Principles of Modern Radar Missile Seekers by
This book gives you an in-depth look into the critical function of interference shielding for onboard radar of anti-aircraft missile systems. Three problematic interferences are presented and discussed in detail: polarization interference; interference to the sidelobe of onboard antenna; and interference from two points in space, including interference reflected from the earth (water) surface. You will learn the basic principles of radiolocation, including monopulse radars, and get insight into the fundamental functional units of anti-aircraft missiles and surface-to-air missile systems. The book presents guidance methods, systems of direction finding, problems on firing over the horizon, and questions of accuracy and resolution - all important for better addressing solutions of interference shielding. This is a unique and valuable resource for engineers and technicians who are involved in the design and development of anti-aircraft guided missile systems, with special emphasis on interference immunity and protection. It can also be used as a textbook in advanced radar technology coursework and seminars.
NATO and the Strategic Defence Initiative : A Transatlantic History of the Star Wars Programme
Missiles : Defense Programs, Threats and Types by
The United States has been developing and deploying ballistic missile defenses (BMD) to defend against enemy missiles continuously since the late 1940s. This book gives a brief history of the BMD program, and addresses the progress the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) made in 2018 in achieving delivery and testing goals and the extent to which MDA made progress in developing and delivering integrated regional BMD system capabilities. It also discusses the challenges MDA and the defense intelligence community face in meeting the agency's threat assessment needs and the extent to which MDS engages the defense intelligence community on missile defense acquisitions. The book also reports on the current status of North Korea's nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs to develop ballistic missile-based conventional prompt strike systems, the conceptual design phase the Navy undertook for the FFG (X) guided missile frigate program, and the Aegis BMD program carried out by the MDA and the Navy.
Narrowing the U.S.-China Gap on Missile Defense : How to Help Forestall a Nuclear Arms Race by
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (US)
The ongoing dispute over the impact of U.S. missile defense on China presents a major and growing challenge to the U.S.-China security relationship. If Beijing’s concerns are left unaddressed, they will likely fuel more intensive Chinese efforts to modernize its nuclear forces and other strategic capabilities. Amid rising great power competition, this dispute and its consequences could severely undermine bilateral strategic stability. Finger pointing has done no good, as the perception gap between the two countries over the motivations behind U.S. missile defense is genuine and deeply rooted. What have not been as thoroughly examined are the sources of the perception gap and practical ways to bridge it. Significant ambiguities on both sides over their respective technical capabilities and policy deliberations are a main cause of this perception gap. This report identifies three main sets of ambiguities and analyzes how and why they have arisen, so as to provide actionable recommendations on both cooperative and unilateral ways the two countries can tackle them.
Missile-Defence Cooperation in the Gulf
International Institute for Strategic Studies (GB)
Iran's short- and medium range ballistic missiles are instrumental to its military doctrine and deterrence strategy. Yet despite having long faced a direct threat from these missiles, the members of the Gulf Cooperation Council remain unable or unwilling to effectively coordinate and integrate their missile-defence capabilities. They have gained a measure of protection through bilateral procurement of technology and expertise from the United States. But a more strategically efficient approach would be to pool resources such as radars and other sensors, and to integrate their systems in ways that require difficult compromises between state sovereignty and security. Written by a team of IISS experts this report contributes to the ongoing policy debate on Middle Eastern collective security. It examines the development of Iran's missile capabilities over several decades, parallel efforts to counter the threat they pose by Gulf Arab states and the broader evolution of security structures in the region.
Russian Ballistic Missile Defense : Rhetoric and Reality by 
Another Brick in the Wall : The Israeli Experience in Missile Defense by 
US Missile Defense Strategy : Engaging the Debate by
Why has the United States continued to develop ballistic missile defenses in an era of irregular warfare and asymmetric terrorist threats ? How does missile defense contribute to US global strategy ? Can the BMD system achieve the goals that lay behind its creation ? The author addresses these questions in his balanced approach to the contentious debate over the strategic values of missile defense. He surveys the grand strategies of the Clinton, Bush and Obama administrations, methodically comparing them with each president's missile defense policies. He also demystifies the fundamentals of the BMD system. Seeking to change the terms of the debate, he cogently challenges much of the conventional wisdom touted by both supporters and detractors of ballistic missile defense.
European Missile Defense and Russia by 
The Future of the U. S. Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Force
Rand Corporation (US)
In the lead-up to the Air Force Ground Based Strategic Deterrent Analysis of Alternatives, RAND was asked to examine and assess possible intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) alternatives against the current Minuteman III system and to provide insights into the potential impact of further force reductions. The researchers developed a framework consisting of five categories - basing, propulsion, boost, reentry, and payload - to characterize alternative classes of ICBM and to assess the survivability and effectiveness of possible alternatives. Using existing cost analyses and cost data from historical ICBM programs, they derived likely cost bounds on alternative classes of ICBM systems. Finally, they developed force reduction scenarios, examined their impacts on several key nuclear specialty career fields to understand the implications of reductions on the current organizational structure, and compared sustainment and requirement profiles within the various reduction scenarios.
Penaid Nonproliferation : Hindering the Spread of Countermeasures Against Ballistic Missile Defenses by 
Ballistic Missile Defence and US National Security Policy : Normalisation and Acceptance after the Cold War by
This book examines the transformation in US thinking about the role of Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) in national security policy since the end of the Cold War. The evolution of the BMD debate after the Cold War has been complex, complicated and punctuated. As this book shows, the debate and subsequent policy choices would often appear to reflect neither the particular requirements of the international system for US security at any given time, nor indeed the current capabilities of BMD technology. This book traces the evolution of policy from the zero-sum debates that surrounded the Strategic Defense Initiative as Ronald Reagan left office, up to the relative political consensus that exists around a limited BMD deployment in 2012. The book shows how and why policy evolved in such a complex manner during this period, and explains the strategic reasoning and political pressures shaping BMD policy under each of the presidents who have held office since 1989. Ultimately, this volume demonstrates how relative advancements in technology, combined with growth in the perceived missile threat, gradually shifted the contours and rhythm of the domestic missile defence debate in the US towards acceptance and normalisation.
NATO Missile Defense and the European Phased Adaptive Approach : The Implications of Burden Sharing and the Underappreciated Role of the U.S. Army by
US Army War College. Strategic Studies Institute (US)
In 2010, NATO decided to expand its ballistic missile defense program, in part because of the American offer to include its European Phased Adaptive Approach (EPAA) as the centerpiece of an expanded effort. For the Allies' part, few have actually contributed tangible ballistic missile defense assets, in terms of missile interceptors, radars or other sensors, or ballistic missile defense-related platforms. This is likely to have significant implications for the U.S. Army, which has an important but largely underappreciated role in NATO missile defense today. In particular, the Army is likely to face increased manpower demands, materiel requirements, and training needs in order to meet the demand signal created by the NATO ballistic missile defense program. Additionally, Army units involved directly in or in support of ballistic missile defense are likely to face a higher OPTEMPO than currently projected. Ultimately, this will exacerbate the perceived imbalance in transatlantic burden-sharing, particularly if the EPAA provides little, if any, benefit to the defense of U.S. territory, given Washington's decision to cancel Phase 4 of that framework.
Du bouclier antimissile aux nouvelles relations americano-russes : 2000-2011 by
Poursuivie depuis le debut de la guerre froide, l'ambition des Etats-Unis de se doter de la technologie permettant de contrer une attaque balistique accidentelle ou intentionnelle a ete relancee par l'administration Bush a partir de 2001. Le nouveau projet, plus ambitieux, se voulait global et consistait meme en la protection des allies des Etats-Unis qui le desireraient, comme l'avait deja propose le president Clinton. Si la question relative au bouclier antimissile americain est nee du nouveau projet de Georges W. Bush, c'est avec l'election de Barack Obama qu'elle prend un tournant decisif. Ayant saisi l'enjeu du probleme, a savoir les nombreuses reticences de certains allies traditionnels et surtout le refus categorique de la Russie de voir la Pologne et la Republique tcheque accueillir des elements de la 'troisieme position americaine', la nouvelle administration decide d'abandonner cette option pour reflechir a un autre projet. Cette pause est notamment marquee par la volonte affichee de Barack Obama de transformer les relations bilaterales avec la Federation de Russie au nom d'interets plus globaux, interets qui s'inscrivent dans la nouvelle politique etrangere des Etats-Unis. Mais cette strategie et ces relations bilaterales ne sont pas sans certaines limites.
Characterizing the North Korean Nuclear Missile Threat by 
Facing the Missile Challenge : U.S. Strategy and the Future of the INF Treaty by 
Eliminating Nuclear Weapons : The Role of Missile Defense by
The goal of a planet free from nuclear weapons is at last being taken seriously by the foreign policy establishments of the leading powers. For the Obama administration, followed by the British government, leading the world to accept the elimination of nuclear weapons as a realistic political objective is a priority. In a world with new nuclear weapon states like India, Pakistan, North Korea, and in the foreseeable future Iran and others, it is only a matter of time before atomic weapons will be used again, whether in an authorised, unauthorized or accidental way. The ultimate fear - unfortunately a realistic one - is nuclear terrorism, that bleakly forbidding combination of ideology and technology. At the same time, missile defense seems to have finally made the move from the drawing table to the concrete silo. Even the Democratic administration of President Obama continues to spend nearly $10 billion per annum on missile defense, including land- and sea-based systems to be deployed in and around Europe. At a certain point in the not too distant future, nuclear elimination and missile defense will either reinforce or weaken each other. Is missile defense a mandatory precondition for arriving at a nuclear weapons-free world, as some claim ? Or will missile defense make it more difficult, if not impossible, to reach 'global zero' ? This book is the first to systematically compare and analyze both options.
Justifying Ballistic Missile Defence : Technology, Security and Culture by
Technology is championed as the solution to modern security problems, but also blamed as their cause. This book assesses the way in which these two views collide in the debate over ballistic missile defence : a complex, costly and controversial system intended to defend the United States from nuclear missile attacks. The author shows how, in the face of strong scientific and strategic critique, advocates of missile defence seek to justify its development by reference to broader culturally embedded perceptions of the promises and perils of technological development. Unpacking the assumptions behind the justification of missile defence initiatives, both past and present, this book illustrates how common-sense understandings of technology are combined and used to legitimate this controversial and costly defence programme. In doing so it engages fundamental debates over understandings of technological development, human agency and the relationship between technology and security.
Iran's Ballistic Missile Capabilities : A Net Assessment
International Institute for Strategic Studies (GB)
In tandem with progress in its nuclear programme, Iran is making robust strides in developing ballistic missiles, with the apparent aim of being able to deliver nuclear warheads well beyond its borders. This dossier aims to contribute to the policy debate about Iran's strategic challenges by establishing a shared understanding of the missile programmes. It offers the most detailed information available in the public domain about Iran's liquid-and-solid fuelled missiles and its indigenous production capabilities. The dossier also analyses the military and strategic effectiveness of Iran's potential arsenal, including both conventional and non-conventional warheads. By comparing Iran's progress with that of missile-development programmes elsewhere, the dossier assesses the types of missiles Iran might try to develop in future, how long it could take, and what observable trends and indicators will allow other nations to monitor Iranian progress and to plan appropriate responses.
La defense antimissiles en debat(s) by 
Missile Defence Systems : Global and Regional Implications by