Long-Range Protection / Intermediate-Range Protection / Short-Range Protection
Long-Range Missile Threat Protection
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Ground-Based
- Ground-Based Midcourse Defense Fort Greely, Alaska
- Ground-Based Midcourse Defense Ronald Reagan Missile Defense Site, Vandenberg Air Force Base, California
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Air-Based
- Airborne Laser (2010-Test)
Ground-Based
- Land-Based Standard Missile-3 (Initial deployment 2015) |
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Interceptors |
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Ground-Based
- 22 Ground-Based Interceptors (Alaska)
- 3 Ground-Based Interceptors (California) |
Ground-Based
- Up to 30 Ground-Based Interceptors in Alaska and California (by the end of 2010) |
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Radars / Sensors |
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Space-Based
- 2 Defense Support Program Satellites
- 2 Space Tracking and Surveillance System Satellites (Formerly known as a Space-Based Infrared System Low) (United States Air Force)
Ground-Based
- Early Warning Radars (EWR)
- Shemya (Alaska)
- Upgraded Early Warning Radars (UEWR)
- Beale (California)
- Thule (Greenland) (currently being upgraded) - Fylingdales (United Kingdom)
- X-Band Radar (Kwajalein, Republic of the Marshall Islands)
- PAVE Paws Air Force Space Command radar system
- Cape Cod Air Force Station, Massachusetts
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Beale Air Force Base, California
Sea-Based
- 1 Sea-Based X-band Radar (SBX) (deployed near Adak, Alaska)
- 21 AN/SPY-1 radars; part of the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense fleet with Long-range Survelliance and Tracking Capability |
Space-Based
- Space-Based Infrared System to replace the Defense Support Program (6 by the end of the deployment)
Ground-Based
- 2 Army/Navy Transportable Radar Surveillance-2 (AN/TPY-2)
Sea-Based
- 6 additional Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense ships with Long-range Surveillance and Tracking Capability (upgrade by 2012/2013)
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Intermediate-/Medium-Range Missile Threat Protection
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Launch Platforms |
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Sea-Based
- 3 Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense Engagement and Long-range Surveillance & Tracking Cruisers
- USS Port Royal (CG-73)
- USS Shiloh (CG-67)
- USS Lake Erie (CG-70)
- 15 Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense Engagement and Long-range Surveillance & Tracking Destroyers
- USS John Paul Jones (DDG-53)
- USS Paul Hamilton (DDG-60)
- USS Benfold (DDG-65)
- USS Milius (DDG-69)
- USS Hopper (DDG-70)
- USS Higgins (DDG-76)
- USS O'Kane (DDG-77)
- USS Curtis Wilbur (DDG-54)
- USS Stout (DDG-55)
- USS John S. McCain (DDG-56)
- USS Russell (DDG-59)
- USS Ramage (DDG-61)
- USS Fitzgerald (DDG-62)
- USS Stethem (DDG-63)
- USS Decatur (DDG-73)
Ground-Based
- 1 Terminal High Altitude Area Defense Fire Unit
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Air-Based
- Airborne Laser Test Bed
Ground-Based
- 1 additional Terminal High Altitude Area Defense Fire Unit
Sea-Based
- 1 additional Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense Engagement Destroyer in 2010
- 2 additional Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense Engagement Cruisers in 2010
- 6 addtitional Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense ships (by 2012/2013)
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Interceptors |
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Sea-Based
- 35 sea-based Standard Missile-3 (SM-3)
Ground-Based
- 8 Terminal High Altitude Area Defense Interceptors
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Ground-Based
- 26 total Terminal High Altitude Area Defense Interceptors (by the end of 2010)
Sea-Based
- 81 total Standart Missile-3 interceptors (by the end of 2010) |
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Radars/Sensors |
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Ground-Based
- Army/Navy Transportable Radar Surveillance-2 (AN/TPY-2)
- 2 deployed (Shariki Airbase Japan; Israel) , 6 developed, seventh under production
- PAVE Paws Air Force Space Command radar system
- Cape Cod Air Force Station, Massachusetts
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Beale Air Force Base, California
Space-Based
- Defense Support Program Satellites
- 2 Space Tracking and Surveillance System Satellites (Formerly known as a Space-Based Infrared System Low) (United States Air Force)
Sea-Based
- 21 Aegis ships with Long-range Surveillance and Tracking Capability |
Space-Based
- Space-Based Infrared System to replace the Defense Support Program (6 by the end of the deployment)
Sea-Based
- 6 additional Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense ships with Long-range Surveillance and Tracking Capability (upgrade by 2012/2013) |
Short-Range Missile Threat Protection
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Ground-Based
- 44 Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) Fire Units
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1 Terminal High Altitude Area Defense Fire Unit
Sea-Based
- 3 Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense Engagement and Long-range Surveillance & Tracking Cruisers
- 15 Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense Engagement and Long-range Surveillance & Tracking Destroyers
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Air-Based
- Airborne Laser Test Bed
Ground-Based
- 58 total Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) Fire Units
- 1 additional Terminal High Altitude Area Defense Fire Unit
- Medium Extended Air Defense System (by 2014)
Sea-Based
- 1 additional Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense Engagement Destroyer in 2010
- 2 additional Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense Engagement Cruisers in 2010
- 6 addtitional Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense ships (by 2012/2013) |
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| Interceptors |
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Ground-Based
- 727 Patriot Advanced Capability-3 interceptors
- 8 Terminal High Altitude Area Defense interceptors
Sea-Based
- 35 Standard Missile-3 interceptors
- approx. 58 Standart Missile-2 interceptors |
Ground-Based
- 831 total Patriot Advanced Capability-3 interceptors (by the end of 2010)
- 26 total Terminal High Altitude Area Defense interceptors (by the end of 2010)
Sea-Based
- 70 Standard Missile-2 (by the end of 2010)
- 81 Standard Missile-3 interceptors (delivered by the end of 2010) |
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| Radars/Sensors |
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Ground-Based
- Patriot Advanced Capability-3 Radars
- 1 Terminal High Altitude Area Defense
Sea-Based
- 21 Aegis ships with Long-range Surveillance and Tracking Capability |
Ground-
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- 2 total Terminal High Altitude Area Defense radars (by the end of the 2010)
- Medium Extended Air Defense System (by the end of 2012)
Sea-Based
- 1 additional Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense Engagement Destroyer in 2010
- 2 additional Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense Engagement Cruisers in 2010
- 6 addtitional Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense ships (by 2012/2013) |