Interceptor shield

Source San Francisco Chronicle

Interview
Ellison is campaigning for the government to create a full-fledged missile defense system. It’s a controversial proposition that he contends with evangelical zeal is the best way to protect the United States in an era when more countries can get their hands on missiles and nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. Terrorist groups also dream of getting such weapons.
Still trim and fit at age 44, although he admits his surgically repaired knees can ache and creak, Ellison is the founder, president and chief promoter of the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance. The 4,500-member group, one of thousands of organizations large and small pitching a rainbow of causes in Washington, is the product of Ellison’s 22-year obsession with missile defense, born out of former President Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative in 1983, which critics dubbed “Star Wars.”

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March 16, 2005
Source NATO

Press release

NATO’s Theatre Missile Defence (TMD) Programme has reached a key milestone in Alliance efforts to field an Active Layered Theatre Ballistic Missile Defence (ALTBMD) capability by 2010.
As a practical example of the ongoing transformation of NATO’s military capabilities, on 11 March 2005 the North Atlantic Council approved the Charter for the ALTBMD Programme Management Organisation (PMO). This decision launched the Alliance’s ALTBMD Programme, which will provide protection against the threat of ballistic missiles to our soldiers deployed on NATO missions.
The importance of being able to defend deployed troops against theatre-range ballistic missiles, such as SCUD missiles, was made apparent during the 1990s. As a number of foreign nations continue working on ballistic missile programmes, as well as developing chemical, nuclear, and biological warheads for those missiles, the need for effective defences has increased.
To counter this threat, NATO has, for the past several years, worked to design a battle management system for theatre missile defences. The system will be able to integrate different TMD systems (such as PATRIOT, the NATO MEADS system, SAMP-T) into a single coherent, deployable defensive network able to give layered protection against incoming ballistic missiles.
The detailed specifications of the NATO system were agreed by Defence Ministers in Istanbul last June. With the approval of the Charter, the NAC has formally established the TMD Programme Office, paving the way for the financing and purchase of the NATO TMD system.
The launch of the TMD program is the result of a decade of work by NATO in the theatre missile defence area, and provided to the Alliance a new collective capability for common defence.

Friday March 18, 2005

Ukraine Dealers Said To Smuggle Missiles
Source guardian.co.uk
The Associated Press reported exclusively Feb. 4 that a government investigation into lucrative illicit weapons sales by officials loyal to former President Leonid Kuchma, who left office in January, had led to secret indictments or arrests of at least six arms dealers accused of selling missiles to Iran and China.
Twelve of the missiles went to Iran and six to China, Prosecutor General Svyatoslav Piskun’s office said Friday. The Kh55 cruise missiles have a range of 1,860 miles.

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Saturday the 19, 2005
Pakistan Test-Fires Nuclear-Capable Missile
Source Reuters

A military statement said Pakistan had informed neighbouring countries beforehand about the test — a practice also observed by rival India, which regularly tests its own nuclear-capable missiles.
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Source U.S. Department of Defense

News Story March 17, 2005
By Sgt. 1st Class Doug Sample, USA
American Forces Press Service

Appearing before the House Armed Services Committee, Air Force Lt. Gen. Henry A. Obering III, director of the Missile Defense Agency, told lawmakers the billion-dollar request will help his agency further develop and field a joint, integrated, multi-layered ballistic defense system.

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Boeing Wins Airborne Laser Defense Contract
Source U.S. Department of Defense

Press release No. 246-05 March 11, 2005
The Boeing Co. of Seattle, Wash., is being awarded a Cost Plus Award Fee - Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract to develop, integrate, and test adjunct mission capabilities for the Airborne Laser program. The basic contract ceiling is $300,000,000; the first delivery order value is $38,103,108. For the initial delivery order, the contractor shall conduct requirements development and initial design activity for selected adjunct missions. The Airborne Laser System Program Office is the contract activity (FA8632-05-D-2451).

Admiral Paige Appointed Director, mission readiness at MDA
Source Missile Defense Agency (MDA)
Press Release March 10, 2005

Air force Lieutenant General Henry “Trey” Obering, Missile Defence Agency director, today announced that he has assigned Rear Admiral Kathleen Paige additional duties as the Agency Director, Mission Readiness. Admiral Paige, who is also the Program Director of the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense Program, assumes the responsibilities immediately.

As the Director, Mission Readiness, RADM Paige will ensure that the Agency provides our military and civilian leaders with a system that is ready to conduct its ballistic missile defense mission when called upon. Accordingly she will have full authority to draw upon all MDA organizations for assistance and support. Ground Based Midcourse Defense and its flight test program will be her primary focus. For at least the next six months. She will report directly to Lieutenant General Obering.

She will continue to maintain her position as Program Director of Aegis BMD which recently scored its fifth Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) intercept in six attempts.

This newest model is the PAC-3 missile launcher system, right now it has a temp skin but I will soon be giving it a better skin job. But the skin on it right now is ok for testing and such. I am right now working on the PAC-3 missile for the launcher.
Here are some pictures of the Launcher model at different angels.

The North Korean government has threatened to resume tests of its long range Missiles, saying it is no longer bound to an 1999 moratorium on missile testing, reached when it was in non-proliferation talks with the administration of then president Bill Clinton. This threat was not included in the English translation of the press release but is included in the original version. Related News Articles