Okinawa Decision Has Missile Defense Element

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David A. Fulghum, Okinawa Decision Has Missile Defense Element. Aviation Week, May 25, 2010.
http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story_channel.jsp?channel=defense&id=news/asd/2010/05/25/01.xml&headline=Okinawa%20Decision%20Has%20Missile%20Defense%20Element

My comment:
(a) Active electronically scanned array (AESA) is a type of phased array radar; AESAs allow ships and aircraft to broadcast powerful radar signals while still remaining stealthy. Wikipedia.

Raytheon's AESA Combat Aircraft Radars. Raytheon, Mar. 25, 2010.
www.raytheon.com/businesses/rtnwcm/groups/sas/documents/content/rtn_b_sas_broc_aesa.pdf - 2010-03-25

(b) AIM-120 AMRAAM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIM-120_AMRAAM
(variants include AIM-120C-4/5/6/7, AIM-120D)

(c)
(i) Network Centric Airborne Defense Element
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Centric_Airborne_Defense_Element
(The NCADE system is a boost phase interceptor based heavily on the AIM-120 AMRAAM, with the AMRAAM fragmentation warhead replaced by a hit-to-kill vehicle)

(ii) NCADE Network Centric Airborne Defense Element. Raytheon, undated.
http://www.raytheon.com/newsroom/rtnwcm/groups/rms/documents/content/rtn_rms_ncade_07-09_datasheet.pdf

(d) In "Florida ANG’s 125th Fighter Wing" the ANG stands for Air National Guard the article mentions a paragraph earlier.

(e) Regarding APG-82(V)4 and APG-63(V)3 radars, see

List of radars
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_radars
("From February 1943 the US used a universal system to identify radar variants, consisting of three letters and a number, respectively designating platform, type of equipment, function, and version. This system was continued after WWII with multiservice designations being prefixed by 'AN/' for Army-Navy"; consult the following table)

(f) The article quotes Major Todd Giggy as saying, "We’re embracing an air-launched concept for theater ballistic missile defense." So far, US has sea-based (aegis) and land-based* missile defense.

* RIM-174 Standard ERAM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIM-174_Standard_ERAM
(also known as Standard Missile 6 (SM-6), surface-to-air; a missile that has just gone into production)

However, the air-launched missile is used to intercept an  anti-ship missile--rather than cruise or ballistic missile--in (mid-phase) flight.


------------------Separately
China Flies Towards World Domination. Strategy Page, May 25, 2010.
http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htworld/articles/20100525.aspx

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