News tagged with ballistic missile defense system
US nuclear safety claim is a 'dangerous fantasy': study
In April 2010, the US government adopted a new nuclear strategy that depends on the conclusion that the current missile defense systems will reliably protect the continental United States in the extreme circumstances of nuclear-armed ...
Nov 01, 2010 |
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US sends 2 missile defense satellites into orbit
(AP) -- Two satellites are heading to orbit as part of a missile defense program demonstration.
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Sep 25, 2009 |
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Engineering a safer world
Innovations in software and technology are creating increasingly complex systems: cars that park themselves; medical devices that automatically deliver drugs; and smartphones with the computing power of desktop ...
Apr 24, 2012 |
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With a bang, Navy begins tests on electromagnetic railgun prototype launcher
Engineers have fired the Navy's first industry-built electromagnetic railgun (EM Railgun) prototype launcher at a test facility, commencing an evaluation that is an important intermediate step toward a future ...
Feb 28, 2012 |
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Navy to begin tests on electromagnetic railgun prototype launcher
The Office of Naval Research (ONR)'s Electromagnetic (EM) Railgun program will take an important step forward in the coming weeks when the first industry railgun prototype launcher is tested at a facility ...
Feb 06, 2012 |
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Navy researchers fire 1,000th shot on laboratory electromagnetic railgun
Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) hit a materials research milestone in the Office of Naval Research's (ONR) Electromagnetic Railgun program when they fired a laboratory-scale system for the ...
Oct 31, 2011 |
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Contact lost with hypersonic glider after launch (Update)
An unmanned hypersonic glider developed for U.S. defense research into super-fast global strike capability was launched atop a rocket early Thursday but contact was lost after the experimental craft began ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 11, 2011 |
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Lockheed Martin's multi-mission signal processor completes tracking test
The Lockheed Martin Aegis SPY-1 radar successfully identified, tracked and conducted simulated engagements against live aircraft in a stressing electronic attack environment during a test of the Multi-Mission Signal ...
Jul 26, 2011 |
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Second successful PAC-3 MSE intercept flight test conducted
Lockheed Martin’s enhanced version of the combat-proven PAC-3 Missile, the PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhancement, successfully intercepted a threat representative tactical ballistic missile target in the MSE battlespace ...
Mar 03, 2011 |
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MEADS radar completes rotation tests, prepares to move to test range
The Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) program has successfully completed milestone tests as the first Multifunction Fire Control Radar (MFCR) advances toward system tests this year at Pratica di Mare ...
Feb 01, 2011 |
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Improving U.S. missile defense
Researchers at Purdue University are working with the U.S. Department of Defense's Missile Defense Agency to develop software that would improve the ability to manage the large volume of incoming data during an enemy attack.
Oct 25, 2010 |
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Missile defense test aborted when target fails
(AP) -- The Missile Defense Agency says a planned test of a ground-based missile defense system in Hawaii was aborted because the target missile failed.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 12, 2009 |
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