It would take a large number of U.S. Navy Aegis weapons system ships to shield Europe against enemy missiles from the Middle East, if the United States attempted to use the sea-based system to guard Europe instead of the Ground-based Midcourse missile Defense (GMD) system proposed for the Czech Republic and Poland. That was the assessment of Rear Adm. Alan B. Hicks, program director of the Aegis ballistic missile defense (BMD) system, in a symposium of the George C. Marshall…
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