Ballistic missile defense/Related Articles

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Ballistic missile [r]: A guided missile which, once its engines stop firing, follows a generally parabolic path to its target, defined by momentum, aerodynamic resistance, and gravity ^[e]

Hit-to-kill [r]: The infliction of damage by a weapon, which does not depend on other than mechanical energy transfer. At the low end, it can be as simple as a bullet hitting a nonmoving target, and at the high end, it can include the immense energies of a collision between an incoming ballistic missile and an intercept vehicle. It is a subset of kinetic kill, which includes explosives and other physically destructive "hard kill" mechanisms. ^[e]
Missile Defense Agency [r]: Add brief definition or description

AN/SPY-2 [r]: A supplementary radar for AEGIS battle management system ships, which adds theater ballistic missile defense engagement for the RIM-161 Standard SM-3 missile ^[e]
AN/TPY-2 [r]: A long-range, high-altitude X-band phased array radar for use to guide the top layer anti-ballistic missiles (i.e., THAAD) of a theater ballistic missile defense system, cueing for lower-altitude system, and as a component of national missile defense ^[e]

53T6 (missile) [r]: Russian exoatmospheric anti-ballistic missile, armed with a nuclear warhead and used as the upper-layer of the A-135 (system) protecting Moscow. Known in the West as ABM-4 GORGON. ^[e]
W71 (nuclear weapon) [r]: A 5MT anti-ballistic missile warhead of the early 1970s, intended to destroy targets in space with bursts of X-rays and a precursor of future directed energy weapons ^[e]
LIM-49 Spartan [r]: Add brief definition or description
Ground-Based Interceptor [r]: Add brief definition or description
RIM-161 Standard SM-3 [r]: Theater anti-ballistic (i.e., midcourse and terminal phases) and anti-satellite missile, using hit-to-kill, launched from ships equipped with the AN/SPY-2 radar and AEGIS battle management system. ^[e]
Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (missile) [r]: An anti-ballistic missile, developed by the U.S. Army, intended as the high-altitude tier of a layered theater ballistic missile defense system ^[e]
A-35 (system) [r]: Add brief definition or description
A-350 (system) [r]: Add brief definition or description
A-135 (system) [r]: A two-layer anti-ballistic missile defense for the Moscow area. ^[e]

Arrow (missile) [r]: A high-altitude anti-ballistic missile, co-developed by Israel and the United States, intended to engage theater ballistic missiles above the range of the complementary MIM-104 Patriot ^[e]
MIM-104 Patriot [r]: Missile originally developed for medium-to-high altitude aircraft interception (SAM) use, which, while retaining that capability, is now optimized as an anti-ballistic missile (ABM) for relatively small but critical areas. The SAM versions have explosive warheads but the ABM is hit-to-kill. ^[e]
V-1000 (missile) [r]: The first Soviet anti-ballistic missile, principally a prototype ^[e]
51T6 (missile) [r]: Russian endoatmospheric anti-ballistic missile used in the two-layer Moscow defense system; may have nuclear or conventional warhead; Western designation ABM-3 GAZELLE ^[e]