On the other hand, the new authority of $3,825 million proposed for missile procurement ( excluding research and construction ) in 1961 is $581 million higher than for 1960.

The substantial progress being made in ballistic missile technology is rapidly shifting the main threat from manned bombers to missiles.

Research, development test and evaluation funds, devoted to missiles in 1960 were 3 to 4 times as large as those devoted to aircraft, and actual missile procurement is expected to exceed aircraft procurement by 1963.

Nuclear weapons are fearsome, but the long-range ballistic missile gives them a stealth and merciless swiftness which is much more terrifying.

We must make certain that the aircraft is finished before we give the entire job to the missile.

One must first detect a fleeting mobile or moving target, decide that it is worthy of destruction, select the missile to be fired against the target, compute ballistics for the flight, and prepare the missile for firing.

Here then is our problem: aircraft are vital to winning a war today because they can perform those missions which a missile is totally incapable of performing ; ;

but the airfield, on which the aircraft is completely dependent, is doomed by the missile.

This is the point on which so many people have written off the aircraft in favor of the missile.

There is little enthusiasm for spending money to develop more powerful engines because of the erroneous belief that the aircraft has been made obsolete by the missile.

Even if this is some day possible, there remains the 30-minute time of flight of a missile to its overseas target.

If the target can change its position significantly during the 30 minutes the missile is in the air on its way, the probability of the missile destroying the target is drastically reduced.

Add also a comparatively primitive industrial plant which would severely limit our capacity to keep abreast of the Soviets even in the missile field which is reputed to be our main strength.

Now a quiet-spoken, middle-aged man, Fiedler is an aeronautical engineer for Lockheed's Missiles and Space Division at Sunnyvale, where he played a key role in the development of the Navy's Polaris missile.

In addition, disclosures that missile workers were earning sums far in excess of what is paid for equivalent work elsewhere provoked his indignation on behalf of the American taxpayer who was footing the bill.

There would seem to be some small solace in the prospect that the missile race between nations is at the same time accelerating the study of the space around us, giving us a long-sought ladder from which to peer at alien regions.

* 2002 – A Russian Mil Mi-26 helicopter carrying troops is hit by a Chechen missile outside of Grozny, killing 118 soldiers.

A RIM-161 Standard Missile 3 anti-ballistic missile is launched from USS Shiloh ( CG-67 ) | USS Shiloh, a US Navy Ticonderoga class cruiser | Ticonderoga-class cruiser.

An anti-ballistic missile ( ABM ) is a missile designed to counter ballistic missiles ( a missile for missile defense ).

Presently it is called A-135 and it uses two missile types, Gorgon and Gazelle.

India has a series of ballistic missiles called Agni, of which the latest is Agni-V. On 19 April 2012, India successfully test fired Agni-V, a three stage solid fueled missile, with a strike range of more than 8, 000 km.

China has reportedly entered into service the world's first anti-ship ballistic missile called DF-21D.

Starting from 1952, works were held in the Moscow-based Institute of Precision Mechanics and Computer Engineering ( headed by Sergei Lebedev ) on automated missile defense system which used a " computer network " which calculated radar data on test missiles through central machine called M-40 and was interchanging information with smaller remote terminals about 100 — 200 kilometers distant.

Systems using non-obvious approaches might be able to blind the radars in a sneak attack ; the Soviets developed the R-36 with a system called Fractional Orbital Bombardment System to allow attacks on US missile fields from low altitudes and / or from the south, while the US relied on manned bombers for the same role.

By 1987, the SDIO had developed a national missile defense concept called the Strategic Defense System Phase I Architecture.

In his 1991 State of the Union Address George H. W. Bush shifted the focus of SDI from defense of North America against large scale strikes to a system focusing on theater missile defense called Global Protection Against Limited Strikes ( GPALS ).

A quasi ballistic missile ( also called a semi ballistic missile ) is a category of missile that has a low trajectory and / or is largely ballistic but can perform maneuvers in flight or make unexpected changes in direction and range.

Initially called the " Redstone-S ", where the S meant solid propellant, the name was changed to the Pershing missile.

In 1996 BAe and Matra Defense agreed to merge their missile businesses into a joint venture called Matra BAe Dynamics.

The proposed use for nuclear-powered ramjets would be to power a cruise missile, called SLAM, for Supersonic Low Altitude Missile.

The original mission of BMDO was comparable to that of SAFEGUARD, which was to defend U. S. ballistic missile sites, but BMDO additionally had the more general role of conducting research and development in advanced ballistic missile defense ( BMD ) technology and also managed what was then called the Kwajalein Missile Range ( KMR ).

Anti-aircraft missiles are variously called surface-to-air missile, abbreviated and pronounced " SAM " and Surface to Air Guided Weapon ( SAGW ).

It is typically surrounded by a large safety area, often called a rocket range or missile range.

In May 2007, a new ICBM, called the RS-24 has been tested and launched there, and is seen as eventually replacing the aging RS-18s and RS-20s that are the backbone of Russia's missile forces.

" In US naval slang, ballistic missile submarines are called boomers.

The Titan I HGM-25A, initially called the SM-68 – originally it was the XB-68 before the Air Force began designating missiles as SM for strategic missile and TM for tactical missiles.

Additionally, the plan also called for the development of an entirely new missile, which would emerge as the MGM-134 Midgetman.

The new ICBM missile was originally planned to be called " Peacemaker ", but at the last minute was officially designated the LGM-118A Peacekeeper.

The missile strikes began three days after Clinton was called to testify before a grand jury during the Lewinsky scandal and his subsequent nationally televised address later that evening in which Clinton admitted having an inappropriate relationship.

In The American President, Andrew Shepherd finds himself in the Situation Room having to order such an attack against Libya's intelligence HQ after they bombed something called " C-STAD " ( Capricorn Surface-To-Air Defense, a missile defense system ) which had been positioned by the U. S. in Israel.

Gen. Mohammad Hejazi, chief of the Guards ' joint staff, called the missile tests a " defensive measure against invasions.