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The U.S. Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) investigated a variety of missile defense strategies, many involving exotic technologies such as the X-ray lasers [87] envisioned by Project Excalibur, or the Brilliant Pebbles kinetic-kill satellite system. [88] None of the more exotic systems were pursued to prototyping.
Some French analysts, notably Camille Grand, [74] view missile defense as jeopardizing both the doctrine and the treaty, as well as risking a new arms race, [73] which is reflected in the development of advanced missile defense counter measures and decoys as well as a higher number of and more maneuverable independently targetable reentry ...
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A specimen of SCALP missile inside the MBDA factory in Bourges, central France, on March 20, 2023. - Guillaume Souvant/AFP/Getty Images/File
It also noted that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un set out a defense plan in 2021 calling for producing tactical warheads, “lighter nuclear weapons” and “ultra-large nuclear warheads.”
A Ground-Based Interceptor of the United States' Ground-Based Midcourse Defense system, loaded into a silo at Fort Greely, Alaska, in July 2004. An anti-ballistic missile (ABM) is a surface-to-air missile designed to defend against ballistic missiles.
France's defense minister on Wednesday pledged further military support for Ukraine insisting his government's backing is unflagging while efforts are also being made with Moscow to reach an ...
Concerns over the US Missile Defense (MD) program have led several high-ranking Russian political, military, and industry officials to openly discuss military countermeasures to the system. The SS-27—developed in the 1980s as a response to the Strategic Defense Initiative—probably is the basis for Russia's most credible responses to missile ...