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Navy Concentrates On Midcourse, Terminal Ballistic Missile Defense

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, September 13th, 2012

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The Navy’s ballistic missile defense priorities are on intercepting an adversary’s ballistic missiles in the midcourse or terminal phase--exactly where the most recent assessment of missile defense programs recommends putting federal funds. Since thinking about ballistic missile defense in the 1990s to first deployments aboard Aegis cruisers and destroyers equipped with the Aegis BMD capability, the Navy has viewed itself as complementary to the ballistic missile defense system (BMDS), said Capt. James Kilby, deputy for BMD and Aegis for Rear Adm.…

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