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  2. Comparison of anti-ballistic missile systems - Wikipedia

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    Iron Dome uses principles that are similar to a true anti-ballistic missile system to intercept slower-moving short-range rockets and artillery projectiles, employing the Tamir missile at ranges of up to 70km and altitudes to 10km, at a cost of about $50,000 per missile. Iron Dome also has an anti-aircraft capability.

  3. Multiple Kill Vehicle - Wikipedia

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    The MKV mission was to destroy medium-range through intercontinental-range ballistic missiles equipped with multiple warheads or countermeasures by using a single interceptor missile. During an actual hostile ballistic missile attack, the carrier vehicle with its cargo of small kill vehicles would have maneuvered into the path of an enemy missile.

  4. Ground-Based Interceptor - Wikipedia

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    The Missile Defense Agency leads the development of anti-ballistic missiles for North America. The Next Generation Interceptor (NGI) [21]: 4:13 is a MDA program to upgrade the kill vehicles for the ground-based interceptors, with different vendors, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman competing. [22]

  5. The Navy's top ballistic missile interceptor comes with a ...

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    American warships have fired the multi-million-dollar Standard Missile-3 interceptor twice this year, calling attention to costs and stockpiles.

  6. Missile defense systems by country - Wikipedia

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    The Arrow system consists of the joint production hypersonic Arrow anti-missile interceptor, the Elta EL/M-2080 "Green Pine" early-warning AESA radar, the Tadiran Telecom "Golden Citron" ("Citron Tree") C 3 I center, and the Israel Aerospace Industries "Brown Hazelnut" ("Hazelnut Tree") launch control center. The system is transportable, as it ...

  7. Ground-Based Midcourse Defense - Wikipedia

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    Interceptor sites are at Fort Greely, Alaska [12] [13] [14] and Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. A third site was planned for a proposed US missile defense complex in Poland, [15] but was canceled in September 2009. In December 2008, the U.S. Missile Defense Agency awarded Boeing a $397.9 million contract to continue development of the ...