Rafferty Calls for Broader Army Missile Defeat Strategy Beyond Interceptors
Gen. John Rafferty said the Army needs cheaper, non-kinetic options and faster targeting to protect limited interceptor stocks, citing rising strain on air defenses.
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A U.S. think tank has warned that the United States, whose interceptor missile stockpiles have rapidly dwindled due to the war with Iran, could suffer a severe strategic defeat if it enters into a prolonged military conflict with China. According to the Heritage Foundation, a conservative U.S. think tank, on the 12th (local time), Senior Fellow Jim Payne released a report on the 4th titled "Restocking Theater Missile Defense: Insufficient for a …
(Washington = Yonhap News) Correspondent Park Sung-min = Facing a sharp decline in interceptor missile inventories due to the war with Iran, the United States faces a strategic defeat in the event of a conflict with China...
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Rafferty calls for broader Army missile defeat strategy beyond interceptors
HUNTSVILLE, AL -- Army Space and Missile Defense Command chief Lt. Gen. John Rafferty is calling for a comprehensive missile defeat strategy that couples a larger mix of interceptors with electronic warfare, directed energy and faster targeting and command-and-control capabilities, arguing kinetic weapons alone cannot meet growing air and missile defense demands. “Interceptors alone won’t do it,” Rafferty, who took command of SMDC in late April,…
Army needs ‘comprehensive missile defeat strategy’ to address air defense challenges
“We need a more comprehensive missile defeat strategy that focuses on interceptors, [but also] equally so on non-kinetic effects, both electronic warfare and directed energy, and the type of targeting in C2 … that will enable us to use that data to make decisions to engage targets faster,” said SMD head Lt. Gen. John Rafferty.
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