BMD EUROPEAN CAPABILITY

Abstract

The European Component (EC) of the layered Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) was planned to expand our BMDS capability to defend the Homeland, Allies and deployed forces in Europe from limited Iranian long-range threats by establishing both an Interceptor Site and a Midcourse Radar site in Europe. The European Interceptor Site (EIS) was planned as a United States (U.S.) facility on foreign soil, supported by a European Sensor Sites (ESS), also planned as a United States (US) facility in Europe. Both the EIS and ESS would interface with US command and control nodes in Europe and CONUS through upgrades to US communications at Ramstein Air Base (AB), Germany. The Command and Control communications interface upgrades planned for Europe were known as the European Communications Interface (ECI). The EC also was to include sustainment for fielded assets. On September 17, 2009 the President of the United States announced changes which replaced the EC program architecture with the Phased Adaptive Approach (PAA). The Phased Adaptive Approach (PAA) was developed in response to the rapid proliferation of short and medium range ballistic missiles in Iran and the threat they pose to U.S. Allies and partners, as well as to U.S. deployed personnel and their accompanying families in the Middle East and in Europe. By leveraging recent advances in sensor and interceptor technologies, the United States will aggressively counter this growing regional threat with a more powerful and agile system. The United States is pursuing a four phased approach which will provide a more effective missile defense capability for defense of NATO territories and enhance U.S. homeland defense. It will be complementary of and interoperable with those being developed by NATO, be applicable in other theaters around the world, and will be adaptable and flexible in order to counter threat advances and provide increased defended areas over time. The initial phase includes the deployment of current and proven missile defense, including the sea-based Aegis Weapons System, the SM-3 interceptor (Block IA), and sensors such as the forward-based Army Navy/Transportable Radar Surveillance system (AN/TPY-2). Subsequent phases will be implemented based on technical maturity, appropriate testing, and threat driven requirements.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2012
• Source ID: 0603911C_4_0400_PB_2012
• Service Agency Name: Missile Defense Agency

Entities

Organizations

• Missile Defense Agency

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Advanced Electronics
• Sensors
• Space
• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Ballistic Missiles
• Command And Control
• Cost Analysis
• Defense Systems
• Energy Management
• Ground Based
• Homeland Defense
• Kill Vehicles
• Medium Range Ballistic Missiles
• Middle East
• Prototypes
• Site Selection
• Sites
• Test And Evaluation
• United States
• Verification Tests

Readers

• International Relations and European Studies
• Missile Defense Systems.

Technology Areas

• Fully Networked C3
• Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control