Defending against theater and intercontinental ballistic missiles, potentially carrying nuclear, biological or chemical weapons, requires 100% effectiveness anything less continues to afford our enemies weapons of mass effect. If the U.S. is to be successful in answering this threat, a re-evaluation of boost phase intercept (BPI) options is in order. This paper highlights the ballistic missile threat and joint defense systems; provides an assessment of those systems; re-evaluates BPI merits; and proposes a kinetic boost phase solution (with concept of operations) to bridge the potential fielding of space-base weapons. Early engagement provides better, faster, cheaper and less destabilizing missile defense capability. Heads, not tails sounds a call to the Missile Defense Agency, Strategic Command and all Services to commit to producing BPI capability (first kinetic, then directed energy), ahead of other systems and upgrades.
Head, Not Tails: How Best to Engage Theater Ballistic Missiles
2006
72 pages
Report
No indication
English
Antimissile Defense Systems , Missile Technology , Theater level operations , Ballistic missile intercept systems , Intercontinental ballistic missiles , Weapons , Guided missiles , Boost phase , Tail assemblies , Sound , Enemy , Directional , Chemical ordnance , Kinetics , Biological warfare , Interception , Threats , Defense systems , Department of defense
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