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    National missile defense (NMD) refers to the nationwide antimissile program the United States has had under development since the 1990s. After the renaming...
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    ballistic missile defense system (Aegis BMD or ABMD), also known as Sea-Based Midcourse, is a Missile Defense Agency program under the United States Department...
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    theater missiles. China, France, India, Iran, Israel, Italy, Russia, Taiwan, the United Kingdom and the United States have all developed such air defense systems...
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    Missile defense systems are a type of missile defense intended to shield a country against incoming missiles, such as intercontinental ballistic missiles...
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    United States missile defense complex in Poland, replaced a planned site in Redzikowo, Poland with a phased plan—the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System...
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    The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is a component of the United States government's Department of Defense responsible for developing a comprehensive defense...
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    Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), derisively nicknamed the Star Wars program, was a proposed missile defense system intended to protect the United States from...
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    Defense (GMD), previously National Missile Defense (NMD), is an anti-ballistic missile system implemented by the United States of America for defense...
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    The Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO) was an agency of the United States Department of Defense that began on 20 May 1974 with the responsibility...
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    developed by the Missile and Surface Radar Division of RCA, and it is now produced by Lockheed Martin. Initially used by the United States Navy, Aegis is...
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    Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD), formerly Theater High Altitude Area Defense, is an American anti-ballistic missile defense system designed to intercept...
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    Missile 3 (SM-3) is a ship-based surface-to-air missile used by the United States Navy to intercept short- and intermediate-range ballistic missiles as...
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    The United States Army Space and Missile Defense Command (USASMDC) is the Army Service Component Command (ASCC) for United States Strategic Command and...
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  • The National Defense Strategy (NDS) is produced by the United States Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) and is signed by the United States Secretary...
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  • Space and Missile Defense Command to defend the United States homeland against an intercontinental ballistic missile attack. Major Air Defense Artillery...
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  • theater ballistic missiles, not ICBMs. The Alaska-based United States national missile defense system attained initial operational capability in 2004....
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    The Air Defense Artillery Branch is the air defense branch of the United States Army, specializing in the use of anti-aircraft weapons (such as surface-to-air...
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    The United States Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) is one of the eleven unified combatant commands in the United States Department of Defense. Headquartered...
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    NATO missile defense system is a missile defense system being constructed by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in several member states and...
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    government directly related to national security and the United States Armed Forces. As of November 2022, the U.S. Department of Defense is the second largest...
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  • In air and missile defense (AMD), the Integrated Air-and-Missile Defense system (IAMD) is an United States Army Space and Missile Defense Command (USASMDC)...
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    defense batteries (RGM-84), from which it would be fired with a solid-fuel rocket booster In 1965, the United States Navy began studies for a missile...
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    United Defense Industries (UDI) was an American defense contractor which became part of BAE Systems Land & Armaments after being acquired by BAE Systems...
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    anti-ballistic missiles designed to fulfill an Israeli requirement for a missile defense system that would be more effective against ballistic missiles than the...
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    The Precision Strike Missile (PrSM; PRI-zim) is a short-range ballistic missile developed by the United States Army to replace the MGM-140 ATACMS. The...
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    of Nike missile sites operated by the United States Army. This article lists sites in the United States, most responsible to Army Air Defense Command;...
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    Missile Defense Brigade (Ground-based Midcourse Defense), known as 100th MDB (GMD), is a multi-component (meaning both Title 10 and Title 32) United States...
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    The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, also known as the ABM Treaty or ABMT, was an arms control treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union on the...
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    medium-range missile system manufactured by MBDA France. Its name is an abbreviation of Missile d'Interception, de Combat et d'Auto-défense (lit. 'Interception...
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    Command – United States Army Space and Missile Defense Command". smdc.army.mil. Retrieved 17 February 2024. "USASOC Overview". United States Army. Retrieved...
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