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Complex Air Defense

Countering the Hypersonic Missile Threat

ISBN-13: 9781538140536
Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
Imprint: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
By Tom Karako, By Masao Dahlgren
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Local release date: 07/11/2022
Format: Paperback (280.00mm X 218.00mm) 68 pages Weight: 213g
Categories: Warfare & defence [JW]

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Google Preview: In the past five years, Russia, China, and others have accelerated their development of hypersonic missiles to threaten U.S. forces in the homeland and abroad. The current Ballistic Missile Defense System, largely equipped to contend with legacy ballistic missile threats, must be adapted to this challenge. The same characteristics that make hypersonic missiles attractive may also hold the key to defeating them. This CSIS report argues how a new hypersonic defense architecture should exploit hypersonic weapons' unique vulnerabilities and employ new capabilities, such as a space sensor layer, to secure critical nodes. These changes are not only necessary to mitigate the hypersonic threat but to defeat an emerging generation of maneuvering missiles and aerial threats.; Tom Karako is a senior fellow with the International Security Program and the director of the Missile Defense Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Masao Dahlgren is a research associate with the Missile Defense Project at CSIS.; List of Figures V Introduction 1 Findings 3 1 | An Attribute, Not a Thing 5 Taxonomy Blurring into Spectrum 8 Vulnerabilities of Hypersonic Flight 10 Defense Is Possible 13 2 | The Current Programmatic Context 17 Space Sensors 19 Interceptor Development 23 Command and Control 27 Budget Outlook 28 3 | Channeling the Threat 29 Encouraging Maneuver 30 Mobility and Distribution 32 4 | Exploiting New Failure Modes 34 Area-Wide Effects 35 Twenty-First Century Flak 37 Directed Energy 38 Modular Payloads 39 5 | Reformulating the Mission 41 Preferential Defense 42 Passive Defense and Deception 42 Missile Defeat 43 Data, Doctrine, and Organization 43 6 | International Cooperation and the Industrial Base 45 Conclusion: A Difficult but Tractable Problem 48 About the Authors 50 Endnotes 51; Google Preview content

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