Topic: Riki Ellison

This achievement affirms the current technology to track and discriminate a warhead with countermeasures and decoys of future ballistic missile configurations

BMD Watch: Test boosts tracking radars Jul 22, 2008

This is much more now known throughout the world that we have this capability

U.S. takes down satellite with single shot Feb 22, 2008

Throughout the past 25 years, missile defense has been perceived and considered a Republican platform position. Now the Democratic majority in Congress is challenging this perception and reality

BMD Focus: A good year -- Part 1 Dec 26, 2007

Not only can the AIM-9X terminate missiles in the boosting phase, it is also effective in the descent and terminal phase of a ballistic missile. This missile defense system is called the Network Centric Airborne Defense Element -- NCADE -- and can be used on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles -- UAVs -- and current and future U.S. aircraft such as the F-15, F-16, F/A-18, F-22, and F-35, as well as aircraft of other countries

BMD Watch: NCADE breakthrough Dec 06, 2007

Yesterday in the skies over New Mexico, a U.S. Air Force F-16 fighter launched two air-to-air (AIM-9X) missiles and successfully intercepted a boosting rocket launched from the White Sands Missile Range, marking the first time a missile defense intercept was made from an air-based platform

BMD Watch: NCADE breakthrough Dec 06, 2007