ESSENCE

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• ESSENCE
• CHALLENGES
• FUTURE

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BALLISTIC MISSILE CAPABILITY 1972
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BALLISTIC MISSILE CAPABILITY - 2004
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Missile Defense priorities

• To defend the United States, deployed forces,
  allies, and friends
• To employ a BMD layers of defenses to intercept
  ballistic missiles in all phases of their flight
• To enable early fielding for elements of the BMD
• To develop and test technologies and, if
  necessary, use prototype and test assets to
  provide early capability

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Phases of missiles flight

• Boost phase
• Midcourse phase
• Terminal Phase

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Airborne Laser
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Phases of missiles flight

• Boost phase
• Midcourse phase
• Terminal Phase

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Ground Based Defense
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Emplacing missiles, Calif. and Alaska
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Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense
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Phases of missiles flight

• Boost phase
• Midcourse phase
• Terminal Phase

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The primary elements in the Terminal Defense
Segment

• Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD)
• PATRIOT Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3)
• Arrow, a joint effort between the U.S. and Israel
• Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS), a
  co-developmental program with Germany and Italy.

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Terminal High Altitude Area Defense
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PATRIOT Advanced Capability-3
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Arrow
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What is planned

• Boost
• Airborne Laser air testing of the high-energy
  laser and a successful track and engagement of a
  target by the laser
• Midcourse
• Ground-based Midcourse Defense 18 total
  Ground-based Interceptors, with 2 at Vandenberg
  Air Force Base, Calif. and 16 at Ft. Greely,
  Alaska.
• Aegis 10 sea-based Surveillance and Track
  Destroyers, 2 Engagement/Surveillance and Track
  Cruisers, 8 Standard Missile-3 sea-based
  interceptors
• Terminal
• THAAD radar and missile flight tests against
  short and medium range targets
• 281 Patriot Advanced Capablility-3 missiles
  (operated by the U.S. Army)

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Challenges in BMD

• Boost phase is very short and requires quick
  reaction and a means of destroying the missile
• Midcourse phase is generally the longest phase,
  but a successful midcourse intercept is
  complicated since the Reentry Vehicle will be
  surrounded by booster debris and potential
  countermeasures
• Terminal intercept requires an advanced
  interceptor capable of countering any maneuvers
  the RV may make

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Russias capabilities
VOEVODA (SS-20) SATAN
TOPOL-M (SS-18)
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Russias capabilities
Anti-aircraft missile system Favorit
Can hit 36 objectives with 72 missiles
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Russias capabilities
Radiolocating helicopter Ka-31
Can observe 250 000 sq. km within an hour
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What will BMD lead to

• STABILITY ?
• SECOND COLD WAR ?
• ..?