U.S. Recent Plans in National Air Defense: The East Asia Dimension

... defense architecture is gradually built around nodal components, some of which cover East Asia. The Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMWS) is based on radar systems... ... total number of SM-3 interceptors of different versions is 265 with more than a thousand SM-6 interceptors for destroying targets in the atmosphere at a distance of up... ... reconnaissance system, and the JORN over-the-horizon radar. * * * Almost 17 years ago, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov pointed out that the intensive deployment of...