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Air Force

Study: U.S. Military Needs More Cheap Missile Interceptors To Win Salvo Equation Against Peer Adversary

Friday, May 20th, 2016

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Study: U.S. Military Needs More Cheap Missile Interceptors To Win Salvo Equation Against Peer Adversary

An Evolved Seasparrow Missile is launched from the USS Carl Vinson. (Photo: U.S. Navy)

The U.S. military can count on facing guided missiles in its next high-end conflict, but it is not prepared to defend against massed, relatively inexpensive precision weapons.A new study released Friday by the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA) posits that the U.S. military’s strategy of shooting down missiles with missiles is prohibitively expensive and does not provide adequate capacity to deal with dozens or hundreds of incoming threats.Effective deterrence to enemy missile offensives will entail an integrated network…

Congress

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Budget

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Congress

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Congress

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