Comparison of Boost Phase Prediction Methods For Missile Defense

Airborne Boost-Phase Ballistic Missile Defense

Boost-phase ballistic missile defense is alluring because rocket boosters are easy to detect and track, they are relatively vulnerable due to the large axial loads on a missile under powered flight, the entire payload (single or multiple warheads and midcourse penetration aids) may be destroyed in a single shot, and countermeasures to defeat boostphase defense are more difficult to devise than ...

Alternatives for Boost-Phase Missile Defense

Alternatives for Boost-Phase Missile Defense

Optimal Allocation and Effectiveness of Midcourse Interceptors in a Layered Defense

Adaptive preferential employment of interceptors in midcourse ballistic missile defense is considered. The defense discriminates decoys, with such discrimination characterized by a K-factor, and determines optimal intercepts and salvo structure in shoot-look-shoot scenarios. The attacker's strategy to determine proper allocation of warheads to targets of varying value in the presence of a defen...

Building a Persian Gulf Missile Defense Shield and its Impact on Regional Security: (2001-2017)

The gradual development of the US missile defense shield from Europe to the Persian Gulf region over the past decade and the deployment of radar components and defenses of this project, both in the Persian Gulf region and in its floating zone, have plenty implications for regional and international systems and has aggravated the fragile security of the Persian Gulf region. Some issues such as t...