Saturday at the Movies: 33 Minutes

BySteeljawscribe 2 May 20091 May 2009

Continuing the missile defense theme from the stand-up of the NAMDC, offered here is a new trailer for the Heritage Foundation film on the need for missile defense:

Geopolitics | history lessons | Missile Defense | Nuclear weapons

Iran, Venezuela and MRBMs
BySteeljawscribe 13 December 201013 December 2010

According to some reports from various locations (I’ll begin with Hudson Institute’s as that is where I first read it with a h/t to Xformed for his heads-up) it would appear that back in October, Iran and Venezuela signed an agreement that, among other things, would establish a joint base in Venezuela as well as…

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Air Warfare | Geopolitics | history lessons | Maritime Strategy | Missile Defense | Navy

Everything Old is New Again*
BySteeljawscribe 19 June 201219 June 2012

* Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Embrace The Bad Old Days Get out your white suit, your tap shoes and tails Let’s go backwards when forward fails And movie stars you thought were alone then Now are framed beside your bed Don’t throw the pa-ast away You might need it some rainy…

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Missile Defense

SM-2 Successfully Intercepts SRBM
BySteeljawscribe 6 June 200810 June 2008

SM-2 Intercept of SRBM 5 Jun 08 Aegis, Sm-2 Interceptors Kill Target Missile In Terminal-Phase Success (DEFENSE DAILY 06 JUN 08) … Dave Ahearn The Aegis weapon control system guided two Standard Missile-2 (SM-2) Block IV interceptors that obliterated a target missile in its terminal phase of flight, as the foreign-built unitary Scud-like target missile…

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Geopolitics | history lessons | Missile Defense

Observations of a Missile Launch – I
BySteeljawscribe 7 April 2009

Much discussion and analysis (or what some try to pass off as analysis) in the ‘verse.Â Many, most in fact, are focused on the specifics of the failure and potential threat to the US.Â But there is more to this than meets the (media) eye, so let’s break it down here.Â We’ll break this into…

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Air Warfare | Missile Defense | Navy

IAMD Acquisition Updates: E-2D Advanced Hawkeye and SM-3 Blk IIB
BySteeljawscribe 17 April 2011

Couple of developments in the last week with regards to major systems in our Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) plans for the coming decades: Item: The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has awarded concept definition contracts to three teams competing for the SM-3 Block IIB advanced interceptor (aka: Next Generation Aegis Missile (NGAM)). Designed to…

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Speaking of Ascent Phase Intercept…
BySteeljawscribe 14 May 2009

As early as November 2002, the Navy demonstrated an ascent-phase intercept capability using an SM-3 launched from USS Lake Erie (CG 70) to intercept a SCUD-like target vehicle launched from the Pacific Missile Range Facility, as MDA test FM-4, codenamed Stellar Viper.Â The test objectives and knowledge points gained were set forth in the contemporary…

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virfgil xenophon says:

2 May 2009 at 23:04

Couldn’t help but notice on your comments over at the NI blog about passing an old Nike site every day. One of my 1st cousins (WP’43) commanded the Army Nike Ajax/Hercules site on San Pablo Ridge overlooking SF, CA in 1960 as an Army LTC, made O-6 out of it. Of course all that went away and the sealed site is now part of a Nat. Park with tours–and under the gaze of covetous real-estate interests.

Now we talk of upgrading/reconstituting the whole concept everybody once said was obsolete. Everything old is new again…
virgil xenophon says:

2 May 2009 at 23:11

LOL Had to post again just so the computer would remember the correct spelling of my nom de plume.

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