Adaptive preferential employment of interceptors in midcourse ballistic missile defense is considered. The defense discriminates decoys, with such discrimination characterized by a K-factor, and determines optimal intercepts and salvo structure in shoot-look-shoot scenarios. The attacker's strategy to determine proper allocation of warheads to targets of varying value in the presence of a defen...

An active defense against an incoming missile requires information of it, including a guidance law parameter and first-order lateral time constant. To this end, assuming that with proportional navigation (PN) attempts to attack aerial target bang-bang evasive maneuvers, identification model based on the gated recurrent unit (GRU) neural network is built in paper. The analytic solutions for cons...

Future Japanese assessments and decisions regarding ballistic missile defense will be heavily influenced by the interests, calculations, and relationships existing among a wide variety of domestic actors. In considering whether and how to proceed with BMD development, procurement, and deployment, these actors will most likely focus on several key issues. This chapter identifies and discusses th...

Poland has traditionally been considered one of the European states most supportive U.S. foreign policy, including security policy. Therefore, it seemed natural to establish a long-term partnership with United States in development missile defense capabilities on continent. This article examines U.S.-Polish relations politico-military sphere, specifically problem deployment system territory Rep...