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The Missile Defense Agency is a component of the United States Department of Defense responsible for developing a comprehensive defense against ballistic missiles. It had its origins in the Strategic
THAAD Anti-ballistic missile launcher
Arrow 3 is an exoatmospheric hypersonic anti-ballistic missile, jointly funded, developed and produced by Israel and the United States.
MIM-104 Patriot surface-to-air missile (SAM) with anti-ballistic missile capabilities.
James Alan Abrahamson
Ground-Based Midcourse Defense, previously National Missile Defense, is an anti-ballistic missile system implemented by the United States of America for defense against ballistic missiles, during the
Missile Defense Agency
…or wholly responsible for the development of several ballistic missile defense (BMD) systems, including the Patriot PAC-3, Aegis BMD, THAAD and the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense system with a cost of $246 billion. It also has led the development of numerous other projects, including the Multiple Kill Vehicle and the newer…
A Ground-Based Interceptor loaded into a silo at Fort Greely, Alaska in July 2004.
Prototype of the Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle
Sea-based X-band Radar platform arriving in Pearl Harbor in January 2006.