On Saturday, RAF jets and a Royal Navy submarine launched missile attacks on targets.
Two Aegis ships patrolling in the Sea of Japan could theoretically defend the nation from missile attacks.
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It would give the U.S. a wide range of options in the face of various missile attacks.
Alarmed by last year's near-miss in Kenya, American inspectors have been visiting airports around the world to assess planes' vulnerability to missile attacks.
At Turkey's request, the NATO military alliance deployed several Patriot missile batteries to protect Turkish border cities from the threat of Syrian missile attacks.
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The United States says a missile-defense system is aimed at preventing missile attacks from rogue states such as Iran, not at blunting Russia's nuclear deterrent.
International threats from terrorists and rogue nations are less predictable than ever -- our military must be prepared to meet those threats, including threats of missile attacks.
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Such officials contend that Israel, of all nations, should understand this reality in light of its having suffered the terror of no fewer than forty Scud missile attacks.
The radar is designed to detect ballistic-missile attacks on the U.S., and is only one of hundreds of military systems the company makes in Massachusetts, Arizona and elsewhere.
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In Tokyo, a city of 12 million, the Disaster Prevention Center operates a command room 24 hours a day and holds drills for everything from smallpox to missile attacks.
That legislation directed that there be "robust funding" for space-based interceptors as part of a program designed to provide, in due course, effective global defenses against limited missile attacks.
These ships, crewed by more than 350, play a key role in a modern carrier group, providing missile attacks against targets on land, sea or even in the air.
U.S. officials say the installations here and in Poland could help protect the U.S. and all except parts of southeastern Europe from incoming missile attacks from places such as Iran.
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On Wednesday, Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned the U.S. ambassador, Anne Patterson, to lodge a complaint about missile attacks it believes have been conducted on Pakistani soil by unmanned U.S. drones.
The Bush administration has asked the Czech government to host a radar system and Poland to accept a bank of interceptor rockets designed to stop missile attacks on U.S. or European targets.
Yemen's government launched airstrikes and other raids against al Qaeda operatives on its territory over the past two weeks, and Monday's statement by al Qaeda accused the United States of assisting with cruise missile attacks launched from offshore.
The latter is exceedingly unlikely to result in the widespread deployment of even its top priority (namely, effective protection against short-range missile attacks) let alone its secondary priority (a modest defense of the continental United States against limited attacks).
One reason is that the Obama administration is rethinking a planned missile-defence system, which would have placed ten interceptor rockets in Poland and a radar station in the Czech Republic, in order to guard against Iranian missile attacks on America and much of Europe.
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Deployed ashore in Alaska and California and aboard a growing number of naval vessels, these systems are affording some protection against certain ballistic missile-delivered attacks on the United States.
This capacity is also increased because the new, smaller missiles have radars that can distinguish between different parts of a target missile, ensuring that if the target has broken up, the Patriot attacks the warhead rather than the debris.
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On March 26, the U.S. and South Korea signed a military contingency plan to respond to possible attacks from North Korea and the U.S. has said it would install additional missile inceptors on the West Coast in response to the threat from North Korea.
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