Upgrade : US to modernise missile defense

It sounds like a re-edition of the star war programme, SDI, launched by the then-US President Ronald Reagan in front of a good 35 years. But in fact the new U.S. strategy on missile defense, presented by Donald Trump on Thursday at the Pentagon in Washington, the maximum SDI Light. Adversaries and "rogue regimes" around the world, their missile arsenals built up steadily and concentrated on the development of long-range missiles that could reach targets in the United States. The fact America had to respond, Trump said at the Pentagon.

He had given at the beginning of his tenure in the military, an analysis of the threat situation in order. This part of the Pentagon paper's is now little surprising: a source of danger, according to the military, especially from Russia and China, but also increasingly from North Korea and Iran.

Sensors and drones

the core of the new defense program, Sensors, and drones, which are placed in the space, in order to identify enemy missiles faster. "In space-based Sensors, we need because they help in the alert, the path calculation and the assessment of the missiles shortly after the Start," said a Pentagon staff journalists in advance. It is planned to continue the Expansion of the ground-based interceptor missiles.

the completion of The Pentagon report had not been delayed by almost a year, because it only to analyze the threat posed by ballistic missiles, but also scenarios with new weapons systems should be included. Some of them had presented to the Russian President Vladimir Putin in March of last year in a speech to the Nation. With complex Computer simulations, Putin presented at the time of the Intercontinental rocket "RS 28 Sarmat". Their engines have such a short duration of burning, said the Russian President at the time, that she was hardly intercept. The new Russian Arsenal of nuclear missiles, to include Intercontinental range, with hypersonic, around 20 times the speed of sound – fly. The Other were already tested cruise missile with a nuclear drive.

memory of the star war

These systems had been developed "as a reaction to the unilateral withdrawal of the United States from the Treaty on missile defense," Putin said at the time. It's part of the Ritual of the two pages, the own upgrading as a response to new weapons of the other side. None of these Russian weapons, Putin said a year ago, could be intercepted with previously available means. Some were already in service.

In the new US plans, it is not necessary to intercept weapons in space station, was quoted by the TV channel CNN, in advance, an anonymous Pentagon employee. The US President Ronald Reagan in 1983, was, as he introduced the Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI). They became known as the star war program in the history. According to these plans use a tiered System of lasers and kinetic weapons in all spheres, on land, at sea should be trapping in the air and in the All - Soviet missiles. Until the end of the Cold war, many billions have been invested in the project, without the objectives of the SDI program.

Without control

parts of it were then jr under presidents Clinton and Bush. . Up to the terrorist attacks of September 11. September 2001 contract limited the development of new defense systems. The United States and the Soviet Union had committed themselves, inter alia, to limit themselves to two positions with 100 missiles and associated radar equipment. After the attacks on New York's World Trade Center, the United States withdrew unilaterally from the Treaty, with the stated aim of developing new systems. There are currently no arms-control agreement of such plans.

was closed As of the Anti-ballistic missile Treaty (ABM) in 1972, there were only two powers that have Intercontinental missiles. Meanwhile, it has also China. Beijing announced recently that they had now about hypersonic weapons. North Korea has tested 2018 long-range missiles, and Iran is on the verge of. Also on these threats, the Pentagon Report is expected to be an answer.

Vladimir Putin, Russia proclaimed the successful Test of a new hypersonic rocket

The plans for missile defense are associated with the establishment of a new class, announced by Trump in the last year: a Space Force should be set up, the add to join to army, Navy, naval infantry (Marines) and air force. Trump had previously announced that money will be deployed in Alaska and California station systems ground expand based missiles.