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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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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Minotaur-C (section Ground-Based Interceptor)
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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Anti-ballistic missile (redirect from Interceptor missile)
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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Strategic Defense Initiative (redirect from Space-Based Interceptor)
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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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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December 2014, Congress approved $50 million to increase the number of interceptor missiles at Fort Greely from 26 to 40 as part of a missile-defense expansion...
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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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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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An interceptor aircraft, or simply interceptor, is a type of fighter aircraft designed specifically for the defensive interception role against an attacking...
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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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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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Lockheed Martin (category Companies based in Bethesda, Maryland)
Block III, hypersonic weapons and transport layer programs and the Ground-Based Interceptor. In 2024, 73% of the company's revenue came from the federal government...
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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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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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(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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"Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD)". Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance. January 31, 2019. Retrieved 18 April 2024. "Ground-based Interceptor (GBI)"...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Missile defense (section Aegis-based system)
system consisted of 13 ground-based interceptors (GBIs) at Fort Greely, Alaska, plus two interceptors at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. The US planned...
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altitude, which requires the interceptor to travel into space to achieve the intercept. These missiles can be land-based or sea-based, and most proposed programs...
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