, in due course, weapons (interceptors and directed energy).

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Officials in Moscow had hinted that they would not consider further nuclear arms cuts if the SM-3 interceptors were deployed.

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The U.S. could have already had those 14 more interceptors in place, along with another 10 in Europe next year.

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The US announced plans to deploy 14 additional missile interceptors in Alaska, and an early-warning radar in Japan, on Friday.

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Each Party shall not convert and shall not use ICBM launchers and SLBM launchers for placement of missile defense interceptors therein.

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The SM-3 interceptors now planned have a shorter range and fly less quickly than the rockets proposed by the Bush administration.

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They maintained their defense of Moscow and improved it a decade ago, replacing the Galoshes with new long-range interceptors known as Gorgons.

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Each Party further shall not convert and shall not use launchers of missile defense interceptors for placement of ICBMs and SLBMs therein.

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When asked about the "poor performance" of interceptors during recent trials, Mr Hagel said further tests would be carried out this year.

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The US and other Nato allies have deployed Patriot missile interceptors to repel any possible attack by missiles or aircraft from Syria.

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Interceptors are vehicles that are launched to intercept intercontinental missiles in flight.

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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.

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The Bush administration has long wanted to put missile interceptors in Poland.

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