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  2. United States national missile defense - Wikipedia

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    MDA and the Space Development Agency (SDA) are currently developing elements of a hypersonic missile defense system to defend against hypersonic weapons; these elements include the tracking and transport layers of the National Defense Space Architecture (NDSA) and various interceptor programs, although the maneuverability and low flight ...

  3. Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor - Wikipedia

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    The product of the 2019 Missile Defense Review's (MDR) for further enhancement of the US national missile defense system, the HBTSS will provide quality intercept data to the GPI. Equipped with "Birth-to-death" capability, the HBTSS can track potential threats from their launch until interception. [2]

  4. How hypersonic missiles work and the unique threats ... - AOL

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    Hypersonic missiles can change course to avoid detection and anti-missile defenses. U.S. Air Force graphicRussia used a hypersonic missile against a Ukrainian arms depot in the western part of the ...

  5. Conventional Prompt Strike - Wikipedia

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    The Advanced Hypersonic Weapon (AHW) performs its first flight in 2011 on a STARS missile from the Pacific Missile Range Facility at Kauai in Hawaii On 18 November 2011, the first advanced hypersonic weapon (AHW) glide vehicle was successfully tested by the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command as part of the Prompt Global Strike program.

  6. Japan, US move ahead in co-developing hypersonic weapons ...

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    Japan and the United States on Wednesday signed an arrangement to jointly develop a new type of missile defense system as the allies seek to defend against the growing threat of hypersonic weapons ...

  7. Will Trump’s ‘Iron Dome’ missile defense make ... - AOL

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    Today's U.S. missile defenses are “neither intended for (nor) capable of defending the homeland against the ballistic missiles of … Russia and China,” the nonpartisan Congressional Research ...

  8. Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon - Wikipedia

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    The United States Navy intends to procure a ship/submarine-launched variant of the missile as part of the service's Intermediate-Range Conventional Prompt Strike (IRCPS) program. [2] The weapon consists of a large rocket booster that carries the unpowered Common-Hypersonic Glide Body (C-HGB) in a nose cone. Once the booster reaches significant ...

  9. Missile defense - Wikipedia

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    Missile defense is a system, weapon, or technology involved in the detection, tracking, interception, and also the destruction of attacking missiles.Conceived as a defense against nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), its application has broadened to include shorter-ranged non-nuclear tactical and theater missiles.