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Biden Missile Defense Review Pushes For 20 NGIs; Repeats GMD Not Aimed At Russia, China

Friday, October 28th, 2022

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Biden Missile Defense Review Pushes For 20 NGIs; Repeats GMD Not Aimed At Russia, China

Concept image of Lockheed Martin version of Next Generation Interceptors (NGI) in flight. (Artist rendering: Lockheed Martin)

The Biden administration’s new Missile Defense Review (MDR) maintains a push for 20 new Next Generation Interceptors while it continues to note this kind of system is only geared toward a threat like North Korea. “As North Korean ballistic missile threats to the U.S. homeland continue to evolve, the United States is committed to improving the capability and reliability of the GMD system. This includes development of the Next Generation Interceptor (NGI) to augment and potentially replace the existing Ground-Based…

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