"Trump unveils Missile Defense Review, promises funding for space sensors in 2020"
by Sandra Erwin — January 17, 2019
Source:
https://spacenews.com/trump-unveils-missile-defense-review-promises-funding-for-space-sensors-in-2020/
Published on Sep 27, 2012
High Frontier was a private company that promoted space-based strategic defense against nuclear ICBMs. It was founded by Daniel O. Graham, a retired lieutenant general in the U.S. Army who is often called the "father of SDI". This film promotes Graham's initiative: a...
Artist's impression of FREMM Extended Range (ER) dedicated to air defense missions to be unveiled at Euronaval 2012.
Source:
http://www.navyrecognition.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=644
Conical ABM missile made quite a stir in the 80's gossip's then quickly faded from vogue. Wish I knew if any ever went into service and what became of them. Seems a few made to to museums I would love to pick one up from a remote desert aerospace boneyard....
The Sea-based Anti-Ballastic Missile Intercept System (SABMIS) program, sometimes referred to as Seabourne Anti-Ballistic Missile Intercept System, was a US Navy program to develop a seabourne ICBM defense. Contracts to study the concept were awarded in 1967 to Hughes Aircraft Company, Lockheed...
During the Strategic Defense Initiative days of the mid 1980s, one of the weapons technologies that was discussed was a Hyper Velocity Gun (HVG) placed in orbit to fire at inbound ICBMs and MIRVs.
Artist's conception (top) of USAF space-based hypervelocity launcher aka railgun, among kinetic...
Does anyone have additional information or concept art for the Air-Dominance Cruiser, CG(X)? It sounds like it will be a replacement of the Ticonderoga-class (CG-47) and use technology developed from the Zumwalt-class project.
http://peoships.crane.navy.mil/CGX/default.htm
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I found out some information about Britain's embroynic ABM system designed in the 1950s.
The Ministry of Supply in 1954 placed study contracts with English Electric and Marconi to develop a ballistic missile defence. In February 1955 this led to Air Staff Target AST 1135. The entire programme...
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