Search - 21st Century Complete Guide to Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD): ¿Star Wars¿ SDI Program, including Threats, Sensors, History, Boost, Midcourse, and Terminal Defense Segments, Patriot, Intercept Tests, Aegis Navy Systems, EKV, and the Joint National Inte

21st Century Complete Guide to Ballistic Missile Defense Star Wars SDI Program including Threats Sensors History Boost Midcourse and Terminal Defense Segments Patriot Intercept Tests Aegis Navy Systems EKV and the Joint National Inte - BMD
Author: Department of Defense

This incredible CD-ROM provides a comprehensive guide to America's ongoing Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) program, run by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA). Formerly known as the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) and called "Star Wars" by the media and critics, the BMD program will use a layered defense to protect against ballistic missile att...  more »ack. President Bush recently authorized the deployment of the first element of this system in 2004. This detailed material is heavily illustrated with color photographs, drawings, tables, and charts. Topics covered include: * Threats

* Sensors

* History

* ABM Treaty Implications

* Boost, Midcourse, and Terminal Defense Segments

* Ground-based Interceptors, Sea-based Interceptors

* Patriot (PAC-3) units

* Intercept Tests

* Upgraded Early Warning Radars(UEWRs)

* In-flight Interceptor Communications System (IFICS)

* Battle Management, Command, Control, and Communications (BMC3)

* THAAD, MEADS, ARROW

* Aegis Navy Systems

* Comprehensive Glossary

* Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle

* Airborne Laser

* Joint National Integration Center

* Environmental Assessment of Impact of Missile Base in Fort Greely, Alaska

* Much more Over 26,000 pages are reproduced using Adobe Acrobat PDF software - allowing direct viewing on Windows and Apple Macintosh systems. Reader software is included. There is also an extensive collection of images in JPG and PDF formats, and AVI and MOV movie files. This newly revised, updated, and expanded book-on-a-disc makes a great reference work and educational tool. There is no other reference that is as fast, convenient, comprehensive, thoroughly researched, and portable - everything you need to know, from the federal sources you trust. Our CD-ROMs are privately-compiled collections of official public domain U.S. government files and documents - they are not produced by the federal government. They are designed to provide a convenient user-friendly reference work utilizing the benefits of the Adobe Acrobat format to uniformly present thousands of pages that can be rapidly reviewed, searched by finding specific words, or printed without untold hours of tedious research and downloading. Vast archives of important public domain government information that might otherwise remain inaccessible are available for instant review no matter where you are.  « less

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ISBN-13: 9781592481163
ISBN-10: 1592481167
Publication Date: 1/2003
Pages: 26,597
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Publisher: Progressive Management
Book Type: CD-ROM
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