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    The Ground-Based Interceptor (GBI) is the anti-ballistic missile component of the United States' Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system. This interceptor...
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    Kill Vehicle (EKV) – Raytheon Ground-Based Interceptor (GBI) – boost vehicle built by Orbital Sciences; for every interceptor missile there is a missile...
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    2002, the term now refers to the entire program, not just the ground-based interceptors and associated facilities. Other elements that could potentially...
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    boost vehicle of the Ground-Based Interceptor, the anti-ballistic missile component of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency's Ground-Based Midcourse Defense system...
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    Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system and the Ground-Based Interceptor currently deployed as part of the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system. An early...
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    Vehicle (EKV) is the Raytheon-manufactured interceptor component with subcontractor Aerojet of the U.S. Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD), part of the larger...
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    there are currently only 44 ground-based interceptors available to counter projectiles headed towards the US. (This interceptor count does not include the...
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    Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, Fort Greely was selected as a site for the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense system. Starting in the summer of 2002, the United...
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    MKV was planned to be deployed on board Ground-Based Interceptor (GBI) missiles, Kinetic Energy Interceptor (KEI) and SM-3 Block IIA as well. The MKV...
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    Brigade operates the Ground Based Interceptor system and is located at Schriever Space Force Base, Vandenberg Space Force Base, and Fort Greely. Former...
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    in Europe to provide adequate coverage. Compared to the GMD's Ground-Based Interceptor however, the SM-3 Block I has about 1⁄5 to 1⁄6 of the range. A...
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    early April 2013, the Pentagon announced plans to deploy 14 more Ground-Based Interceptor (GBI) missiles to Alaska in response to the North Korean threats...
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    it could have a maximum of 100 ground-based interceptors and they had to be in the vicinity of Grand Forks Air Force Base. It was specifically stated that...
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    both ground-based and airborne radar gave greater flexibility to existing fighters and few later designs were conceived as dedicated day interceptors. Exceptions...
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    Vandenberg in 2005 is the Ground-based Interceptor (GBI) missile suborbital booster for the U.S. Missile Defense Agency's Ground-based Midcourse Defense system's...
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    accelerated. FY2022 decisions on GPI/Ground-Based Interceptor, GBI replacement (the Next generation interceptor NGI) will be made by Deputy Secretary...
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  • for example see California Penal Code#Notable section numbers Ground-Based Interceptor, an American anti-ballistic missile system General Building Inspector...
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    States Department of Defense, Germany and Italy. Ground-Based Interceptor#Next generation interceptor (NGI) Joint Functional Component Command for Integrated...
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    2004 onwards has served as the standard booster for trials of the Ground-Based Interceptor. From the early days of the Polaris program, American senators...
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  • "Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD)". Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance. January 31, 2019. Retrieved 18 April 2024. "Ground-based Interceptor (GBI)"...
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  • (HBTSS) is a satellite-based sensor system being developed by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) along with the Glide Phase Interceptor (GPI) to address hypersonic...
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    critical targeting data to a long-range ground-based interceptor (GBI) launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. GBI's protect the US from limited...
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    designated the SM-1A was flown in and installed between 1960–62, and was based on the Army's first prototype reactor, the SM-1 at Fort Belvoir, Virginia...
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  • for the land-based Minuteman missile series. In the 2000s the silo was remodeled into a launch site for an Interceptor for the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense...
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    Aegis air defense systems and to ground-based interceptor missile sites. A hundred and sixty personnel will be based at the station. Kyoto prefecture's...
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    Boeing Defense, Space & Security (category Companies based in St. Louis County, Missouri)
    missile MGM-118 Peacekeeper Ground-Based Midcourse Defense Ground-Based Interceptor UUM-125 Sea Lance AGM-131 SRAM II Boeing Ground-to-Air Pilotless Aircraft...
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  • performance. June 2010 6 June 2010 at 22:25 UTC Ground-Based Interceptor test launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base. First STSS Object Sighting Messages (OSM)...
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    Vandenberg Launch Complex 576E (category Vandenberg Space Force Base)
    Force Base". Failure hits Nasa's 'CO2 hunter' "NASA launch mishap: Satellite crashes into ocean". CBS. March 4, 2011. "Boeing Ground-Based Interceptor". www...
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    United States Army Space and Missile Defense Command (category Organizations based in Colorado Springs, Colorado)
    Defense Command and served as the lead for ground-based interceptors while the Air Force led the space-based elements of the program. Following the creation...
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    ballistic-missile test". Flight global. Retrieved September 12, 2009. "Ground based interceptor Arrow-2". Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance. Archived from the...
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