Air & missile defense
The Pentagon is quietly working to set up an elaborate network of defenses to protect American cities from a barrage of Russian cruise missiles.The plan calls for buying radars that would enable National Guard F-16 fighter jets to spot and shoot down fast and low-flying missiles. Top generals want to network those radars with sensor-laden aerostat balloons hovering over U.S. cities and with coastal warships equipped with sensors and interceptor missiles of their own.
Air & missile defense
Army tests network-centric missile defense platform
The Army has successfully completed an intercept test at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, using the integrated air and missile defense battle command system (IBCS), an enterprise-focused open-systems architecture developed with Northrop Grumman.
The flight test, held May 28, involved a ballistic missile acting as a threat surrogate directed at a defended asset. Using data from a Patriot radar unit, IBCS engagement operations centers established a composite track on the missile, deemed it a threat and commanded two Patriot PAC-2 interceptor missiles to destroy it.
The Pentagon is quietly working to set up an elaborate network of defenses to protect American cities from a barrage of Russian cruise missiles.The plan calls for buying radars that would enable National Guard F-16 fighter jets to spot and shoot down fast and low-flying missiles. Top generals want to network those radars with sensor-laden aerostat balloons hovering over U.S. cities and with coastal warships equipped with sensors and interceptor missiles of their own.
