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* [[Kinetic Energy Interceptor]] (KEI) – In December 2003, MDA awarded a contract to [[Northrop Grumman]] for developing and testing. It will have to be launched from a location not too far from the launch site of the target missile (and is therefore less suitable against large countries), it has to be fired very soon after launch of the target, and it has to be very fast itself (6 km/s). In 2009, the Department of Defense and MDA determined the technological issues were excessive and cancelled the program, allocating no funding for it in its later budget submission.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/budget/fy2010/dod/rdte-mda-interceptors.pdf |title=Kinetic Energy Interceptors Program Element 0603886C Budget Item Justification |date=May 2009}}</ref> | * [[Kinetic Energy Interceptor]] (KEI) – In December 2003, MDA awarded a contract to [[Northrop Grumman]] for developing and testing. It will have to be launched from a location not too far from the launch site of the target missile (and is therefore less suitable against large countries), it has to be fired very soon after launch of the target, and it has to be very fast itself (6 km/s). In 2009, the Department of Defense and MDA determined the technological issues were excessive and cancelled the program, allocating no funding for it in its later budget submission.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/budget/fy2010/dod/rdte-mda-interceptors.pdf |title=Kinetic Energy Interceptors Program Element 0603886C Budget Item Justification |date=May 2009}}</ref> | ||
* [[Boeing YAL-1]] Airborne Laser (ABL) – Team ABL proposed and won the contract for this system in 1996. A high-energy laser mounted on a converted 747 airliner was used to intercept a test target in January 2010,<ref name="ABL_2010_test">[http://www.mda.mil/news/gallery_abl.html Airborne Laser (ABL) 2010] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100128055002/http://www.mda.mil/news/gallery_abl.html |date=2010-01-28 }}. US Missile Defense Agency, January 10, 2010. Retrieved: January 25, 2010.</ref> and the following month, successfully destroyed two test missiles.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1111660620100212?type=marketsNews|title=U.S. successfully tests airborne laser on missile|publisher= | * [[Boeing YAL-1]] Airborne Laser (ABL) – Team ABL proposed and won the contract for this system in 1996. A high-energy laser mounted on a converted 747 airliner was used to intercept a test target in January 2010,<ref name="ABL_2010_test">[http://www.mda.mil/news/gallery_abl.html Airborne Laser (ABL) 2010] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100128055002/http://www.mda.mil/news/gallery_abl.html |date=2010-01-28 }}. US Missile Defense Agency, January 10, 2010. Retrieved: January 25, 2010.</ref> and the following month, successfully destroyed two test missiles.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1111660620100212?type=marketsNews|title=U.S. successfully tests airborne laser on missile|publisher=Reuters|date=Feb 12, 2010}}</ref> While the program has been cancelled due to concerns about its practicality with present technology (while successful the system was still extremely short ranged, likely needing to fly in heavily defended space to make an interception) the YAL-1 served to demonstrate the potential of such a system. The capabilities of being deployed rapidly to any part of the world and of intercepting a large number of missiles would make a future system extremely attractive. | ||
* [[Network Centric Airborne Defense Element]] (NCADE) – On September 18, 2008 Raytheon announced it had been awarded a $10 million contract to continue research and development of NCADE, a missile defense system based on the [[AIM-120 AMRAAM]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://raytheon.mediaroom.com/index.php?item=1080 |title=Raytheon Awarded $10 million to Develop New Missile Defense Interceptor |date=Sep 18, 2008 |publisher=Raytheon}}</ref> | * [[Network Centric Airborne Defense Element]] (NCADE) – On September 18, 2008 Raytheon announced it had been awarded a $10 million contract to continue research and development of NCADE, a missile defense system based on the [[AIM-120 AMRAAM]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://raytheon.mediaroom.com/index.php?item=1080 |title=Raytheon Awarded $10 million to Develop New Missile Defense Interceptor |date=Sep 18, 2008 |publisher=Raytheon}}</ref> | ||
One can distinguish disabling the warheads and just disabling the boosting capability. The latter has the risk of "shortfall": damage in countries between the launch site and the target location. | One can distinguish disabling the warheads and just disabling the boosting capability. The latter has the risk of "shortfall": damage in countries between the launch site and the target location. | ||