Ballistic Missile Defence
To their proponents, US ballistic missile defence programmes are a vital component in the nation’s defence. To their opponents, these programmes are an expensive boondoggle – projects that consume vast amounts of money while offering little or no useful defensive capability. To Russia and China, they are inherently destabilising, and threaten to upset the nuclear status-quo.
During this online seminar, Jane’s will present a report on the status of the current US programmes – Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD), Aegis BMD, Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD), the Network Centric Airborne Defense Element (NCADE), Patriot PAC-3 and the Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS), then look at the technological factors that lay behind the recent US decision to abandon most of its boost-phase missile defence programmes in favour of new approaches based on interception during the ascent phase.
We will examine describing the likely technical problems now faced both by the creators of ascent-phase defence systems, and potentially hostile states developing ballistic missiles and countermeasures such as decoys that could help these weapons penetrate missile-defences.
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The presentation will include a question and answer session during which you will be able to explore and discuss the topic with Jane’s analysts in greater detail.