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  2. Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System - Wikipedia

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    The motto in Latin: Custos Custodum Ipsorum means "Guard of the Guardians Themselves" in English. The Aegis ballistic missile defense system (Aegis BMD or ABMD), [1] also known as Sea-Based Midcourse, is a Missile Defense Agency program under the United States Department of Defense developed to provide missile defense against short and intermediate-range ballistic missiles.

  3. Aegis Combat System - Wikipedia

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    On 5 October 2011, U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta announced that the United States Navy will station four Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System warships at Naval Station Rota, Spain, to strengthen its presence in the Mediterranean Sea and bolster the ballistic missile defense (BMD) of NATO as part of the European Phased Adaptive ...

  4. AN/SPY-6 - Wikipedia

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    AN/SPY-6 system overview. In October 2013, "Raytheon Company (RTN) [was] awarded an almost $386m cost-plus-incentive-fee contract for the Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) phase design, development, integration, test, and delivery of Air and Missile Defense S-band Radar (AMDR-S) and Radar Suite Controller (RSC)."

  5. The Navy's top ballistic missile interceptor comes with a ...

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    The US Navy's SM-3 has been a key interceptor to defend Israel from Iranian attacks this year. SM-3s are expensive, ranging from $10 to $30 million per missile, and plans for procurement are low ...

  6. Phalanx CIWS - Wikipedia

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    The basis of the system is the 20 mm M61 Vulcan rotary cannon, used by the United States military on various tactical aircraft since 1959, linked to a K u band fire control radar system for acquiring and tracking targets. This proven system was combined with a purpose-made mounting, capable of fast elevation and traverse speeds, to track ...

  7. AN/SEQ-3 Laser Weapon System - Wikipedia

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    The AN/SEQ-3 Laser Weapon System or XN-1 LaWS [1] is a laser weapon developed by the United States Navy. The weapon was installed on USS Ponce for field testing in 2014. In December 2014, the United States Navy reported that the LaWS system worked perfectly against low-end asymmetric threats, and that the commander of Ponce was authorized to ...

  8. RIM-161 Standard Missile 3 - Wikipedia

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    The RIM-161 Standard 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 a part of Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System. [5]

  9. Ground-Based Midcourse Defense - Wikipedia

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    A Ground-Based Interceptor loaded into a silo at Fort Greely, Alaska in July 2004.. Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD), previously National Missile Defense (NMD), is an anti-ballistic missile system implemented by the United States of America for defense against ballistic missiles, during the midcourse phase of ballistic trajectory flight.