This should hold us over until we develop a thorough, sophisticated land-based antiballistic missile system.
Immediately after landing, he will visit a battery of the anti-missile system, Iron Dome.
The act requires the president to proceed with an anti-missile system when one is technologically feasible.
Anyway, the critics add, the anti-missile system could probably be fooled or overwhelmed by the attacking country.
The Patriot is an advanced surface-to-air missile system intended to defend against aircraft, cruise and ballistic missiles.
Bush insists he would build a bigger anti-missile system than the one under development by the Clinton-Gore Administration.
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The Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) in Aldermaston, Berkshire, provides the warheads for Trident, the UK's submarine-launched missile system.
The US anti-missile system to be installed in Poland and the Czech Republic remains a problem for Russia.
Mr Putin knows that America's proposed anti-missile system would be too small to block Russia's still powerful missile armoury.
Dubbed Air Sarko One, the new jet features a double bedroom, an air-conditioned smoking room and an anti-missile system.
The US manufacturers are working on the next generation of the missile system.
In March this year, he joined 94 other Labour rebels to vote against renewing the ageing Trident nuclear missile system.
Ten divisions equipped with the new S-500 anti-missile system are set to become the backbone of the country's missile defences.
He also understands, as Secretary Rumsfeld noted recently, that an anti-missile system need not be perfect to have strategic value.
The Trident missile system, Britain's nuclear deterrent, is carried by submarines based at the Faslane naval base on the Clyde, near Helensburgh.
The UAE package includes an anti-ballistic missile system called THAAD which is designed to destroy missiles both within and beyond the earth's atmosphere.
Of course, these limitations did not keep the Soviet Union and, after its demise, Russia from putting into place a territorial anti-missile system.
For instance, in response to Syria's medium-range missiles, Israel is developing the David's Sling anti-missile system that should be ready in eight years.
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An east London estate, where 700 people live, has received leaflets saying a "Higher Velocity Missile system" could be placed on a water tower.
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The U.S. simply could not acquire, let alone field, an effective anti-missile system for its people and territory within the limits of the ABM Treaty.
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.
She will be in Prague on Tuesday to sign a treaty with the Czech government to allow the radar for the missile system to be placed there.
As a result, the challenge for Mr. Bush will be not merely to advocate a technically viable and affordable anti-missile system worthy of broad support at home and abroad.
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For the JAGM contract, Lockheed provides a 27-month technology development program that includes design, test and demonstration of joint air-to-ground missile system that significantly enhances warfighters operational flexibility and combat effectiveness.
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The Russians have been more co-operative over recent months - for example, cancelling the sale to Iran of an anti-missile system that fell foul of UN sanctions which the Russians themselves supported.
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Israel, which is widely believed to have nuclear capability, did not retaliate under pressure from the United States, which agreed to supply the Patriot missile system to the Jewish state for its defense.
One Pentagon official said that since early January, a team including 200 industry experts and scientists had worked furiously to modify the Aegis air-defense missile system so it could shoot down the satellite.
If that too fails, the Pentagon is unlikely to be able to recommend to Mr Clinton that an anti-missile system is now feasible, even though more than a dozen further tests are planned.
He said the package would waste money on an unnecessary missile system and objected to provisions that would expel service members found to have the AIDS virus and ban abortions in U.S. military hospitals overseas.
Especially worrisome to supporters of missile defense is the prospect that such a review and negotiations may be conducted by people who have, heretofore at least, evinced little enthusiasm for actually deploying a U.S. anti-missile system.
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