The interceptors are part of an integrated system of ground, sea and space-based sensors, ground and sea-based radars and an advanced command and control, battle management and communication system designed to detect and track a hostile ballistic missile, then launch and guide an interceptor to destroy the target warhead before it can reach its intended target in any of our 50 states.
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It will increase our knowledge on how this particular type of radar will track missiles. The goal is faster processing of information. We need missile information very quickly.Rick Lehner
More will be deployed in 2006 and 2007. But for operational security reasons the Defense Department will no longer divulge how many interceptors are deployed, only that it is in excess of 10.
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Iran and North Korea are two countries that have been spending a great deal of time and money to develop several different types of advanced ballistic missiles, including a type that could possibly reach the U.S. homeland with a weapon of mass destruction in the near future.
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Missile defense has constantly been a challenge because of the technology required to intercept and destroy a warhead in space or on its way back down to Earth. It's a very difficult thing to do.
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