MODERN ASSUMPTIONS OF THE AMERICAN BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENCE SYSTEM AGAINST THE BACKGROUND OF HISTORICAL CONCEPTS AND PROGRAMMES [PDF]
The issue of missile defence has been present in American policy for over 70 years and is constantly subject to research and the search for new technologies.
Murat-Bors, Aleksandra +1 more
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Probabilistic Analysis of Anti-ship Missile Defence Effectiveness [PDF]
Effective missile defence systems are primary requirement for naval ships to counter lethal anti-ship cruise missile attacks in today’s naval warfare scenario. Anti-ship ballistic missiles would further add worry to ship missile defence.
Dutta, Debasis
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Ballistic missile defence : technology, effectiveness and organization : key issues [PDF]
The article serves as an introduction to the set of papers that are devoted to the issue of ballistic missile defence as seen from the Polish perspective.
Czajkowski, Marek
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The Cooperative Ballistic Missile Defence Game
The increasing proliferation of ballistic missiles and weapons of mass destruction poses new risks worldwide. For a threatened nation and given the characteristics of this threat a layered ballistic missile defence system strategy appears to be the ...
Evers, L., Barros, A.I., Monsuur, H.
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Navy Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) Program: Background and Issues for Congress [PDF]
This report provides background information and issues for Congress on the Aegis ballistic missile defense (BMD) program, which is carried out by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and the Navy, and gives Navy Aegis cruisers and destroyers a capability for
O'Rourke, Ronald
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Chasing gravity's rainbow: Kwajalein and US ballistic missile testing [PDF]
The international regime for controlling the spread of weapons of mass destruction is at a cross-roads. The existing Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty regime is inadequate to the task of controlling ballistic missile development, and these missiles are ...
Hayes, Peter +2 more
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Missile defence : trends, concerns and remedies
At the 14th Roundtable here in Kuala Lumpur in June 2000, I argued that: 'It is time for another debate about missile defences, but the arguments (both positive and negative) will be very different from those which obtained during the mutual nuclear ...
Ball, Desmond
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Donald Trump’s Administration Confronting Missile Defence: Key Challenges and Probabilistic Overview [PDF]
The text describes main US missile defence efforts in the first years of D. Trump’s administration. The analysis of current aspects of BMD (Ballistic Missile Defence) deployments is enhanced by probability analysis examining missile defence reliability ...
Nycz, Grzegorz, Grzegorz Nycz
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Does Europe Need a New Missile Defence System? ESF Working Papers No. 27, November 2007 [PDF]
US plans for a ballistic missile defence system in Europe have given rise to opposition in Russia and tensions in Europe. While some argue that the defence shield is needed to protect Europe against new threats from the proliferation of long-range ...
Slocombe, Walter +2 more
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Penetration of a glass-faced transparent elastomeric resin by a lead-antimony-cored bullet [PDF]
The penetration of the lead antimony-cored 7.62 mm × 51 mm bullet into a glass- faced polyurethane elastomeric polymer resin has been studied. The resulting craters in the resin contained elongated bullet core material that had a significant amount of ...
Hazell, P.J. +5 more
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