Alternatives For Boost Phase Missile Defense A Cbo Study

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Download or read book Alternatives for Boost-Phase Missile Defense (A CBO Study) written by Congressional Budget Office and published by . This book was released on 2013-06-09 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A prominent part of the Bush Administration's strategy for national defense is developing and fielding defenses against ballistic missiles. To that end, the Department of Defense's Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is pursuing a layered defense composed of various systems capable of intercepting ballistic missiles at different points in their flight. For the past several years, work has primarily focused on intercepting long-range missiles during their midcourse phase (after their booster rockets have burned out but before their warheads have reentered the atmosphere). MDA plans to field initial elements of a midcourse system this year. Recently, the agency also began an effort to develop interceptors capable of hitting intercontinental ballistic missiles during their boost phase (the first few minutes after launch, before their booster rockets burn out).

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Download or read book A CBO Study: Alternatives for Boost-Phase Missile Defense written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Congressional Budget Office (CBO) study - prepared at the request of the Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities of the Senate Armed Services Committee - looks at technical, operational, and cost issues related to using a boost-phase intercept (BPI) system to defend the United States against intercontinental ballistic missiles. The study compares the strengths, weaknesses, and costs of five alternative designs for a BPI system - three surface-based and two space-based - that span a range of performance characteristics. In keeping with CBO's mandate to provide objective, impartial analysis, this study makes no recommendations.

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Download or read book Alternatives for Boost-Phase Missile Defense, A CBO Study, July 2004, * written by United States. Congressional Budget Office and published by . This book was released on 2004* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 86 pages
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Download or read book Alternatives for Boost-phase Missile Defense written by and published by U.S. Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2004 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines technical, operational, and cost issues related to using a boost-phase intercept (BPI) system to defend the United States against intercontinental ballistic missiles.

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Publisher : Congressional Budget Office
ISBN 13 : 9780160827389
Total Pages : 84 pages
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Download or read book Options for Deploying Missile Defenses in Europe written by and published by Congressional Budget Office. This book was released on 2009 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the cost and potential defensive capability of the proposed European ground-based midcourse defense system. Also explores alternatives.

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Download or read book Alternatives for Boost-Phase Missile Defense written by Anonymous and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 2004-10-06 edition. Excerpt: ...speed and acceleration would result in the need for fewer interceptors because each one would have a larger footprint. The number of satellites needed to provide full coverage against liquid-fuel ICBMs launched from between 25 and 45 degrees north latitude--a band that encompasses Iran and North Korea--would vary from about 70 to more than 900 for the various combinations of commit time and interceptor speed that the Congressional Budget Office analyzed (see Figure 2-11). (The design implications of different SBI speeds and accelerations are discussed in the next chapter.) Figure 2-11. Number of SBIs Needed for Full Coverage of North Korea and Iran, by Commit Time and Interceptor Speed Source: Congressional Budget Office. Notes: The figures assume that interceptors have an acceleration of lOg, that kill vehicles have a mass of 30 kilograms, and that the life jacket accounts for 50 percent of an SBI's total mass. They also assume that the threat country does not fire more than one ICBM at the same time and that a single interceptor is shot at an ICBM (which is why these numbers differ from the ones shown in Summary Figures 3 and 4). SBI = space-based interceptor; ICBM = intercontinental ballistic missile; km/sec = kilometers per second. Actual number of SBIs is 5,455. a Solid-fuel ICBMs would present a greater challenge to a space-based BPI system, just as they would to a surfacebased system. The shorter burn time of solid-fuel boosters effectively reduces the footprint of each space-based interceptor. Consequently, the spacing between SBIs must be reduced, increasing the size of the constellation. The number of satellites needed to defend against a solidfuel ICBM launched from the aforementioned latitude band would be several times...

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Download or read book Alternatives for Boost-phase Missile Defense written by and published by U.S. Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2004 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines technical, operational, and cost issues related to using a boost-phase intercept (BPI) system to defend the United States against intercontinental ballistic missiles.

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Download or read book Options for Deploying Missile Defenses in Europe written by and published by Congressional Budget Office. This book was released on 2009 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the cost and potential defensive capability of the proposed European ground-based midcourse defense system. Also explores alternatives.